The Giles Cooper Awards were honors given to plays written for radio. Sponsored by the BBC and Methuen Drama, these prizes were specifically focused on the best radio drama produced in the past year. Winners were chosen from hundreds of entries, and published in a series of books. They were named after Giles Cooper (1918-1966) a radio dramatist who wrote over 60 scripts for BBC radio. Giles Stannus Cooper OBE ( 9 August 1918 - 2 December 1966) was a prolific Radio dramatist writing over sixty scripts for [1]
These awards were granted between 1978 and 1991, after which the program was discontinued.
List of Winners
1978
- Harris, Richard — Is it Something I Said?
- Haworth, Don — Episode on a Thursday Evening
- Hyem, Jill — Remember Me
- Mallin, Tom — Halt! Who Goes There?
- Phillips, Jennifer — Daughters of Men
- Weldon, Fay — Polaris
1979
- Gee, Shirley — Typhoid Mary
- Harrison, Carey — I Never Killed my German
- Keeffe, Barrie — Heaven Scent
- Kirkmorris, John — Coxcomb
- Peacock, John — Attard in Retirement
- Wymark, Olwen — The Child
1980
- Parker, Stewart — Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
- Read, Martyn — Waving to a Train
- Redgrave, Peter — Martyr of the Hives
- Trevor, William — Beyond the Pale
1981
- Barnes, Peter — The Jumping Minuses of Byzantium
- Haworth, Don — Talk of Love and War
- Pinter, Harold — Family Voices
- Pownall, David — Beef
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- Thain, Paul — The Biggest Sandcastle in the World
1982
- Adrian, Rhys — Watching the Plays Together
- Arden, John — The Old Man Sleeps Alone
- Barton, Harry — Hoopoe Day
- Chapman, Donald --Invisible writing
- Stoppard, Tom — The Dog it was that Died
- Trevor, William — Autumn Sunshine
1983
- Daly, Wally K. — Time Slip
- Gee, Shirley — Never in my Lifetime
- Jones, Gerry — The Angels They Grow Lonely
- May, Steve — No Exceptions
- Read, Martyn — Scouting for Boys
1984
- Dunstone, Stephen — Who is Sylvia?
- Ferguson, Robert — Transfigured Night
- Haworth, Don — Daybreak
- Phillips, Caryl — The Wasted Years
- Russell, Christopher — Swimmer
- Tremain, Rose — Temporary Shelter
1985
- Adrian, Rhys — Outpatient
- Collins, Barry — King Canute
- Crimp, Martin — Three Attempted Acts
- Pownall, David — Ploughboy Monday
- Saunders, James — Menocchio
- Wall, Michael — Hiroshima: the Movie
1986
- Ferguson, Robert — Dreams, Secrets, Beautiful Lies
- Reid, Christina — Last of a Dyin' Race
- Rissik, Andrew — Anthony
- Whitmore, Ken — Gingerbread House
- Windsor, Valerie — Myths and Legacies
1987
- Daly, Wally K. — Mary's
- Dunne, Frank — Dreams of Dublin Bay
- Fox, Anna — Nobby's Day
- Moffatt, Nigel D. John Arden (born 26 October 1930 is an award-winning English Playwright from Barnsley (which at the time was in the West Riding of Yorkshire Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE (born 3 July 1937 is a British Screenwriter playwright The Dog It Was That Died is a play by the British playwright Tom Stoppard. William Trevor, KBE (born 24 May 1928 is an Irish Short story writer novelist and playwright Wally K Daly (born c 1941 is an English writer for television and radio and one time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. Caryl Phillips (born 13 March 1958) is a British writer with a Caribbean background best known as a Novelist. Rose Tremain CBE (born August 2, 1943) is an English author Life Rose Tremain was born Rosemary Jane Thomson on August Martin Andrew Crimp, a British playwright was born on 14 February, 1956 in Dartford, Kent, Great Britain, son of John Crimp David Pownall (born 1938 is a critically acclaimed and prize-winning author of plays novels and short stories James Saunders ( 8 January 1925 — 29 January 2004) was a prolific English Playwright born in Islington, This article is for the British playwright For the hockey player see Michael Wall (hockey player. Ken Whitmore, born Hanley Staffordshire, December 22, 1937, is a prolific author of radio plays stage plays short stories and poetry Wally K Daly (born c 1941 is an English writer for television and radio and one time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. — Lifetime
- Nelson, Richard — Languages Spoken Here
- Tinniswood, Peter — The Village Fête
1988
- Frisby, Terence — Just Remember Two Things: It's not Fair and Don't be Late
- Blakeson, Ken — Excess Baggage
- Minghella, Anthony — Cigarettes and Chocolate
- Munro, Rona — Dirt Under the Carpet
- Sheasby, Dave — Apple Blossom Afternoon
1989
- Baines, Elizabeth — Baby Buggy
- Johnston, Jennifer — O Ananias, Azarias and Misael
- Mairowitz, David Zane — Stalin Sonata
- Nelson, Richard — Eating Words
- Warner, Craig — By Where The Old Shed Used To Be
1990
- Bagley, Tony — The Machine
- Cregan, David — A Butler Did It
- Fletcher, John — Death and the Tango
- Pepler, Tina — Song of the Forest
- Walker, Steve — The Pope's Brother
1991
- Glendinning, Robert — The Words are Strange
- Purser, John — Carver
- Stoppard, Tom — In the Native State
- Walker, Steve — Mickey Mookey
- Warner, Craig — Figure with Meat
References
- Methuen Drama
- Giles Cooper Awards
- Best Radio Plays of 1985 - The BBC Giles Cooper Award Winners
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