The Giles Cooper Awards were honours given to plays written for BBC Radio. Sponsored by the BBC and Methuen Drama, the awards were specifically focused on the script of the best radio drama produced in the past year. Five or six winners were chosen from the entire year's production of BBC drama, and published in a series of books. They were named after Giles Cooper the distinguished Anglo-Irish radio dramatist who wrote over 60 scripts for BBC radio and television between 1949 and 1966.
3-507: These awards ran annually between 1978 and 1992, instigated by Richard Imison at the BBC and Geoffrey Strachan at Eyre Methuen . There was no prize money, but publication was a notable mark of permanence in the ephemeral world of broadcasting. 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 Richard Imison Richard Imison (31 October 1936 – 9 February 1993)
6-411: The production of drama for this genre. Richard Imison was key in setting up The Giles Cooper Awards in 1977, together with Geoffrey Strachan of the publishers Methuen. These lasted until the year after his death and were the premier celebration of dramatic writing for radio. They were named after the radio dramatist Giles Cooper whose work first appeared on BBC radio in 1949. After his death in 1993
9-525: Was Script Editor for BBC Radio Drama from 1963 to 1991. In the thirty years that Imison worked for BBC Radio Drama it was the largest patron of original creative dramatic writing in Britain. In his role as Script Editor no other single individual therefore had as much influence in either the discovery of new talent or the encouragement of established writers such as Edward Albee , Ludmilla Petrushevskaya , Alexander Gelman , Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett in
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