The Tinniswood Award was established by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and Society of Authors in memory of novelist, dramatist, scriptwriter and journalist Peter Tinniswood (pictured left) as well as to celebrate and encourage high standards in radio drama.
The Tinniswood Award is presented each year (at the BBC Audio Drama Awards) to the best original audio drama script of the year.
We are grateful to the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society for their sponsorship of the £3,000 prize.
Nominations for the 2025 Tinniswood Award will be open from the summer of 2024.
Full list of Tinniswood Award winners
2024 Cracking by Shôn Dale-Jones
2023 End of Transmission by Anita Sulivan
2022 Blis-ta by the late Sonya Hale
2021 Tristram Shandy: In Development by Christopher Douglas
2020 The Hartlepool Spy by Ian Martin
2019 When the Pips Stop by Oliver Emanuel
2018 Borderlands by Sarah Woods
2017 Comment is Free by James Fritz
2016 Fugue State by Julian Simpson
2015 Goodbye by Morwenna Banks
2014 Marathon Tales by Colin Teevan and Hannah Silva*
2012 Kafka the Musical by Murray Gold*
2011 Gerontius by Stephen Wyatt*
2009 Ivan and the Dogs by Hattie Naylor
2008 Goldfish Girl by Peter Souter
2007 Memorials to the Missing by Stephen Wyatt
2006 Not Talking by Mike Bartlett and To Be A Pilgrim by Rachel Joyce
2005 Beast by Nick Warburton
2004 Norman by Mike Stott
2003 Killing Maestros by Christopher William Hill
* these years had an extended submission period of 18 months (an extra six months) to coordinate with the BBC Audio Drama Awards.
Watch our video Twenty years of the Tinniswood Award
Listen to a podcast interview with two-time Tinniswood Award winner Stephen Wyatt (recorded in May 2012).