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 (1918–1966), the distinguished radio dramatist who wrote over 60 scripts for BBC radio and television between 1949 and 1966.[1]
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.
List of winners
1978
John Arden — Pearl (Published separately as per special arrangement with Eyre Methuen)[2]