Giles Cooper Award winners
Best Radio Plays of 1978
Richard Harris: Is it Something I Said?
Don Haworth: Episode on a Thursday Evening
Jill Hyem: Remember Me
Tom Mallin: Halt! Who Goes There?
Jennifer Phillips: Daughters of Men
Fay Weldon: Polaris
Best Radio Plays of 1979
Shirley Gee: Typhoid Mary
Carey Harrison: I Never Killed my German
Barrie Keeffe: Heaven Scent
John Kirkmorris: Coxcomb
John Peacock: Attard in Retirement
Olwen Wymark: The Child
Best Radio Plays of 1980
Steward Parkeer: The Kamikaze Ground staff Reunion Dinner
Martyn Read: Waving to a Train
Peter Redgrove: Martyr of the Hives
William Trevor: Beyond the Pale
Best Radio Plays of 1981
Peter Barnes: The Jumping Mimuses of Byzantium
Don Haworth: Talk of Love and War
Harold Pinter: Family Voices
David Pownall: Beef
J. P. Rooney: The Dead Image
Paul Thain: The Biggest Sandcastle in the World
Best Radio Plays of 1982
Rhys Adrian: Watching the Plays Together
John Arden: The Old Man Sleeps Alone
Harry Barton: Hoopoe Day
Donald Chapman: Invisible Writing
Tom Stoppard: The Dog it was that Died
William Trevor: Autumn Sunshine
Best Radio Plays of 1983
Wally K. Daly: Time Slip
Shirley Gee: Never in my Lifetime
Gerry Jones: The Angels They Grow Lonely
Steve May: No Exceptions
Martyn Read: Scouting for Boys
Best Radio Plays of 1984
Stephen Dunstone: Who is Sylvia?
Robert Ferguson: Transfigured Night
Don Haworth: Daybreak
Caryl Phillips: The Wasted Years
Christopher Russell: Swimmer
Rose Tremain: Temporary Shelter
Best Radio Plays of 1985
Rhys Adrian: Outpatient
Barry Collins: King Canute
Martin Crimp: Three Attempted Acts
David Pownall: Ploughboy Monday
James Saunders: Menocchio
Michael Wall: Hiroshima: The Movie
Best Radio Plays of 1986
Robert Ferguson: Dreams, Secrets, Beautiful Lies
Christina Reid: The Last of a Dyin’ Race
Andrew Rissik: A Man Alone: Anthony
Ken Whitmore: The Gingerbread House
Valerie Windsor: Myths and Legacies
Best Radio Plays of 1987
Wally K. Daly: Mary’s
Frank Dunne: Dreams of Dublin Bay
Anna Fox: Nobby’s Day
Nigel D.Moffat: Lifetime
Richard Nelson: Languages Spoken Here
Peter Tinniswood: The Village Fete
Best Radio Plays of 1988
Ken Blakeson: Excess Baggage
Terence Frisby: Just Remembeer Two Things: It’s Not Fair and Don’t Be Late
Anthony Minghella: Cigarettes and Chocolate
Rona Munro: The Dirt under the Carpet
Dave Sheasby: Apple Blossom Afternoons
Best Radio Plays of 1989
Elizabeth Baines: The Baby Buggy
Jennifer Johnston: O Ananias, Azarias and Misael
David Zane Mairowitz: The Stalin Sonata
Richard Nelson: Eating Words
Craig Warner: By Where the Old Shed Used to Be
Best Radio Plays of 1990
Tony Bagley: The Machine
David Cregan: A butler Did It
John Fletcher:Death and the Tango
Tina Pepler: Song of the Forest
Steve Walker: The Pope’s Brother
Best Radio Plays of 1991
Robin Glendinning: The Words are Strange
John Purser: Carver
Tom Stoppard: In the Native State
Steve Walker: Mickey Mookey
Craig Warner: Figure with Meat