Radio Award (1968-)
Subcategory of AWGIE Awards
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Notes

  • Awarded in several sub-categories which have varied over the life of the Awards. Regular awards are given for an original work and an adaptation. In early years, Awards were offered for a Radio Feature and a Radio Play.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2016

winner (Original) form y separately published work icon Happy Monday Richie Black , Sydney : ABC Radio National , 2015 10271999 2015 single work radio play

'Ariel and Pete have a bond—they’re both aspiring writers stuck in retail advertising.

'They spend their days signing off proofs, checking terms and conditions, and putting adjectives in front of the word 'sale'.

'Only the Gmail chats they share give their lives any meaning.

'But will Ariel’s desperate attempt to assert her creativity in this moribund world finally split them apart?'

Source: Radio National (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/radiotonic/happymonday/6986620).

winner (Adaptation) form y separately published work icon Spirit Donna Abela , Perth : 89.7FM , 2015 10272372 2015 single work radio play

Year: 2015

winner (Original Broadcast) form y separately published work icon Like a Writing Desk Aden Rolfe , ( dir. Aden Rolfe et. al. )agent Australia : Australian Broadcasting Corporation , 2014 8889006 2014 single work radio play

'Are crows smarter than chimpanzees? Can they solve riddles? And why exactly is a raven like a writing desk? This dark comedy profiles Bella Radcliffe, a curator assembling an exhibition entitled ‘True Crow’, alongside Charles and Grace Brenner, a young couple whose house is being overrun by a flock of crows. Their stories are linked not just by the presence of these birds, but by that of Derek Castenada, Bella’s keynote speaker. A self-styled crow-chaser, Derek offers to augur a solution to the Brenners’ problem, but he’s soon gone missing, on the trail of the mythical crow-child, Reagan Ayres. The drama culminates in the opening night of ‘True Crow’, as we await Derek’s triumphal – or tragic – return.'

Source: ABC website (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/radiotonic/like-a-writing-desk/5481664). (Sighted: 14/9/2015)

Year: 2014

winner (Original Broadcast) form y separately published work icon My Life in Cookbooks Noëlle Janaczewska , Australia : ABC Radio National , 2013 7799413 2013 single work radio play

'According to playwright Noëlle Janaczewska, cooking just might be Australia’s favourite sport. Complete with star players, teams of highly trained professionals, enthusiastic amateurs, and masses of spectators. TV food programs proliferate; Nigella and Jamie are household names; all of us eat and most of us cook. But how do you approach it? Did you learn it at your mother’s knee, do you avoid it, embrace it, enjoy it or find it a chore? And what part might cookbooks play in the whole exercise?

'My Life in Cookbooks blends cultural features, interviews, quotations, soundscapes, music, humour, and philosophical reflection with an essayistic personal voice. Although it acknowledges our fascination with phenomena like MasterChef and Jamie’s 30–Minute Meals (the fastest–selling non-fiction book of all time, apparently), it charts an altogether more idiosyncratic and unexpected course. It interrogates the stories behind our cookbooks to explore the associations and the emotions they arouse in us.'

Source: Radio National.

Year: 2012

winner (Adaptation) form y separately published work icon Aurora's Lament Donna Abela , Australia : ABC Radio National , 2011 Z1841171 2011-2012 single work radio play

Year: 2011

winner (Original) form y separately published work icon The Clerk Ascending Gina Schien , 2010 Australia : ABC Radio National , 2010 Z1826992 2010 single work radio play fantasy 'Bill Erdman works at 'Long and Associates'. He's a good employee but he does have a rather unique problem. His colleagues are aware of his 'situation' and do their best not to aggravate Bill's already embarrassing problem of floating to the ceiling should anyone say the word trombone. The only problem is no-one told new employee Andrew Jones.' (ABC Radio National website)
winner (Adaptation) form y separately published work icon King Tide Katherine Thomson , 2011 Australia : ABC Radio National , 2011 Z1828236 2011 single work radio play '... set somewhere on the coast of New South Wales during the Howard era and post the Iraq invasion. The central character is Sal, a once high-profile journalist who has retreated from the world after the death of her son in a surfing accident. Living with her daughter Beck at their beach shack, Sal now watches videos of the Iraq war protests over and over. Into this situation comes Taka, a mysterious Japanese backpacker and then Sal's wheeler-dealer brother Jack arrives with his new girlfriend Nat ... this radio version features the original stage cast ...' (ABC Radio National website)
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