BBC Audio Drama Awards 2015

E V Crowe has been awarded the 2015 Imison Award for her radio play, HOW TO SAY GOODBYE PROPERLY, which originally went out on BBC Radio 4 last August.

Lucy has lived on army bases all her life. Arriving at the latest base is only bearable because her father, Martin, has sworn that he’ll just be doing a desk role and then leaving the Army. Lucy really needs him to leave: she’s had enough of changing schools and the pressure means she’s starting to experience stress-related symptoms. Lucy's Mother has developed her own unusual coping mechanisms. Then Martin drops his bombshell: he’s actually going to Mali for six months as a UN Peacekeeper. In desperation, Lucy turns to the Military Families’ Deployment Guide to find ways to help her family, but every piece of advice she follows goes wrong.

You can listen to a clip of How To Say Goodbye Properly by clicking here, and read the script here.

John Finnemore was also awarded the prize for Best Scripted Comedy with a Studio Audience for John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme, which he wrote and was produced by Ed Morrish, a BBC Radio Comedy for Radio 4.