Julian Simpson wins the Tinniswood Award for FUGUE STATE

Writer and director Julian Simpson has won the Tinniswood Award 2016 for his audio drama, script Fugue State which aired on BBC Radio 4 in October:

In a specialist residential hospital in the heart of the English countryside a man, a government agent, is in a fugue state – a psychological shutdown – the result of something seemingly threatening that has taken place in a remote village. Needing to act before the situation escalates and believing that the patient can still hear, Doctor Fallon uses sound recordings to recreate events leading up to the point of shutdown, to prompt the patient’s brain into remembering what happened.

The original drama was inspired by a series of talks and workshops at the Wellcome Trust, based around the latest thinking on how the human brain processes a model of the world, which we call reality, based on sensory information and our prediction of what we are expecting to see, hear or feel.

Simpson was presented the award (organised by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and Society of Authors) at the annual BBC Audio Drama Awards ceremony, hosted by Sir Lenny Henry, at Broadcasting House in London on 31st January 2016. 

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