IRISH playwright Colin Teevan has won the Tinniswood Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2014.
The Dublin-born writer took the award for best Radio Drama Script, along with Hannah Silva, for Marathon Tales, a story based around Marathon runners from ancient and modern times.
Prizes from Sunday’s star-studded awards show – which celebrate the best in audio drama, on-air and online – were presented by the likes of dramatist Mark Ravenhill and acclaimed Irish actress Fiona Shaw.
Colin Teevan's The Kingdom ran at Soho Theatre in LondonThe ceremony was co-hosted by British actor Lenny Henry and Tony Hall at the corporation’s Broadcasting House in London.
Teevan's prize follows the playwright's 2012 project The Kingdom, which ran at London's Soho Theatre and received strong critical reviews.
The Kingdom was based on the Oedipus myth transferred on to the world of Irish emigrant workers in London in the second half of the twentieth century.
The BBC Audio Drama Awards cover audio dramas first broadcast in English in Britain between 1 October 2012 and 31 October 2013 – or first uploaded/published for free listening online in the Britain over the same period.
Entries were welcomed from all creators of audio drama, and were not restricted to BBC broadcasts.
