The Tinniswood Award

honours the best original radio drama script broadcast during 2005 and was given to Nick Warburton for Beast. The play will be repeated on Radio 4 on 23 October at 14.15 and then be made available on demand for a week at www.bbc.co.uk

The Award is jointly administered by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and The Society of Authors and a year's free membership was given along with PURE Digital's latest digital radio, the PURE One.

Beast by Nick Warburton (Winner)

A beautifully understated play with real emotional power that creates strong and believable characters, and reverberates in the mind long after you've finished reading it. A play totally conceived for radio; it would be diminished by being performed in any other medium.

Nick Warburton has written over fifty broadcast radio plays such as Mustard Seed (short-listed for the 2004 Tinniswood), Conversations from the Engine Room (joint-winner of the BBC/Radio Times Drama Award in 1985) and A Grove of Straight Trees (short-listed for the BBC/Radio Times Drama Award in 1993).
Nick's TV credits include scripts for Doctors, Holby City, EastEnders and Born and Bred. Theatrical productions include For Starters and an adaptation of Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham. In 2005 he was nominated for an Arts Foundation Fellowship (by Alan Ayckbourn). He is also author of seven novels for children and young adults.