"Lorilei" radio production wins major awards'

Nick Harrington, President, Reprieve Australia

2 May 2007

The BBC Radio production of the play Lorilei, co-written by Reprieve Australia President Nick Harrington, has taken out the 2007 BBC Radio Drama and Gold Drama Award, 2007 Sony Radio Academy Award.

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2007 BBC Radio Drama Award

On 29 March 2007 at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, the Lorilei radio play was awarded the 2007 BBC Radio Drama Award. The judges for this in-house BBC awarded commented as follows

'A mesmerising lead performance, both moving and chilling, given even greater force by the knowledge that it was based on real events. This felt like so much more than a monologue, the sound effects and the music also contributed to an extraordinarily authentic account. One of the judges said 'this must be the best piece of radio drama I have ever heard'.

Gold Drama Award, 2007 Sony Radio Academy Awards

In March 2007, the radio play was nominated for a 2007 Sony Radio Academy Award in the 'Drama' category.

On 30 April 2007, at an award ceremony held at the Grosvenor Hotel in London, Lorilei was awarded the Gold Sony Radio Academy Drama Award. The Sony judges commented as follows:

"The jury was gripped by every minute of this one hour drama, with its impressive central performance by Anna Galvin as the real-life American woman whose child was abducted and killed, but who then argued against the death sentence for his murderer. Despite the subject-matter, the jury found the play to be uplifting rather than depressing. The producer used radio at its most intimate and subtle to lead the listener on a spell-binding journey into a disturbing world. Acting, writing and production complemented each other to create a strong winner in a particularly competitive year."

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