The Giles Cooper Awards were honours given to plays written for BBC Radio.
Sponsored by the BBC and Methuen Drama, the awards were specifically focused on the script of the best radio drama produced in the past year.
Five or six winners were chosen from the entire year's production of BBC drama, and published in a series of books.
[1] These awards ran annually between 1978 and 1992, instigated by Richard Imison at the BBC and Geoffrey Strachan at Eyre Methuen.
There was no prize money, but publication was a notable mark of permanence in the ephemeral world of broadcasting.