The Script Yorkshire radio drama competition 2020

Scriptwriters of Yorkshire! Please put your hands together for this year's radio drama competition winners...

Erin Revell: Spare
Paul Joe Osborne: We Were the Singers
Jacqueline Saville: Playing with my Heart
Tom Jordan: Yellow Vision

A hearty well done, you four! Recording of your pieces may be delayed because of Covid restrictions, but we'll get them made as soon as poss, we promise.

Our BBC producer judge Gaynor Macfarlane said of this year's entries:

"It's been a pleasure to read the short audio dramas for you... I have selected my top four for freshness of writing and idea, and for visual impact. I like it when a script surprises me, and also when I 'see' it.

Your chance to have a short radio play produced and broadcast

This year, we've linked up with Chapel FM to bring you another fun radio drama competition. Three winning scripts will be produced in January 2021 by Peter Spafford and Tony Macaluso at Chapel FM using professional actors.

All three plays will then be broadcast on Chapel FM as part of their Writing On Air festival, alongside the winning entries from our 2019 radio competition.

Introducing our professional judge

We're thrilled to have brilliant BBC radio producer Gaynor Macfarlane on board for this year's competition. After the submission deadline, we'll draw up a shortlist of nine plays to send her, from which she'll select the three she thinks make best use of the radio medium.

Gaynor has been producing radio drama for the BBC for about 20 years, so we couldn't have wished for a better script selector! She's also worked as a theatre director, literary manager, translator and dramaturg, and has recently made her first forays into film directing.