SHORT LIST PRIX ITALIA 2008 RADIO DRAMA ORIGINAL DRAMA GERMANY ALLEMAGNE ARD DEATH ‐ STORY ON/OFF DIRECTOR: THOMAS WOLFERTZ GERMANY ALLEMAGNE ARD SANTO SUBITO DIRECTOR: EBERHARD PETSCHINKA NORWAY NORVEGE NRK DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND DIRECTOR: INGRID FORTHUN ADAPTED DRAMA CROATIA CROATIE HRT A TRUE STORY DIRECTOR: JASNA MESARIC JAPAN ‐ JAPON NHK RAVINES OF THE DAWN DIRECTOR: KENJI SHINDO UNITED KINGDOM ROYAUME ‐ UNI BBC WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ DIRECTOR: TIM DEE RADIO DRAMA JURY REPORT I would like to start by introducing the Radio Drama Jury. We are Thomas Anniko from Canada, Heino Byrgesen from Denmark, Soila Valkama from Finland, Claudia Ingenhoven from Germany, Mitsunobu Ozaki from Japan, Wooyong Lee from Korea, Guri Skeie from Norway, Beata Panakova from the Slovak Republic and I am Lorelei Harris from Ireland. Over the past week we have listened to 31 plays of which 21 were entered into the original play category and 10 into the adaptation category. However, after some discussion, the jury chose to move two plays from the original play category into the adaptation category. We heard a number of plays which dealt with death and the big questions of history: genocide, the effects of political repression and war were all explored in the works entered. We also heard plays about personal