Writer and Director Gwyneth Hughes, best known for adapting the Post Office Scandal for 2024 drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, accepts her RTS Fellowship at the RTS Patrons' Dinner 2024.
Niamh Algar, starring as a hospital doctor who becomes embroiled in a medical scandal in the ITV series, was named Best Actor.
ITV’s much-garlanded campaigning drama, Mr Bates vs the Post Office picked up yet another award, with Gwyneth Hughes named Best Writer.
The ceremony, hosted by Bradford-born comedian, writer and actor Jessica Knappett, was held at Headingley Stadium in Leeds.
The Fellowships were presented last night during the RTS Patrons’ Dinner held at One Great George Street.
It was almost 15 years ago that writer Hughes saw Banaz Mahmod’s face in the newspaper, a victim of a so-called honour killing.
In 2006, Mahmod was raped and murdered in a plot initiated by her own father and uncle, for falling in love with a man her family hadn’t chosen, following a divorce from her violent husband 10 years her senior.
For Hughes, after watching the documentary Banaz: A Love Story, she knew she needed to turn the story into a drama.
The programmes include a new crime thriller by Steven Moffat, a political drama starring Hugh Laurie, an adaption of Jo Bloom’s Ridley Road and a drama focusing on the controversial abortion laws in Northern Ireland.
