Greig Coetzee's comedy drama Banana Republic won a Sony Radio prize in London, taking 3rd place in the best radiop drama 2004 category. Banana Republic was broadcast on BBC's Radio 4 last year. The BBC commissioned Greig to write the drama aftter seeing his play, Happy Natives, in the West End in 2002. Greig's award-winning play, White Men with Weapons, is soon to go on tour in Australia.
A familiar voice in Banana Republic was Don McCorkindale, who took the title role in Springbok Radio's My Name's Adam Caine in the 1970s.
