The Idiot (radio drama)

The Idiot is a 1938 Australian radio drama. It was adapted by Edmund Barclay from the novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.[2]

The Idiot
Genredrama
Running time75 mins (8:00 pm – 9:15 pm)
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Written byEdmund Barclay
based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Original releaseFebruary 3, 1938 (1938-02-03)[1]

Barclay's adaptation has been called a "radio masterpiece".[3] It was one of a series of classical novel adaptations by Barclay for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); Leslie Rees listed The Idiot among the best of these.[4]

The production was well received and the adaptation was recorded again in 1947.[5]

A copy of the script is at the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland.[6]

References
  1. "Listen To "THE IDIOT"". The Queenslander. Queensland, Australia. 26 January 1938. p. 17. Retrieved 12 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. Australasian Radio Relay League., "THURSDAY Feb. 3 National Stations", The wireless weekly : the hundred per cent Australian radio journal, Sydney: Wireless Press (Vol. 31 No. 4 (January 28, 1938)), nla.obj-708479242, retrieved 12 October 2023 – via Trove
  3. Marion Consandine, 'Barclay, Edmund Piers (Teddy) (1898–1961)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barclay-edmund-piers-teddy-9425/text16569, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 12 October 2023.
  4. Rees, Leslie (1987). Australian drama, 1970-1985 : a historical and critical survey. p. 158.
  5. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (1939), "A.B.C. PLAY-LOVERS' GUIDE", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC (Vol. 9 No. 47 (22 November 1947)), nla.obj-1433940470, retrieved 12 October 2023 – via Trove
  6. The Idiot at Fryer Library
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