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]

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

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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