ABSTRACT
This chapter explores different types of adaptation in audio drama. A range of case studies will be used for analysis to ensure that the topic is explored in the most diverse way: in addition to classic works of radio drama and output from the major radio networks. It also features analysis of independent podcast audio drama and examples of 'experimental' sonic culture. Radio drama has been comparatively disregarded in academic study, above all non-Anglophonic work, which represents an overlooked but rich critical mass worthy of exploration. Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights has been consistently popular in radio -adaptation, with versions as far back, at least, as The Lux Radio Theater's post-Hollywood film-to-radio version in September 1939, and with new versions more or less in every decade since. To hear narratives unfurl in the space between our ears can be a subjectively intense experience and an unparalleled way to experience an adaptation.
