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.

Barclay's adaptation has been called a "radio masterpiece". 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.

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

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