Editing Lord Peter Wimsey (section)

==Dramatic adaptations==
===Film===
In 1935, the British film ''[[The Silent Passenger]]'' was released, in which Lord Peter, played by well-known comic actor [[Peter Haddon]], solved a mystery on the boat train crossing the [[English Channel]]. Sayers disliked the film and [[Leslie Seth-Smith|James Brabazon]] describes it as an "oddity, in which Dorothy's contribution was altered out of all recognition."

The novel ''Busman's Honeymoon'' was originally a stage play by Sayers and her friend Muriel St. Clare Byrne. A 1940 film of ''Busman's Honeymoon'' (US: ''[[Busman's Honeymoon (film)|The Haunted Honeymoon]]''), stars [[Robert Montgomery (actor)|Robert Montgomery]] and [[Constance Cummings]] as Lord and Lady Peter and [[Seymour Hicks]] as Bunter.

===Television===
[[Image:Petherbridgeaslordwimsey.jpg|thumb|The cover of Gaudy Night, from the [[BBC]] series. Featuring [[Edward Petherbridge]] as Lord Peter Wimsey]]

A BBC television version of the play ''Busman's Honeymoon'' with [[Harold Warrender]] as Lord Peter, was transmitted live on the BBC Television Service on 2 October 1947.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/073467266e7e43db8890a235b0a13237 |title=Busman's Honeymoon (1947)|website=BBC Genome|date=2 October 1947 |access-date=22 August 2020}}</ref> A second live BBC version was broadcast on 3 October 1957, with Peter Gray as Wimsey.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/255d4dc4e50c45078d548a6bdd7b2ec6|title=Busman's Honeymoon (1957)|website=BBC Genome|date=3 October 1957 |access-date=22 August 2020}}</ref>

Several other Lord Peter Wimsey novels were made into television productions by the BBC, in two separate series. Wimsey was played by [[Ian Carmichael]], with Bunter being played by [[Glyn Houston]] (with [[Derek Newark]] stepping in for ''The Unpleasantness at The Bellona Club''), in a series of separate serials under the umbrella title ''[[Lord Peter Wimsey (TV series)|Lord Peter Wimsey]]'', that ran between 1972 and 1975, adapting five novels (''Clouds of Witness'', ''The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club'', ''Five Red Herrings'', ''Murder Must Advertise'' and ''The Nine Tailors'').

[[Edward Petherbridge]] played Lord Peter for BBC Television in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey/Vane novels (''Strong Poison'', ''Have His Carcase'' and ''Gaudy Night'') were dramatised under the umbrella title ''[[A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery]]''. Harriet Vane was played by [[Harriet Walter]] and Bunter was played by [[Richard Morant]]. The BBC was unable to secure the rights to turn ''Busman's Honeymoon'' into a proposed fourth and last part of the planned 13-episode series, so the series was produced as ten episodes. (Edward Petherbridge later played Wimsey in the UK production of the ''Busman's Honeymoon'' play staged at the [[Lyric Hammersmith]] and on tour in 1988, with the role of Harriet being taken by his real-life spouse, [[Emily Richard]].)

Both the 1970s productions and the 1987 series are now available on videotape and DVD.

===Radio===
Adaptations of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels appeared on BBC Radio from the 1930s onwards. An adaptation of the short story "The Footsteps That Ran" dramatised by John Cheatle appeared on the [[BBC Home Service]] in November 1939 with [[Cecil Trouncer]] as Wimsey.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9553f855fd9d45c98324c224bfc0b4dc|title=The Footsteps That Ran|website=BBC Genome|date=26 November 1939 |access-date=22 August 2020}}</ref> [[Rex Harrison]] took on the role in an adaptation of "Absolutely Everywhere" on the Home Service on 5 March 1940.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fcb54d1c224240dd9c784418328e26f6|title=Absolutely Everywhere|website=BBC Genome|date=5 March 1940 |access-date=22 August 2020}}</ref> The short story "The Man with No Face" was dramatised by [[Audrey Lucas]] for the Home Service ''Saturday-Night Theatre'' play, broadcast on 3 April 1943 with Robert Holmes in the lead role.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f1171044c12a458bb79b2b7b8fd332ce|title=The Man With No Face|website=BBC Genome|date=3 April 1943 |access-date=22 August 2020}}</ref>

A four-part adaptation of ''The Nine Tailors'' adapted by Giles Cooper and starring [[Alan Wheatley]] as Wimsey was broadcast on the [[BBC Light Programme]] in August 1954.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/b33264389292406db5fbd6d792e85590|title=The Nine Tailors|website=BBC Genome|access-date=22 August 2020}}</ref>

Ian Carmichael reprised his television role as Lord Peter in ten [[Lord Peter Wimsey (radio series)|radio adaptations]] for BBC Radio 4 of Sayers's Wimsey novels between 1973 and 1983, all of which have been available on cassette and CD from the [[BBC Radio Collection]]. These co-starred [[Peter Jones (actor)|Peter Jones]] as Bunter. In the original series no adaptation was made of the seminal ''[[Gaudy Night]]'', perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and [[Joanna David]]. The CD also includes a panel discussion on the novel, the major participants in which are [[P. D. James]] and [[Jill Paton Walsh]]. ''Gaudy Night'' was released as an unabridged audio book read by Ian Carmichael in 1993.

[[Gary Bond]] starred as Lord Peter Wimsey and [[John Cater]] as Bunter in two single-episode [[BBC Radio 4]] adaptations: ''The Nine Tailors'' on 25 December 1986 and ''Whose Body'' on 26 December 1987.<ref>[https://www.old-time.com/otrlogs2/lpw_fp.log.txt Lord Peter Wimsey]</ref> [[Simon Russell Beale]] played Wimsey in an adaptation of ''Strong Poison'' dramatised by [[Michael Bakewell]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0eb9a000a1a64250baa8f19ce38c1a76|title=Strong Poison|website=BBC Genome|date=2 October 1999 |access-date=22 August 2020}}</ref>