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==Television, radio, and other adaptations== * ''The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'' was dramatised in 6 30-minute parts by [[Nan Macdonald]] for the BBC's Home Service broadcast in November 1963.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/be2d256acd45425fb0d8f2ac07bb450a | title=BBC Programme Index | date=8 November 1963 }}</ref> * ''Elidor'' was read in instalments by [[John Stride]] for the BBC's ''[[Jackanory]]'' programme in June 1968. * ''[[The Owl Service (TV series)|The Owl Service]] '' (1969), a British TV series transmitted by Granada Television based on Garner's novel of the same name. * A second adaptation of ''Elidor'' was read on a [[BBC Radio 4]] in July 1972. * ''Red Shift'' (BBC, transmitted 17 January 1978); directed by John Mackenzie; part of the BBC's ''[[Play for Today]]'' series. * ''To Kill a King'' (1980), part of the BBC series of plays on supernatural themes, ''[[Leap in the Dark]]'': an atmospheric story about a writer overcoming depression and writer's block. The hero's home appears to be Garner's own house. * ''The Keeper'' (ITV, transmitted 13 June 1983), an episode of the ITV children's series ''[[Dramarama (TV series)|Dramarama]]: Spooky'' series * Garner and [[Don Webb (playwright)|Don Webb]] adapted ''Elidor'' as a BBC children's television series shown in 1995, comprising six half-hour episodes, starring [[Damian Zuk]] as Roland and [[Suzanne Shaw]] as Helen.<ref>[http://imdb.com/title/tt0303455/ "Elidor (1995β )"]. [[IMDb]]. Retrieved 18 August 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.classickidstv.co.uk/wiki/Elidor "Elidor"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527222602/http://www.classickidstv.co.uk/wiki/Elidor |date=27 May 2010 }}. Classic Kids TV (''classickidstv.com''). Retrieved 18 August 2010.</ref> * ''The Owl Service'' was adapted for the stage in 2004 by The Drum Theatre in [[Plymouth]]. * ''Elidor'' was dramatised as a radio play in four-parts by [[Don Webb (playwright)|Don Webb]], broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]] in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alan Garner - Elidor |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0106x20 |website=BBC Radio |access-date=22 August 2018}}</ref>
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