Editing The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (section)

==Adaptations==
===1963 radio drama===

A six-part radio adaptation by Nan MacDonald was broadcast on the [[BBC Home Service]] in 1963.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/614c7c153cb94f3fa8e4ef4c28e4d783|title=Broadcast – BBC Programme Index|date=22 November 1963 }}</ref> The cast included John Thornley as Colin, Margaret Dew as Susan, Alison Bayley as Selina Place, Geoffrey Banks as Cadellin the Wizard, Brian Trueman as Fenodyree, John Blain as Police Sergeant, Ronald Harvi as Durathror, and George Hagan as Narrator.

===1989 radio drama===

The novel was dramatised in four parts by David Wade, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0952xvg|title = BBC Radio 4 Extra – Alan Garner – The Weirdstone of Brisingamen}}</ref> The production was directed at BBC Manchester by Caroline Smith.  It starred Robin Bailey as Cadellin, James Tomlinson as Gowther Mossock/Narrator, Andrea Murphy as Susan, Mark Kingston as Colin, Rosalind Knight as Selina Place, Patsy Byrne as Bess, George Parsons as Guard/Ticket collector, Richard Herdman as Farmer/Porter, and Anne Jameson as the Crow.

===2011 radio drama===

In the 2011 [[BBC Radio 4]] adaptation [[Robert Powell]] played the narrator; he has known Garner since he was a schoolboy at [[Manchester Grammar School]]. [[Struan Rodger]], who played the dwarf Durathror, was in a radio production of another Garner story, ''[[Elidor]]'', when he was thirteen years old.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016vxyz|title = BBC Radio 4 – Saturday Drama, Alan Garner – the Weirdstone of Brisingamen}}</ref> This adaptation was broadcast again in November 2012.

===Musical===

In the 1970s, ''The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'' was adapted as a musical by Paul Pearson and was staged in 1983 in [[Manchester]] and later in [[Essex]]. The original Manchester cast included artist [[Sue Mason]], who also designed the programme book. The songs from the show were later re-arranged by [[Inkubus Sukkubus]] with hopes of resurrecting the musical for a modern audience, but copyright restrictions have made it unlikely that it will be presented again.