Editing The Green Hills of Earth (section)

==Film, TV, radio/audio and theatrical adaptations==
The story was adapted for the ''[[Dimension X (radio program)|Dimension X]]'' radio series (episode 10).  It also appeared on the July 7, 1955, broadcast of the NBC Radio Network program ''[[X Minus One]]''.  Both versions are told from the point of view of a friend of Rhysling's, and have Rhysling using a guitar instead of an accordion.  As well as part of the title song (including the origin of a stanza about [[Venus]]) using the tune [[Old Settler's Song (Acres of Clams)|"Rosin the Bow"]], two verses of "The Captain is a Father to His Crew" are sung, plus choral verses of "Jet Song", and a complete and particularly beautiful version of "The Grand Canal".<ref name=NBC1955/>{{rp|at=00:09:55}}  The songs were composed and sung by [[Tom Glazer]] in a manner akin to [[Woody Guthrie]]; Kenneth Williams played Rhysling as a backwoodsman from the [[Ozarks]], an area not far from Heinlein's Missouri birthplace.  The broadcast is available on the ''Old-Time Radio Classical Favorites'' release in the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s ''Radio Spirits'' series.<ref name=NBC1955>{{Citation|last=Old Time Radio Researchers Group|title=X Minus One - Single Episodes|date=2011-05-14|url=http://archive.org/details/OTRR_X_Minus_One_Singles|access-date=2022-02-14}}</ref>

Another adaptation aired on the ''CBS Radio Workshop'' on July 21, 1957.<ref>
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}}</ref> The script was by Draper Lewis and [[Robert Heinlein]], produced and directed by Dee Engelbach, with music by Clark Harrington.  [[Everett Sloane]] played Rhysling, [[Berry Kroeger]] narrated, and other cast members included [[Jackson Beck]], Danny Ocko, Ian Martin, Louis Volkman, and Bill Lipton.

The song "The Green Hills of Earth" which appears in the story was also used in the 11th episode of the third series of the British radio series, ''[[Journey into Space]]''.

The 1951 – 1952 television series ''[[Out There (1951 TV series)|Out There]]'' (episode aired December 2, 1951) had a loosely adapted version of the story (Rhysling is on a mission to the asteroids with a crew which includes a beautiful blonde biologist) which starred singer [[John Raitt]].

In 1977, [[Leonard Nimoy]] recorded a dramatic reading of the story as the title track of an album for [[Caedmon Records]]. Nimoy narrated the song lyric excerpts as originally written by Heinlein without singing them.<ref>{{Citation |title=Leonard Nimoy reads Robert Heinlein's "The Green Hills of Earth" |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldpmCzvju84 |access-date=2023-06-30 |language=en}}</ref>

The story "The Green Hills of Earth" was read at [[Symphony Space]] by [[Kathleen Chalfant]] on 6/8/2001 and broadcast on the radio program [[Selected Shorts]].<ref>[https://www.symphonyspace.org/selected-shorts/broadcast-schedule "Selected Shorts" 2001 episode list]</ref>