During the following decade, he consolidated his position as one of the leading poets of his generation with collections such as The Shadow, The Temptations of Saint Anthony, The Living and Blockhead.

As librettist he has worked with Thomas Jennefelt, Sport & Leisure, and the four-hour opera Book of Life, based on the Bible, with music by Sven-David Sandström, who managed to finished the composing just weeks before he died in the summer of 2019.

In addition to working with Osten he has written the screenplay for Jan Troells Golden Globe-nominated film Everlasting Moments.

As a playwright, he has also done a number of major staging of literary works: Dante's Divine Comedy, 2004, the mastodont project The Bible, 2012, Don Quijote, 2013, and The Master and Margarita, 2014, after Mikhail Bulgakov's novel.

His play for children The Earless Singer, 1997, based on a Japanese folk tale recorded by Lafcadio Hearn, has also become an opera with music by Gunnar Edander.

Rådström's play freely built on three censored chapters in Dostoevsky's novel The Evil Spirits, Long Silence.

In Walking Through a Mountain, 2007, Rådström describes in dramatic collage the mechanisms of depression and in the collaboration between four Danish theaters and the music group Middle East Peace Orchestra, "The Other Dreams", 2009, the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The autobiographical novel A Handful of Rain, 2007, tells of a close childhood friend's early death on his own and is also a meditation on the essence of suicide and depression.