The Idiot is a 1938 Australian radio drama.

It was adapted by Edmund Barclay from the novel The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

[2] Barclay's adaptation has been called a "radio masterpiece".

[3] It was one of a series of classical novel adaptations by Barclay for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); Leslie Rees listed The Idiot among the best of these.

[5] A copy of the script is at the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland.