"[2] The plot of The Masters may be inspired by Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, in which an English city's bishop dies and a successor is selected.

In the long BBC Radio serialisation of the recently completed Strangers and Brothers sequence in 1971, Geoffrey Matthews as Eliot, Noel Johnson as Jago, and Alan Wheatley as Crawford.

An adaptation of Ronald Millar's stage version was broadcast on the BBC Overseas Service in 1974 with John Pullen as Eliot, Denys Hawthorne as Jago, and Frederick Treves again playing Crawford.

In the BBC's 1984 television serialisation of the sequence, Frederick Treves moved to the part of Vernon Royce, the dying Master.

In the BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial adaptation by Jonathan Howell [1] of the Strangers and Brothers series, first broadcast in 2003, the parts in The Masters were played by David Haig as Narrator, Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot, Philip Franks as Arthur Brown, Matthew Marsh as Chrystal, David Calder as Jago, Hugh Quarshie as Crawford, Adam Levy as Roy Calvert, Andy Taylor as Francis Getliffe, Clive Merrison as Winslow, Joanna Monro as Alice Jago, Ian Hogg as Sir Horace Timberlake, Peter Howell as Despard-Smith, Anastasia Hille as Sheila Eliot, Patrick Godfrey as Robinson, and Carla Simpson as Betty Vane.