Works based on radio programs

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy of five books" by Douglas Adams with a sixth book written by Eoin Colfer. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name, centring on the adventures of the only man to survive the destruction of Earth. While roaming outer space, he comes to learn the truth behind Earth's existence. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months.

The Queen's Messenger was the first television drama. It was a 1928 radio drama adapted for television and broadcast both sound and moving pictures. These were received by 3 inch televisions that were set up in various places in the New York City area. There were special effect props for this broadcast to enhance the actors' performance and their sounds.

Un été avec Homère (lit. 'A summer with Homer') is a 2018 book by the French writer Sylvain Tesson, originally written as a series for France Inter's radio programme Un été avec. Tesson analyses the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer, commenting on their themes, physical environment and the worldview found in them. The book was commercially successful: the French edition sold more than 200,000 copies. An expanded version with original paintings by Laurence Bost was published in 2020.

Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (German: Die acht Todsünden der zivilisierten Menschheit) is a book by the Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz. It is about major threats against humans that Lorenz sees in ongoing disregards of nature and in new and emerging technologies. The material originated as six lectures Lorenz held for Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1970, before a revised version was published as a book in 1973.

Majid's Tales or The Tales of Majid (Persian: قصه‌های مجید) is a collection of short stories by Iranian author Houshang Moradi Kermani. Many years before it became a book, it was a radio program script (1974). In 1985, the script was adapted into a book and published. The main character, Majid, is an orphan who lives with his grandmother in the city of Kerman, Iran. The book includes 39 chapters detailing the adventures, misadventures, and coming-of-age milestones from the perspective of this Iranian teenager attending the first year of high school. Majid works in a bakery during the summer and sometimes after school in order to supplement the money that his grandmother receives from her deceased husband's retirement funds. There are some similarities between the fictional character, Majid, and Kermani. For example, Majid is an orphan, while in real life, Kermani lost his mother when he was young. Additionally, Majid and Kermani do not have any siblings and lived in poverty while growing up. It was in this state of solitude and loneliness that Kermani began to write.