His prose reputation was established with The Man of Property, the first part of the Forsyte Saga, which was published in 1906.
He was first and best known, in his lifetime, as a dramatist, with plays including The Silver Box, Strife and The Skin Game.
He trained as a barrister but his heart was in writing, though he made slow progress at first. John Galsworthy was born in Surrey in 1867. Apart from many straight readings of the novels on radio, there was a feature film, That Forsyte Woman, and a succession of radio dramatisations of individual novels and stories starting with the first novel, The Man of Property, in 1945. The most celebrated adaptation of The Forsyte Saga was BBC2’s 26-part version which was transmitted fifty years ago, starting on 7 January 1967. It may have crept under a lot of people’s radar because radio drama is little celebrated in the press, but Radio 4 is currently half way through one of its longest literary adaptations – a new version of John Galsworthy’s sequence of novels The Forsyte Chronicles – often referred to by the title of the first trilogy within the work, The Forsyte Saga.
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