If This Is a Man
His most noted radio dramatizations are "If This Is a Man" (1965), a 140-minute adaptation of Stuart Woolf's translation of Primo Levi's "Se questo e un uomo", and "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" (1966), a 135- minute adaptation of James Agee's book of the same title. John Reeves, the CBC producer of Whalley's adaptations of Levi and Agee, has written about the radio productions. Whalley made a major contribution to broadcasting in Canada, and his works were repeatedly nominated for the Italia Prize for radio. Whalley's adaptations of the novel " Peter Abelard" by Helen Waddle, Malory's "Morte d'Arthur", James Agee's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men", and Primo Levi's "If This Is A Man" are among the most significant the finest pieces of writing ever made for radio.