Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Hyde in Laboratory

English · Gothic Fiction, Horror, Dramatic Readings

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde follows Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respected London physician whose experiments unleash a darker self: the violent and increasingly dangerous Mr. Hyde. The story explores the divided nature of a person who tries to separate respectable public life from hidden impulses.

In this radio dramatization, the familiar tale is shaped for listening through spoken performance and sound, bringing its suspenseful encounters and unsettling transformation to life. The subtitle, “Hyde in Laboratory,” points to the story’s scientific setting and the experiment at its center.

Gothic in mood and psychological in its concerns, the story builds tension around Jekyll’s attempt to control what he has released. Its enduring appeal lies in the contrast between the doctor’s outward respectability and the menace of Hyde, and in the question of how far one person can divide good from evil.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.