Between 1979 and 1996 Usborne adapted some of Wodehouse's stories for broadcast on BBC Radio, beginning with a serialisation of "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit" (1979), starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster; in 1985 Usborne's adaptations of seven Blandings short stories were broadcast and in 1987 he adapted the novel "Summer Lightning", followed by "Heavy Weather" (1988), "Pigs Have Wings" (1989) and "Galahad at Blandings" starring Richard Vernon as Lord Emsworth and Ian Carmichael as Galahad Threepwood. Usborne's last radio dramatisation was "Uncle Dynamite" (1996) starring Briers as Lord Ickenham. Usborne also prepared abridgements for single narrator of "The Luck of the Bodkins" (1981), "Bring On the Girls!" (1981) and "Quick Service" (1994).