 In the 1960s and later, the ABC continued to produce many original Australian radio dramas as well as works adapted from other media.In recent years original radio dramas and adapted works were commissioned from local dramatists and produced for the ABC's Radio National network program "Airplay", which ran from the late 1990s until early 2013.In late 2012 ABC management imposed budget cuts and axed a number of long-running arts programs, thereby ending the national broadcaster's decades-long history of producing radio drama (as well as its equally long history of providing daily serialised book readings).