A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Photo Credit: Nathan Patrick Butler. © 2012 Nathan Patrick Butler. Star Wars logos and content © 1977 Lucasfilm Ltd.  Pros:  Contains all three of NPR's  Star Wars  radio dramas; impressive presentation and nice extras Cons:  None A long time ago, in a bedrooom not very far away, I was a bored and somewhat restless teenager in one of those  I've done all my chores and my homework assignments for my high school classes, there's nothing good on TV, and I really don't have anything to do  moods that 18-year-olds without much of a social life often get into. At the time, I had a small black-and-white TV set and a radio in my room; VCRs were still very expensive and the only one I'd seen was at a friend's house, so watching a video was not an option. I also didn't yet have an Atari 2600 console...nor cable TV...and my friends didn't yet have cars, so my options for getting out of that feeling of "mindless tedium" were to read, li

Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith (C) 1980 Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) Dark Lord's Fury Cast: Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) See-Threepio (Anthony Daniels) Han Solo (Perry King) Princess Leia Organa (Ann Sachs) Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Willliams) Artoo-Detoo Chewbacca Darth Vader (Brock Peters) Lobot Boba Fett Imperial Commander First Trooper Second Trooper First Guard Second Guard Narrator (Ken Hiller) Reviewer's Note: All quoted material is from the 1995 Del Rey book  Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - The National Public Radio Dramatization.  This edition contains Brian Daley's complete radio play, which differs slightly from the version of the Radio Drama which aired on National Public Radio in 1983 and the original 1990s HighBridge Audio cassette and compact disc editions. The version in Daley's script  was  recorded, but as with the original 1981  Star Wars Radio Drama,  edits were made at the request of NPR due to the needs of the rad

(C) 1993 HighBridge Audio and Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) New Allies, New Enemies Cast: Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) Han Solo (Perry King) Chewbacca Princess Leia Organa (Ann Sachs) See Threepio (C-3PO) (Anthony Daniels) Artoo Detoo (R2-D2) Lord Darth Vader  (Brock Peters) Boba Fett Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) Yoda (John Lithgow) Imperial Lieutenant Admiral Piett (David Rasche) Captain Lorth Needa (Nicholas Kepros) Sentry Cloud City Control Droid Trooper Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Bernard "Bunny" Behrens) Narrator (Ken Hiller) Reviewer's Note: All quoted material is from the 1995 Del Rey book  Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - The National Public Radio Dramatization.  This edition contains Brian Daley's complete radio play, which differs slightly from the version of the Radio Drama which aired on National Public Radio in 1983 and the original 1990s HighBridge Audio cassette and compact disc editions. The version in Daley's script 

(C) 1980 Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) The Millennium Falcon Pursuit Cast: Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) Han Solo (Perry King) Chewbacca Princess Leia Organa (Ann Sachs) See-Threepio (Anthony Daniels) Artoo-Detoo Darth Vader (Brock Peters) Tarrin Wedge Antilles (Dan Scardino) Transport Admiral Piett (David Rasche) General Veers (Gordon Gould) Imperial Pilot (Jay Sanders) Narrator (Ken Hiller) Reviewer's Note: All quoted material is from the 1995 Del Rey book  Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - The National Public Radio Dramatization.  This edition contains Brian Daley's complete radio play, which differs slightly from the version of the Radio Drama which aired on National Public Radio in 1983 and the original 1990s HighBridge Audio cassette and compact disc editions. The version in Daley's script  was r ecorded, but as with the original 1981  Star Wars Radio Drama,  edits were made at the request of NPR due to the needs of the radio format. The longer ver