A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Have you listened to 'Star Wars: The Radio Drama'?  Does its subplot about the Death Star plans impact 'Legends'? If you’re referring to 1981’s  Star Wars: The Radio Drama,  of course I have! Brian Daley (1947-1996) Photo Credit: Beauregard Simmons, www.briandaley.com So have many other  Star Wars  fans, both at the time that Brian Daley’s 13-part adaptation aired on National Public Radio and later, when Highbridge Audio (a subsidiary of Minnesota Public Radio) released it on audiocassette and compact disc in the early 1990s. In fact, I have two box sets of the  Star Wars: The Radio Dramas.  One is the “as heard on NPR” edition that most people own on tape, CD, or MP3 audio files; the other is the pricier  Limited Collector’s Edition  set that presents the Radio Dramas as they were originally recorded, without the edits asked for by NPR stations for station identification breaks and other industry-related issues. In ca...

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...

(C) 1980 Lucasfilm Ltd. (LFL) Gambler's Choice Cast:  Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) Princess Leia Organa (Ann Sachs) Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) See-Threepio (Anthony Daniels) Artoo-Detoo Darth Vader (Brock Peters) Chewbacca Lobot Boba Fett Imperial Lieutenant Imperial Commander  First Trooper Second Trooper Supervisor Bespin Guard #1 Bespin Guard #2 Bespin Guard #3 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 ...

(C) 1983 National Public Radio and Lucasfilm Limited. Art by: Ralph McQuarrie Way of the Jedi Cast: Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) Artoo Detoo Yoda (John Lithgow) Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Bernard Behrens) Darth Vader (Brock Peters) Captain Needa (Nicholas Kepros) Admiral Piett (David Rasche) Emperor Palpatine (Paul Hecht) 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 radio format. The longer version is available in HighBridge Audio's more expensive Limited Edition CD col...