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'Star Wars: The National Public Radio Dramatization' book review

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(C) 1994 Ballantine/Del Rey Books Star Wars: The National Public Radio Dramatization Radio Play by Brian Daley Based on characters and situations created by George Lucas Star Wars: If you missed the thirteen-part radio series, you haven’t heard the whole story. – Brian Daley A long time ago (35 years ago, actually) in an efficiency apartment on the West Coast, a young novelist named Brian Daley undertook a mission worthy of a Jedi Knight – to adapt George Lucas’s original Star Wars movie into a thirteen-part radio drama for National Public Radio. Daley was chosen to translate Lucas’s cinematic work into an audio-only dramatization by Carol Titleman, the Lucasfilm executive who oversaw the Radio Drama, because she’d liked what the author had done with Star Wars material in Han Solo at Star’s End. Daley spent three months working on the scripts for the Radio Drama , which premiered in the spring of 1981 as part of NPR Playhouse Star Wars: The Radio Dr