Star Wars: A New Hope 1981
Star Wars is a 13-part (6½ hour) radio serial first broadcast on National Public Radio in 1981.
It was adapted by Brian Daley from the original film, and directed by John Madden, with
music by John Williams and sound design for Lucasfilm by Ben Burtt.
The series fleshes out the storyline by adding a great deal of back story. Examples include
Princess Leia's acquisition of the Death Star schematics; Luke Skywalker using his binoculars
to observe the movie's opening battle and trying to convince his friends at Toshi Station of
what he saw; a skyhopper race that results in Luke's vehicle being damaged (seen in the
movie in the background of his Tatooine garage); Han Solo's encounter with Jabba the Hutt's
agent, "Heater"; Vader's interrogation of Princess Leia; and Admiral Motti's attempts to convince
Grand Moff Tarkin to leverage the Death Star as a political tool.
When the series was re-issued on NPR several years later, it was retitled The New Hope
(as opposed to the official alternate title, A New Hope), keeping in line with the subtitles
of the episodes of the original trilogy films.
When this series was first broadcast on National Public Radio in 1981, it generated the
largest response in the network's history: 50,000 letters and phone calls in a single week,
an audience of 750,000 per episode, and a subsequent 40-percent jump in NPR listenership.
This landmark production, perhaps the most ambitious radio project ever attempted, began
when Star Wars creator George Lucas donated the story rights to an NPR affiliate. Writer Brian
Daley adapted the film's highly visual script to the special demands and unique possibilities of
radio, creating a more richly textured tale with greater emphasis on character development.
Director John Madden guided a splendid cast—including Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels,
reprising their film roles as Luke Skywalker and the persnickety robot See Threepio—through
an intense 10 day dialogue recording session. Then came months of painstaking work for
virtuoso sound engineer Tom Voegeli, whose brilliant blending of the actors' voices, the music,
and hundreds of sound effects takes this intergalactic adventure into a realm of imagination that
is beyond the reach of cinema.
EPISODE TITLES
"A Wind To Shake The Stars"
"Points Of Origin"
"Black Knight, White Princess, And Pawns"
"While Giants Mark Time"
"Jedi That Was, Jedi To Be"
"The Millennium Falcon Deal"
"The Han Solo Solution"
"Death Star's Transit"
"Rogues, Rebels And Robots"
"The Luke Skywalker Initiative"
"The Jedi Nexus"
"The Case For Rebellion"
"Force And Counter Force"
CAST
Many of the actors involved in the movie were unavailable to reprise their roles:
Harrison Ford, for instance, was committed to the first Indiana Jones movie.
Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels returned to reprise their roles as Luke
Skywalker and C-3PO respectively.
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker
Ann Sachs as Princess Leia Organa
Perry King as Han Solo
Bernard "Bunny" Behrens as Obi-Wan Kenobi
Brock Peters as Lord Darth Vader
Anthony Daniels as C-3PO
Keene Curtis as Grand Moff Tarkin
John Considine as Lord Tion
Stephen Elliott as Prestor – more widely known as Bail Organa
David Ackroyd as Captain Antilles
Adam Arkin as Fixer
Kale Browne as Biggs Darklighter
David Clennon as Motti
Anne Gerety as Aunt Beru
Thomas Hill as Uncle Owen
David Paymer as Deak
Joel Brooks as Heater
John Dukakis as Rebel
Stephanie Steele as Cammie
Phillip Kellard as Customer #2
The supporting cast included James Blendick, Clyde Burton, Bruce French, David Alan Grier,
Jerry Hardin, John Harkins, Meshach Taylor, Marc Vahanian, John Welsh, and Kent Williams.
MEDIA INFO
General For All Episodes
Audio
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Duration : 30mn Approx
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 25.1 MiB (100%)
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