Star Wars - A Wind To Shake The Stars - 1/3

Episode 1 - A Wind To Shake The Stars

The 1981 radio dramatisation of the original Star Wars film.

Expanded into 6 and a half hours, the story explores in vivid detail the events depicted in 'A New Hope'.

Cast

Luke Skywalker - Mark Hamill
Obi-Wan Kenobi - Bernard Behrens
C-3PO - Anthony Daniels
Han Solo - Perry King
Princess Leia - Ann Sachs
Lord Darth Vader - Brock Peters

Music - John Williams
Sound Design - Ben Burtt

Episode List

1)A Wind To Shake The Stars
2)Points Of Origin
3)Black Knight, White Princess, And Pawns
4)While Giants Mark Time
5)Jedi That Was, Jedi To Be
6)The Millennium Falcon Deal
7)The Han Solo Solution
8)Death Star's Transit
9)Rogues, Rebels And Robots
10)The Luke Skywalker Initiative
11)The Jedi Nexus
12)The Case For Rebellion
13)Force And Counter Force

More details...
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_%28radio%29

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[Tulkastaldo]

Luke humming along with the Star Wars theme was a strange touch. Is that the music that the empire uses to recruit people?

[darkempire37]

this greatly enhances ones enjoyment of the films and explains a lot of things going on offscreeen.thanks for posting.

[devojane]

@TomMSTie It's totally the same sound effect. I haven't heard this in maybe twenty years, now I notice stuff I never did before. Like Adam Arkin as the Fixer!

[Andybaby]

Who the hell disliked this?

[Aegean044]

Thanks, remember listening to this on the radio. Happy Days :)

[LadyMoondancer]

thank you for posting this. I had recorded this off NPR radio and still have the old tapes, then I bought the set. Now I'm working on getting my music collection transfered to MP3

you have saved me some work. (just have to download thru realplayer, then convert to MP3)

outside of all that - This adaptation is sooo cool!

[cgrscott]

This reminds me of American Graffiti.

[tobar1p]

@Tulkastaldo They released the deleted scene of Luke rushing to Anchorhead and meeting with Biggs on a CD-ROM called Behind the Magic. It's up on youtube if you look for it.

[collegeman1988]

I remember this radio series well. Before the days of movies being released onto DVD just six months after they were in theaters, and before a VHS player was in everyone's home, the only way you could "watch" Star Wars at home in 1981 was on NPR. This series aired on NPR from April to July 1981 and is the best radio adaptation of a movie ever. It fills in all the backstory that wasn't in the movie and all of the music and sound design from the original movie is there. Great!

[dan1986ist]

RIP Brian Daley

[TomMSTie]

Interesting how much the sound FX for Luke's Skyhopper sounds like a Pod Racer.