Star Wars: A New Hope is a 13-part (5hr51m) 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 Tosche 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. All this material was released on tape.
The episodes are titled:
- "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"
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