"And he said, 'Oh, why don't you do Star Wars?' " Toscan recalls. Then he mentioned the problem to a student. He remembers asking a colleague for advice on what story to dramatize: "There's this long pause, and he says, 'Create a scandal.' " So the network called Richard Toscan, then-head of the theater program at the University of Southern California. NPR figured it could maybe get more listeners by reviving the radio drama, which had been out of fashion for some 30 years. That's right: Some of you may have forgotten (and some might not even know) that the network created three radio dramas based on George Lucas' original three movies. In 1981, NPR hoped the interstellar fable would do the same for its audience numbers. This week, the latest installment in the Star Wars film saga is posting record numbers around the world. Mark Hamill (right) and Anthony Daniels reprise their roles of Luke Skywalker and C-3PO in the radio adaptation of Star Wars.
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