A Show To Shake The Stars Steve Clark

We’re back to review the radio drama for Return of the Jedi! Obviously, we will start with episode one, ‘Tatooine Haunts’.
Before breaking down the episode, Steve gives a brief history of the Jedi radio drama and how it came to be 13 years after The Empire Strikes Back aired on NPR.
Some of the topics that Steve covers during the show include:
His complicated relationship with The Rise of Skywalker How Brian Daley weaves in some of the Star Wars expanded universe into the canon of the radio drama (CANON, CANON!) The new casting for Luke Skywalker The complex relationship between Darth Vader & Emperor Palpatine Huttese swear words How Steve now likes Anthony Daniels! You can email the show ashowtoshakethestars@gmail.com
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A Show to Shake the Stars will return soon, looking at Fast Friends, the second episode of the Jedi radio drama, but in the meantime, May the Force Be with You!

We’re back to continue reviewing the radio drama for Return of the Jedi! In this episode we’re looking at episode two of the Jedi radio drama, ‘Fast Friends’
Some of the topics that Steve covers during the show include:
Why Jabba the Hutt is exactly the same as Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party The reproductive life cycle of the Hutts If a Sarlacc has a bad curry, does it take 1,000 years to digest? Why the key members of the Rebel Alliance would be AWFUL Bothan Spies How do you adapt a number of dialogue free scenes from a movie for radio? You can email the show ashowtoshakethestars@gmail.com
We’re also on Twitter, follow the handle @showshakestars
We are also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ashowtoshakethestars
A Show to Shake the Stars will return soon, looking at Prophesies and Destinies, the third episode of the Jedi radio drama, but in the meantime, May the Force Be with You!

We’re back to continue reviewing the radio drama for Return of the Jedi! In this episode we’re looking at episode three of the Jedi radio drama, ‘Prophesies and Destinies’
Some of the topics that Steve covers during the show include:
Princess Leia getting all ‘John McClane’ on Jabba’s ass’ A great new additional scene on the Millennium Falcon CANON! CANON! Steve talks about a reference to ‘Shadows of the Empire’ An interesting way in which Brian Daley takes a scene from the start of the movie and dumps it here, to better dramatic effect Obi-Wan gets all Trumpy The Emperor debuts a new game show! Here’s a link to the Shadows of the Empire blog that Steve talks about: https://bwspotlight.com/2017/01/02/chapter-by-chapter-star-wars-shadows-of-the-empire-ch-37/
You can email the show ashowtoshakethestars@gmail.com
We’re also on Twitter, follow the handle @showshakestars
We are also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ashowtoshakethestars
A Show to Shake the Stars will return soon, looking at Pattern & Web, the fourth episode of the Jedi radio drama, but in the meantime, May the Force Be with You!

We’re back to continue reviewing the radio drama for Return of the Jedi! In this episode we’re looking at episode four of the Jedi radio drama, ‘Pattern and Web’
Some of the topics that Steve covers during the show include
CANON! CANON! There is yet another reference to ‘Shadows of the Empire' A link between Star Wars and Star Trek: The Next Generation Adapting the speeder bike chase for radio, with mostly successful results The show reaching out to Mark Hamill, with no success at all Threepio has some Coronation tips for King Charles Leia fat shames Wicket! You can email the show ashowtoshakethestars@gmail.com
We’re also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/showshakestars
We’ve just joined Instagram, find us here: https://www.instagram.com/ashowtoshakethestars/
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A Show to Shake the Stars will return soon, looking at So Turns a Galaxy, So Turns a Wheel, the penultimate episode of the Jedi radio drama, but in the meantime, May the Force Be with You!

We’re back to continue reviewing the radio drama for Return of the Jedi! In this episode we’re looking at episode five of the Jedi radio drama, ‘So Turns a Galaxy, So Turns a Wheel’.
Some of the topics that Steve covers during the show include:
·      CANON! CANON! How does Leia remember her mother? Steve gets nit-picky! ·      Steve gets very angry when one of his favourite scenes from ROTJ gets ruined! ·      Brock Peters sounds bored. ·      Some major revelations for Luke and Leia, and some great performances from Joshua Fardon and Anne Sachs. ·      Some surprising omissions from the original radio drama script.  
You can email the show ashowtoshakethestars@gmail.com
We’re also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/showshakestars
We’ve just joined Instagram, find us here: https://www.instagram.com/ashowtoshakethestars/
We are also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ashowtoshakethestars
A Show to Shake the Stars will return in May, looking at the final episode of the Return of the Jedi radio drama, ‘Blood of a Jedi’, but in the meantime, May the Force Be with You!
 
 

We’re back to finish reviewing the radio drama for Return of the Jedi! In this episode we’re looking at the sixth and final episode of the Jedi radio drama, ‘Blood of a Jedi’.
Some of the topics that Steve covers during the show include:
Does this episode cram in all that’s left of the story effectively? Steve writes his own scene for the episode and includes it. Some bit part players sound really bored. The staff that work in the sound effects library need a holiday. Threepio appears in some odd scenes. What the hell is a lousy backshooter? You can email the show ashowtoshakethestars@gmail.com
We’re also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/showshakestars
We’ve just joined Instagram, find us here: https://www.instagram.com/ashowtoshakethestars/
We are also on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ashowtoshakethestars
A Show to Shake the Stars will return soon with a special Return of the Jedi retrospective episode, but in the meantime, May the Force Be with You!