Star Wars Palitoy documentary coming to BBC4

There's BBC Star Wars this week. This time, a radio documentary on the World Service.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct03mr

I've only watched one, can't seem to find one of them. I watched the one about Palitoy factory, what's the other one called?

theforceuk said:

I've only watched one, can't seem to find one of them. I watched the one about Palitoy factory, what's the other one called?

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The Galaxy That Britain Built

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000cdzt/the-galaxy-britain-built-the-british-force-behind-star-wars

chipsteak said:

theforceuk said:

I've only watched one, can't seem to find one of them. I watched the one about Palitoy factory, what's the other one called?

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The Galaxy That Britain Built

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000cdzt/the-galaxy-britain-built-the-british-force-behind-star-wars

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Thanks.

Both great watches, enjoyed the staff interviews from Palitoy on the first episode. The speeder bike advert had me shouting 'I remember that!!' at the TV, first time I'd seen that in 30 odd years.

The longer documentary on the films was also really good and we especially loved the bits around how challenging it was to get R2 to work in the desert, hence the back up one pulled on fishing wire in the jawa canyon on Tatooine - brilliant! Even better when the crew told of how the RC one picked up Arabic radio in the middle of takes, priceless.

Well done the UK crew - I hadn't realised how much UK input there was in the original movies.

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Finally got round to watching the toy episode today, will have to save the film eposide for another time. Really enjoyed it, great to see interviews with people that sold, designed and even 'just' assembled or packaged the toys we all love.