You're listening to the BBC World Service. I'm Mark Berman and this is Living the Star Wars.

Look, I've got a very good feeling about this.

I don't think any of us can claim this was going to happen. I don't think any of us can claim this was going to happen.

I don't think George could claim it. Anybody could claim it. But being part of it was very exciting.

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. An incredible adventure took place.

Ninety-seven is indeed place.

1977 is indeed a very long time ago. As Star Wars episode 9 flood cinemas, I want to return you to a simpler

analog age, before the Disney Empire, before the spin-offs, the expanded

universe, thing parks, and all like Jedi Jazz. I was 13 when the 20th century Fox fanfare heralded plain unnumbered

numbered Star Wars and I was utterly lost in space when that great white triangle of a star destroyer

rumbled overhead and everyone instinctively ducked. This was the film I'd

been looking for and millions more seemed to agree. I devoured everything I can read about its creation,

a film both utterly modern and completely enthralled as cinema's collective past.

It was in a way my education in film.

Now, I and it are aging artifacts. In fact you'll be lucky to see it anywhere

in its original celluloid form. And time has taken many of the people who made it, many more than nearly as old as Yoda.

Over the years, I've been lucky enough to talk to most of them, from George Lucas,

to the man who was Biggs.

So this is the program you're looking for.

Every creation myth has a beginning.

This one starts in 1950 suburbia,

Modesto, California, where George Warton Lucas Jr.

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