nhp audio star wars universe

introduction

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Delving back into the mists of time to the 1980's, here's some background about the history of Newbold-Hicks Productions (NHP) and what it did during the mid-late 1980’s.
The NHP Star Wars Universe was begun with the first audio story, Trouble on Tantum V. Initially set to be a 1985 cine film by the NHP Movie Division (who had already made a number of short films including Brownihills Cops – The Chase and F.B. ‘86) the TOTV script found its way to the audio world, and from there the audio adventures began. Over the course of the next eighteen months NHP produced twenty audio stories and NHP Books began short stories such as Diary of Galante, The Main Attraction and Wrong Side of Hell. Taking many of the initial characters and locations from the Search Continues Trilogy of 1982/1983 and driven mainly by the stories of Jonathan Hicks, NHP swiftly expanded that universe, adding ideas through the New Universe expansion and the Chatroot and the Howlrunners stories.
one of only two remaining nhp cassettes, this one being the tatooine effect
The production of the audio dramas followed a detailed and well thought out process, spearheaded by the technical work of Jonathan, who detailed the processes of using multiple cassette recorders for music and effects.  Even the age-old problem of edits was erased by clever use of the recorders.  Both Mark and Jonathan had their own sound effects companies.  Mark had ISE (Industrial Sound Effects) and Jonathan had SEL (Sound Effects Laboratories).  When working together, or planning cine films, like the partially storyboarded but never started Trouble on Tantum V, they worked as ISEL.
1988 saw the beginning of the RPG era and an end to the NHP Star Wars Universe as an audio endeavour. Many audio stories were left unproduced, including The Lydon Legacy, The Search Continues and Quest for Freedom, which was begun but never completed.
Jonathans house move in 1990 resulted in the loss of the entire NHP Star Wars Audio Universe apart from twenty minutes of First Deal with Jabba the Hutt and some brief clips on the NHP Hits Album.
 

and one of the few remaining examples of the audio era, the cover to jewel of janos...