Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) Collection
ARS.0220
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Archive of Recorded Sound
Title: Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) Collection
Identifier/Call Number: ARS.0220
Physical Description:
124 box(es)
Date (inclusive): 1961-2016
Open for research; material must be requested at least three business days in advance of
intended use. Contact the Archive of Recorded Sound for assistance.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) Collection was acquired by the Stanford Archive of Recorded
Sound from the estate of Erik Bernard Bauersfeld in 2018.
This collection is organized into two series: Organization records and Sound and moving
image recordings.
The Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) was established as a nonprofit organization in 1987 by Erik
Bauersfeld with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and other national and
international sources. BARD has worked in close association with KPFA-FM, in Berkeley,
California, where Bauersfeld, was Director of Drama and Literature from 1961-1992.
BARD collaborated with Earwax Studios editing the sound production for Santa Monica's
public radio member station KCRW's 29-part dramatization of Sinclair Lewis's Babbit. With
sound designer Randy Thom BARD produced the Eugene O'Neill Radio Series. Titles within this
series include Hughie, Emperor Jones and Lazarus Laughed. In association with Westdeutscher
Rundfunk Köln (WDR), Bard produced Hörspiel USA, a series of translated works representing a
wide range of material produced in Germany following World War Two.
All BARD productions were first broadcast on KPFA, then to other stations via National
Public Radio and overseas to BBC, Australian Radio, WDR Köln and Public Radio
International.
Erik Bauersfeld (1992-2016) was an American radio dramatist, teacher and voice actor. He
began working at Pacifica Radio station KPFA-FM in Berkeley 1961 serving as Director of
KPFA's Drama and Literature Department for 31 years.
Bauersfeld voiced the characters for Admiral Ackbar and Bib Fortuna in Star Wars: Episode
VI Return of the Jedi (1983) and Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens (2015).
Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) Colleciton (ARS.0220). Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA.
This collection contains material amassed by Erik Bauersfeld relating to his work with the
Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) organization dating from 1961-2016. Included are organizational
records, reseach materials, correspondence, scripts and sound and moving image recordings of
various BARD productons.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head Librarian, Archive of Recorded Sound, Braun Music
Center, Stanford, California 94305. Consent is given on behalf of the Archive of Recorded
Sound as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s)
or assigns.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Radio broadcasting
Drama Productions
Interviews.
Oral history
Sound recording industry
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Radio plays -- Production and direction.
Lectures and lecturing.