Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) Collection, 1961-2016

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Summary

Title:
Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) Collection
Dates:
1961-2016
Extent:
124 box(es)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) Colleciton (ARS.0220). Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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).

Acquisition information:
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.
Arrangement:

This collection is organized into two series: Organization records and Sound and moving image recordings.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2022-11-08 13:45:56 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

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.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) Colleciton (ARS.0220). Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA.

Location of this collection:
Braun Music Center, 541 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3076, US
Contact:
(650) 723-9312
soundarchive@stanford.edu
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