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Pacifica Radio Archives’ “From the Vault”
Each week the Pacifica Radio Archives chooses a program "From the Vault" of broadcasts in a half-hour program.
In this episode of From the Vault, we remember longtime KPFA Drama & Literature Director Erik Bauersfeld, who passed away at the age of 94 on Sunday, April 3, 2016. Bauersfeld was a talented voice-over actor and radio drama producer, who blessed Pacifica Radio with an incredible legacy spanning six decades. Among his many notable accomplishments in radio and film, Bauersfeld voiced the part of Admiral Ackbar in the third film of the ‘original’ Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi.
Our tribute to Bauersfeld today will highlight two of his superb recordings held in the collection at Pacifica Radio Archives. We begin with the 1967 dramatic reading of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, starring Martin and Nancy Ponch, Chris Lighthill, Shirley Jones, Toby Halpern, and Erik Bauersfeld as the “Ridiculous Man.” We then listen to a 1967 radio performance of two monologues Bauersfeld adapted from Dorothy Parker’s Arrangement in Black and White and But the One on My Right, starring Ann Content and Norma Jean Wanvig.
Learn more about Erik Bauersfeld at BardRadio.com.
