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1. radiOM.org - KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 2: Erik Bauersfeld and a Dramatic Quarter Century [7.296% Popularity: 0.00000]

KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 2: Erik Bauersfeld and a Dramatic Quarter Century Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 130 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) The all day festivities celebrating KPFA’s 40th anniversary continues with a brief excerpt form the 10th anniversary program in which long time KPFA Public Affairs Director Elsa Knight Thompson ruminates on the groundbreaking political programing that was then, and is still today, a hallmark of the Pacifica stations. However the majority of this second segment of the 40th Anniversary Show is devoted to an interview with KPFA’s “Hero of the Hörspiel,” long time Drama and Literature Department Director, Erik Bauersfeld, whose productions of radio drama were legendary among KPFA listeners, and who is known to moviegoers worldwide for his roles as Admiral Akbar and Bib Fortuna in George Lucas’ Star Wars films. Bauersfeld, who become co-director of the Drama & Literature Department in 1963, and cont...

2. radiOM.org - Underground Woman: A Semi-Autobiographical Novel by Kay Boyle [5.096% Popularity: 0.00000]

Underground Woman: A Semi-Autobiographical Novel by Kay Boyle Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 40 min Event Type: Interview Program Origin: KPFA Erik Bauersfeld and Lee Jenkins of KPFA interview poet, author, and political activist, Kay Boyle, about her 1975 novel “The Underground Woman.” The novel, which is semi-autobiographical, follows the life of classics professor Athena’s experience being imprisoned for protesting the draft, as well as a later run-in with her daughter, who has joined a cult and tried to take over her mother’s house. An attempt that is thwarted when Athena gives ownership of the house to a third party. This is similar to the tact that Boyle herself had to take when her own child became involved with a cult during the 1960s. Genre: Literature Subject: Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 ; Literature ; Fiction ; Parent and child -- Fiction ; Cults -- Fiction ; Women -- Social conditions -- Fiction People: Bauersfeld, Erik ; Jenkins, Mercilee M. ; Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992 First Broadcast Date: 7/...

3. radiOM.org - KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 4: Elsa Knight Thompson & G. I. Gurdjieff [5.071% Popularity: 0.00000]

KPFA’s 40th Anniversary Show, Part 4: Elsa Knight Thompson & G. I. Gurdjieff Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 63 min Event Type: Interview and Music Program Origin: KPFA Additional Media Files (click to view) The all-day special broadcast celebrating KPFA’s 40th anniversary continues with a documentary about Elsa Knight Thompson. Throughout the 1960’s, KPFA Public Affairs Director Elsa Knight Thompson was an extraordinary and controversial programmer. Her experience with the BBC in London during World War II and in Washington D. C. at WCFM prepared her for a scintillating career as a radio journalist at KPFA, and her direct and incisive interviews of both left and right-wing figures were legendary. In this segment, Nancy Delaney presents a short overview of Thompson’s work, complete with recorded examples. Afterwards the minutes leading up to the exact time that KPFA first went on the air 40 years before are filled with the sound of the late philosopher Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff playing his melo...

4. radiOM.org - Kay Boyle Day: Part 2 [5.060% Popularity: 0.00000]

Kay Boyle Day: Part 2 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 180 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA On February 19, 1988, as part of a fund-raising marathon, KPFA presented a nine hour festival of programing in honor of Kay Boyle’s 86th birthday, which included interviews with the poet, author, and political activist and readings of her work. One of the most important American writers of the 20th century, Boyle was born in St. Paul, MN in 1902 and was educated at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She moved to France in 1923, and spent the next twenty years associating with the best and the brightest authors and artists of Europe. She became increasingly politically active and was eventually blacklisted during the McCarthy era. This however only encouraged her and she soon became heavily involved in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, and nuclear disarmament movements. She taught creative writing at San Francisco State University from 1962 to 1979. She published over 40 books, i...

5. radiOM.org - Kay Boyle Day: Part 3 [5.051% Popularity: 0.00000]

Kay Boyle Day: Part 3 Listen Item Type: Sound Recording Duration: 124 min Event Type: Spoken Word Program Origin: KPFA On February 19, 1988, as part of a fund-raising marathon, KPFA presented a nine hour festival of programing in honor of Kay Boyle’s 86th birthday, which included interviews with the poet, author, and political activist and readings of her work. One of the most important American writers of the 20th century, Boyle was born in St. Paul, MN in 1902 and was educated at The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She moved to France in 1923, and spent the next twenty years associating with the best and the brightest authors and artists of Europe. She became increasingly politically active and was eventually blacklisted during the McCarthy era. This however only encouraged her and she soon became heavily involved in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, and nuclear disarmament movements. She taught creative writing at San Francisco State University from 1962 to 1979. She published over 40 books, i...