Brief Apocalypse Explained

Brief Apocalypse
Format:verse drama
Runtime:45mins
Start Time:10pm
End Time:10.45pm
Country:Australia
Language:English
Syndicates:ABC
Director:John Cairns
First Aired:28 October 1943

Brief Apocalypse is a 1943 Australian radio play by Kenneth Mackenzie.[1] According to ABC Weekly the "play is a sincere and moving statement of young men’s confusion and search for a faith."

Mackenzie was better known as a novelist. The play was much acclaimed.[2] [3]

It was broadcast by the ABC as part of a series of ten verse dramas on radio. The others included The Golden Lover, The Real Betrayal, We're Going Through, It Has Happened Before, Mined Gold, Succubus, The Unmapped Lands, Fear and Richard Bracken-Farmer.

Notes and References

  1. News: BROADCASTING . . 30,318 . Victoria, Australia . 28 October 1943 . 1 February 2024 . 5 . National Library of Australia.
  2. Geering, R. G. (1966). Seaforth MacKenzie’s fiction: Another view. Southerly, 26(1), 25–39. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.327240483441518
  3. Veronica Brady, 'Mackenzie, Kenneth Ivo (Seaforth) (1913–1955)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mackenzie-kenneth-ivo-seaforth-10987/text19533, published first in hardcopy 2000, accessed online 1 February 2024.