Avalanche (radio play)

Avalanche is a 1934 Australian radio drama by Max Afford. It was a significant work in Afford's early career.^[2]

The play involved complex sound effects for the time.^[3]

The play was popular and was repeated in 1934^[4]^[5] and produced again in 1935^[6] and 1936.^[7]

The play was performed by the BBC at a time when that was rare for Australian plays.^[8]

Premise[edit]

A mountain guide, Hanns Trenker, and an English woman, Harriet Pringle, are marooned in the Tyrol region of the Swiss Alps.

^ "Fourth Tennis Test From 5CL-CK". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 3 February 1934. p. 9. Retrieved 21 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
^ Australasian Radio Relay League. (April 17, 1936), "Young Playwrights", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 27 (16), Sydney: Wireless Press, nla.obj-712009657, retrieved 21 October 2023 – via Trove
^ "Head-On Train Collision in a Radio Thriller". News. Vol. XXIII, no. 3, 536. South Australia. 19 November 1934. p. 6. Retrieved 21 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Monday March 5", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 23 (9), Sydney: Wireless Press, March 2, 1934, nla.obj-729774250, retrieved 21 October 2023 – via Trove
^ "Newmarket Handicap From 5CL-CK". The Advertiser (Adelaide). South Australia. 3 March 1934. p. 15. Retrieved 21 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Variety on the Air Tonight". News. Vol. XXIV, no. 3, 628. South Australia. 7 March 1935. p. 16. Retrieved 21 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Thursday June 11", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, 27 (23), Sydney: Wireless Press, June 5, 1936, nla.obj-712067563, retrieved 21 October 2023 – via Trove
^ "The Talk of the Town". The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 23, no. 1, 148. South Australia. 26 May 1934. p. 7. Retrieved 21 October 2023 – via National Library of Australia.