The Final Hours Hour

The world is over...but the show must go on

"Curl yourselves up with a nice mug of tea. If you don't have tea, just a mug of hot water. If you don't have heat, just a mug of water. If you don't have water, just a mug. If you don't have a mug, just your hopes and dreams will do. If you don't have those...anyway, here's a song."

Tune in, if you can, to The Final Hours Hour: the world's best, and perhaps only, radio programme. One lone soul surviving in a bunker is broadcasting a radio show to anyone who might be listening across the very dead air. The Final Hours Hour is a solo comedy play about loneliness, our dying planet, and the things we do to counteract them both. Also: onions.

Clever and silly, bleak and fun, a cry for help and a declaration of acceptance.

Presented by: Ben Volchok

Ben Volchok is a Melbourne-based writer and comedian. He has created and performed in numerous shows in the Melbourne Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, as well as for radio and podcasting. His work has also been published in Melbourne magazines such as Funny Ha Ha and Going Down Swinging. His short film "The Elderly Macdonald" was screened as part of the inaugural Melbourne Paracinema Festival in 2018. He is a past winner of The University of Melbourne's Campus Comedy competition, alongside such established artists as Hamish Blake, Ronny Chieng, and Sammy J. The Final Hours Hour is Ben's seventh full-length solo show.