Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities, credited to W. S. Gilbert, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2016. Read in English by David Lawrence; Esther ben Simonides; Newgatenovelist; Ian King; Lee Ann Howlett; Leonard Wilson; MaryAnnS; Matthew Datcher and Tomas Peter. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light verse accompanied by his own comical drawings. His creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, numerous stories, poems, lyrics and various other comic and serious pieces. His plays and realistic style of stage direction inspired other dramatists, including Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. ( Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities
• Author credits: W. S. Gilbert
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 16:44

Catalogue topics

• satire
• poetry
• humor
• theatre
• actors
• actress

Track guide

1. 01 - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by DL — 1:58
2. 02 - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by EBS — 1:54
3. 03 - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by EL — 1:37
4. 04 - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by IK — 1:46
5. 05 - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by LAH — 1:52
6. 06 - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by LLW — 2:06
7. 07 - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by MAS — 1:58
8. 08 - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by MSD — 1:54
9. 09 - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - Read by TP — 1:39

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