The Time is Not Yet Ripe: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Time is Not Yet Ripe, credited to Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson, 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 recording of The Time is Not Yet Ripe by Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson. Read in English by a full cast. Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson (1878 - 1943) was an Australian poet, journalist and playwright. He was born in Edinburgh but moved to Melbourne, Australia when he was three. He attended the University of Melbourne and began working as a journalist and playwright soon after. His best known work is the political comedy, The Time is Not Yet Ripe, first performed in 1912. It has since come to be acknowledged as an Australian classic, and has often been revived. - Summary Adapted from Wikipedia by Algy Pug Cast list: Sir Joseph Quiverton: Algy Pug Doris: Beth Thomas English Butler: Frances Brown Sir Henry Pilsbury: Jon Smith Lady Pilsbury: ToddHW John K. Hill: Nick Bulka Sydney Barrett/Socialists: Kristin Gjerløw Miss Perkins: Libby Gohn Otto/Socialists: Lars Rolander Harry Hopkins/Socialists: Phil Benson Peter Jensen/Socialists: Lars Rolander Arthur Gray/Socialists: Peter Tucker Bertie Wainwright: Ben Lindsey-Clark Violet Faulkner: Savannah A Fat Man/Crowd: bala A Cheeky Youth/Crowd: Victoria P A Working Woman/Crowd: Availle An Old Man/Crowd: Robert Dixon Narrator: Janet Edited by: ToddHW Coordinated by: Algy Pug

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Time is Not Yet Ripe
• Author credits: Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:55:33

Catalogue topics

• politics
• drama
• 1912
• australia
• esson
• election

Track guide

1. 01 - Act 1 — 28:35
2. 02 - Act 2 — 38:08
3. 03 - Act 3 — 24:10
4. 04 - Act 4 — 24:40

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