The Usher's Charge: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Usher's Charge, 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 The Usher's Charge by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 11, 2016. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk; Beth Thomas; David Lawrence; Greg Giordano; Jason in Panama; Lee Ann Howlett; Leonard Wilson; 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. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado. In 1890, Gilbert produced Songs of a Savoyard, (the source of this Weekly Poem), a volume of sixty-nine detached lyrics from the Savoy Operas, each with a new title, and some of them slightly reworded to account for the changed context. (Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Usher's Charge
• Author credits: W. S. Gilbert
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 9:18

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• humour
• justice
• jury
• sartire

Track guide

1. 01 - The Usher's Charge - Read by BK — 1:14
2. 02 - The Usher's Charge - Read by BLT — 0:58
3. 03 - The Usher's Charge - Read by DL — 1:03
4. 04 - The Usher's Charge - Read by GG — 1:36
5. 05 - The Usher's Charge - Read by JCB — 1:12
6. 06 - The Usher's Charge - Read by LAH — 1:12
7. 07 - The Usher's Charge - Read by LLW — 1:18
8. 08 - The Usher's Charge - Read by MSD — 1:04
9. 09 - The Usher's Charge - Read by TP — 0:59

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