W. S. Gilbert - Listen Audiobooks Online

Comedy

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W. S. Gilbert - Gondoliers

In typical Gilbert and Sullivan «Topsy Turvy» style, the King of Barataria has gone missing! He was stolen as a baby and raised in secrecy as one of two gondoliers (nobody knows which) and his wife would like very...

1 hour 39 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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W. S. Gilbert - Etiquette

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 Arthur Sullivan....

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 1 hour 4 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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W. S. Gilbert - Usher's Charge

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...

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 10 minutes

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Mikado, Or The Town of Titipu (version 2)

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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W. S. Gilbert - Mikado, Or The Town of Titipu (version 2)

In the town of Titipu, flirting is punishable by death on the command of the Mikado himself! But what happens when the Lord High Executioner is himself condemned to die? And what secret does the wandering minstrel...

1 hour 33 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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W. S. Gilbert - Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities

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...

David Lawrence and 8 more 16 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

358

W. S. Gilbert - Poetry Everywhere

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...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 8 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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W. S. Gilbert - Iolanthe

Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to the waist, but his legs are human. He loves Phyllis, but she is courted by the...

1 hour 21 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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W. S. Gilbert - Bab Ballads (version 2)

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 2 hours 47 minutes

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Comedy

386

W. S. Gilbert - Patience (Bunthorne's Bride)

A comic operetta which is a satire on the themes of fashion and pretension and hero-worship. Bunthorne is a poet who pretends to be highly «idealised» in order to impress the ladies. They all worship him, except for...

1 hour 35 minutes

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Pirates Of Penzance; Or The Slave Of Duty (Version 2)

Comedy

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W. S. Gilbert - Pirates Of Penzance; Or The Slave Of Duty (Version 2)

In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan’s music and the interpretation of actors, the consummate silliness of...

David Wales 1 hour 11 minutes

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H.M.S. Pinafore; Or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor

Published 1800 -1900

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W. S. Gilbert - H.M.S. Pinafore; Or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor

In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan’s music and the interpretation of actors, the consummate silliness of...

David Wales 1 hour 2 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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W. S. Gilbert - Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu

In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan’s music and the interpretation of actors, the consummate silliness of...

David Wales 1 hour 33 minutes

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