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A Ballad of John Silver

by John Masefield (1878-1967)

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of A Ballad of John Silver, by John Masefield, to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 17th, 2006.

• E-text
• Wikipedia – John Masefield
• LibriVox’s A Ballad of John Silver Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (9.5MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes

Total running time: 0:19:42

mp3 and ogg files

• Version 1 – 00:02:24
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.3MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.8MB]
  Read by: Cori Samuel
• Version 2 – 00:02:07
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.0MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.4MB]
  Read by: Glen Hallstrom
• Version 3 – 00:02:22
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Kristin Hughes
• Version 4 – 00:02:03
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.9MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: Kara Shallenberg
• Version 5 – 00:01:55
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Michael Sirois
• Version 6 – 00:01:56
  [mp3@64kbps - 0.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 1.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: Micah Sheppard
• Version 7 – 00:02:15
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.0MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.1MB]
  Read by: Robin Cotter
• Version 8 – 00:02:20
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.3MB]
  Read by: Sean McKinley
• Version 9 – 00:02:20
  [mp3@64kbps - 1.1MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.6MB]
  Read by: Ted Delorme

Cataloged on September 24, 2006