Brief Answers to the Big Questions: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Brief Answers to the Big Questions audiobook runs 4.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Ben Whishaw and Lucy Hawking and others (about 3.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 4.9 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 4.9 hours, it is shorter than 86% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Garrick Hagon
Garrick Hagon narrates 18 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 114 hours in all.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
689 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Brief Answers to the Big Questions is an audiobook by Stephen Hawking: a 4.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Ben Whishaw, Lucy Hawking and Garrick Hagon, released October 16, 2018, on the Memoirs and Astronomy & Physics shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 4.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ben Whishaw, Lucy Hawking, Garrick Hagon
- Released
- October 16, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Astronomy & Physics
- ISBN
- 9781984844620
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Brief Answers to the Big Questions audiobook?
Brief Answers to the Big Questions runs 4.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.2 hours.
Is the Brief Answers to the Big Questions audiobook free?
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Who narrates Brief Answers to the Big Questions?
Brief Answers to the Big Questions is narrated by Ben Whishaw, Lucy Hawking and Garrick Hagon.