Calling Birds (short story): Audiobook
Book 4 of the Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Calling Birds (short story) audiobook runs 0.3 hours unabridged, narrated by Ian Hanmore (about 0.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 0.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day | 1 day |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 0.3 hours, it is shorter than 93% of the 4,891 Short Stories audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas
This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 0.9 hours before it; books 1 to 12 run 3.4 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Partridge in a Pear Tree (short story) | 0.3 hrs |
| 2 | Turtle Doves (short story) | 0.2 hrs |
| 3 | French Hens (short story) | 0.4 hrs |
| 4 | Calling Birds (short story) | 0.3 hrs |
| 5 | Gold Rings (short story) | 0.2 hrs |
| 6 | Geese A Laying (short story) | 0.3 hrs |
| 7 | Swans A Swimming (short story) | 0.3 hrs |
| 8 | Maids A Milking (short story) | 0.3 hrs |
| 9 | Ladies Dancing (short story) | 0.3 hrs |
| 10 | Lords A Leaping (short story) | 0.3 hrs |
| 11 | Pipers Piping (short story) | 0.3 hrs |
| 12 | Drummers Drumming (short story) | 0.3 hrs |
More narrated by Ian Hanmore
Ian Hanmore narrates 27 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 181 hours in all.
About as long, on the Short Stories shelf
111 Short Stories 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
Calling Birds (short story) is book 4 of Stuart MacBride's Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas series: a 0.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Ian Hanmore, released December 4, 2011, on the Short Stories shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 0.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ian Hanmore
- Released
- December 4, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Short Stories
- Series
- Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas #4
- ISBN
- 9780007459308
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Calling Birds (short story) audiobook?
Calling Birds (short story) runs 0.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.2 hours.
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Who narrates Calling Birds (short story)?
Calling Birds (short story) is narrated by Ian Hanmore.