Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus audiobook runs 16.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Mark Elstob (about 11.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 16.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 34 days |
| 1 hour / day | 17 days |
| 2 hours / day | 9 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 12 days |
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What our data says
- At 16.9 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Mark Elstob
Mark Elstob narrates 145 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,680 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
332 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Other recordings
- The 2021 recording read by Ben Onwukwe runs 0.4 hours shorter (16.5 hours).
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
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus is an audiobook by George Arbuthnott and Jonathan Calvert: a 16.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Mark Elstob, released March 24, 2022, on the Social Science shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 16.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mark Elstob
- Released
- March 24, 2022
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science
- ISBN
- 9780008551162
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus audiobook?
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus runs 16.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 11.2 hours.
Is the Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus audiobook free?
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Who narrates Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus?
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus is narrated by Mark Elstob.
Is Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 11.2 hours, saving 5.6 hours.