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Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey: A BBC Radio Collection by Thomas Love Peacock

Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey: A BBC Radio Collection: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey: A BBC Radio Collection audiobook runs 5.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Caroline Gruber and Esme Percy and others (about 3.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

5.5listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2026released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 5.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey: A BBC Radio Collection at common listening paces
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30 min / day11 days
1 hour / day6 days
2 hours / day3 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×4 days

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What our data says

  • At 5.5 hours, it runs longer than 52% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

385 Classics (Literature) 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

Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey: A BBC Radio Collection is an audiobook by Thomas Love Peacock: a 5.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Caroline Gruber, Esme Percy and Michael Horden and others, released October 22, 2026, on the Classics (Literature) and Comedy, Satire & Parody shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
5.5 hrs
Narrated by
Caroline Gruber, Esme Percy, Michael Horden, Daniel Massey, Andrew Branch, Alan Dudley
Released
October 22, 2026
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature), Comedy, Satire & Parody
ISBN
9781529992922

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey: A BBC Radio Collection audiobook?

Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey: A BBC Radio Collection runs 5.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.7 hours.

Is the Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey: A BBC Radio Collection audiobook free?

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Who narrates Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey: A BBC Radio Collection?

Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle & Nightmare Abbey: A BBC Radio Collection is narrated by Caroline Gruber, Esme Percy, Michael Horden and Daniel Massey and others.