Holding Back the Tide: A BBC Radio full-cast comedy drama: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Holding Back the Tide: A BBC Radio full-cast comedy drama audiobook runs 3.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Kate Duchêne and Paul Ritter and others (about 2.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 3.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day | 4 days |
| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 3 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 3.6 hours, it is shorter than 89% of the 62,518 Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Paul Ritter
Paul Ritter narrates 7 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 42 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Fiction shelf
1,292 Fiction 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
Holding Back the Tide: A BBC Radio full-cast comedy drama is an audiobook by Nick Warburton: a 3.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Kate Duchêne, Paul Ritter and Ronald Pickup, released April 16, 2020, on the Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 3.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Kate Duchêne, Paul Ritter, Ronald Pickup
- Released
- April 16, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781529126693
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Holding Back the Tide: A BBC Radio full-cast comedy drama audiobook?
Holding Back the Tide: A BBC Radio full-cast comedy drama runs 3.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.4 hours.
Is the Holding Back the Tide: A BBC Radio full-cast comedy drama audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Holding Back the Tide: A BBC Radio full-cast comedy drama?
Holding Back the Tide: A BBC Radio full-cast comedy drama is narrated by Kate Duchêne, Paul Ritter and Ronald Pickup.