Louis MacNeice: The Dark Tower, Christopher Columbus & more: Six Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Louis MacNeice: The Dark Tower, Christopher Columbus & more: Six Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas audiobook runs 8.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Matthew Tennyson and Mary Wimbush and others (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.6 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 2,498 Theatre & Radio audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Mary Wimbush
Mary Wimbush narrates 16 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 108 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Theatre & Radio shelf
61 Theatre & Radio 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
Louis MacNeice: The Dark Tower, Christopher Columbus & more: Six Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas is an audiobook by Louis MacNeice: a 8.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Matthew Tennyson, Mary Wimbush and Jude Akuwudike and others, released May 7, 2026, on the Theatre & Radio and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Matthew Tennyson, Mary Wimbush, Jude Akuwudike, Laurence Olivier, Margaret Rawlings, Harry Lloyd
- Released
- May 7, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Theatre & Radio, Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781529980974
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How long is the Louis MacNeice: The Dark Tower, Christopher Columbus & more: Six Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas audiobook?
Louis MacNeice: The Dark Tower, Christopher Columbus & more: Six Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas runs 8.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.7 hours.
Is the Louis MacNeice: The Dark Tower, Christopher Columbus & more: Six Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas audiobook free?
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Who narrates Louis MacNeice: The Dark Tower, Christopher Columbus & more: Six Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas?
Louis MacNeice: The Dark Tower, Christopher Columbus & more: Six Classic Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas is narrated by Matthew Tennyson, Mary Wimbush, Jude Akuwudike and Laurence Olivier and others.