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National Velvet by Mr Punch

National Velvet: Audiobook

by Mr Punch · narrated by Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor · unabridged · 2022

Book 9 of the Hollywood Playhouse series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the National Velvet audiobook runs 0.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor (about 0.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

0.8listening hrs
Action & Adventure (Fiction)store shelf
2022released
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What our data says

  • At 0.8 hours, it is shorter than 95% of the 6,730 Action & Adventure (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on Hollywood Playhouse

This is book 9. Books 1 to 8 run 18.2 hours before it; books 1 to 15 run 23.9 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Hollywood Playhouse Box Set9.4 hrs
2Humphrey Bogart Box Set2.4 hrs
3Hollywood Heartthrobs Box Set2.3 hrs
4The African Queen: Adapted from the screenplay & performed for radio by the original film stars0.8 hrs
5All About Eve: Adapted from the screenplay & performed for radio by the original film stars0.9 hrs
6Casablanca & The Maltese Falcon0.8 hrs
7It Happened One Night: Adapted from the screenplay & performed for radio by the original film stars0.8 hrs
8It’s a Wonderful Life: Adapted from the screenplay & performed for radio by the original film stars0.9 hrs
9National Velvet0.8 hrs
10Philadelphia Story & Holiday Inn: Adapted from the screenplay & performed for radio by the original film stars0.8 hrs
11Rebecca: Adapted from the screenplay & performed for radio by the original film stars0.9 hrs
12Shane0.8 hrs

About as long, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) shelf

80 Action & Adventure (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

National Velvet is book 9 of Mr Punch's Hollywood Playhouse series: a 0.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor, released April 18, 2022, on the Action & Adventure (Fiction) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
0.8 hrs
Narrated by
Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor
Released
April 18, 2022
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Action & Adventure (Fiction)
Series
Hollywood Playhouse #9
ISBN
9781900912716

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the National Velvet audiobook?

National Velvet runs 0.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.6 hours.

Is the National Velvet audiobook free?

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Who narrates National Velvet?

National Velvet is narrated by Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor.