Rumpole: The Gentle Art of Blackmail & other stories: Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Rumpole: The Gentle Art of Blackmail & other stories: Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations audiobook runs 2.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch and Timothy West (about 2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 2.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day | 3 days |
| 2 hours / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 2 days |
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What our data says
- At 2.9 hours, it is shorter than 91% of the 62,518 Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch narrates 35 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 156 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Fiction shelf
900 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
Rumpole: The Gentle Art of Blackmail & other stories: Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations is an audiobook by John Clifford Mortimer: a 2.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Benedict Cumberbatch and Timothy West, released April 5, 2018, on the Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 2.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Benedict Cumberbatch, Timothy West
- Released
- April 5, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781785298981
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Rumpole: The Gentle Art of Blackmail & other stories: Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations audiobook?
Rumpole: The Gentle Art of Blackmail & other stories: Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations runs 2.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2 hours.
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Who narrates Rumpole: The Gentle Art of Blackmail & other stories: Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations?
Rumpole: The Gentle Art of Blackmail & other stories: Four BBC Radio 4 dramatisations is narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch and Timothy West.