Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives audiobook runs 12.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Liam Gerrard (about 8.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 12.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 25 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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What our data says
- At 12.2 hours, it runs longer than 85% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Liam Gerrard
Liam Gerrard narrates 191 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,670 hours in all.
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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
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives is an audiobook by Danny Dorling: a 12.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Liam Gerrard, released May 19, 2020, on the Social Science and World shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Liam Gerrard
- Released
- May 19, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, World
- ISBN
- 9781705219263
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How long is the Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives audiobook?
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives runs 12.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.1 hours.
Is the Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives audiobook free?
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Who narrates Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives?
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives is narrated by Liam Gerrard.
Is Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.1 hours, saving 4.1 hours.