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Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama by Colin Haydn Evans

Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama audiobook runs 3.9 hours unabridged, narrated by James Tefler and Philip Anthony and others (about 2.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

3.9listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2023released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 3.9 hours of listening.

Days to finish Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day8 days
1 hour / day4 days
2 hours / day2 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×3 days

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What our data says

  • At 3.9 hours, it is shorter than 56% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Classics (Literature) shelf

281 Classics (Literature) 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

Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama is an audiobook by Colin Haydn Evans: a 3.9-hour unabridged recording, read by James Tefler, Philip Anthony and Carolyn Backhouse and others, released November 16, 2023, on the Classics (Literature) and Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature) shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
3.9 hrs
Narrated by
James Tefler, Philip Anthony, Carolyn Backhouse, Geoffrey Banks, Mary Wimbush, John Baddeley
Released
November 16, 2023
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature), Fairy Tales & Folklore (Literature)
ISBN
9781529911923

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama audiobook?

Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama runs 3.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.6 hours.

Is the Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama audiobook free?

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Who narrates Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama?

Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama is narrated by James Tefler, Philip Anthony, Carolyn Backhouse and Geoffrey Banks and others.