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The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations by Charles Dickens

The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations runs 36.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Geraldine Mcewan and Ian Mckellen and others (about 24.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

36.6listening hrs
Classics (Literature)store shelf
2018released
Free for new listeners

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2 hours / day19 days
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What our data says

  • At 36.6 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 6,931 Classics (Literature) audiobooks in our catalog.

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About this listen

The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations is an audiobook by Charles Dickens: a 36.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Geraldine Mcewan, Ian Mckellen and Kenneth Cranham and others, released March 1, 2018, on the Classics (Literature) shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
36.6 hrs
Narrated by
Geraldine Mcewan, Ian Mckellen, Kenneth Cranham, Indira Varma, Andrew Scott, Robert Lindsay
Released
March 1, 2018
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Classics (Literature)
ISBN
9781787531796

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations as an audiobook?

The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations runs 36.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 24.4 hours.

Is The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations?

The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations is narrated by Geraldine Mcewan, Ian Mckellen, Kenneth Cranham and Indira Varma and others.

Is The Charles Dickens BBC Radio Drama Collection: The Later Years: Eight BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 24.4 hours, saving 12.2 hours.