The Curious Life of the Cuckoo: A beautifully illustrated celebration of the iconic bird from Britain’s finest nature writer: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Curious Life of the Cuckoo: A beautifully illustrated celebration of the iconic bird from Britain’s finest nature writer runs 1.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Roy McMillan (about 1.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 1.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day | 2 days |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 2 days |
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What our data says
- At 1.6 hours, it is shorter than 87% of the 4,073 Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Roy McMillan
Roy McMillan narrates 69 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 626 hours in all.
About as long, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf
54 Animals & Nature (Non-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
The Curious Life of the Cuckoo: A beautifully illustrated celebration of the iconic bird from Britain’s finest nature writer is an audiobook by John Lewis-Stempel: a 1.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Roy McMillan, released March 6, 2025, on the Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 1.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Roy McMillan
- Released
- March 6, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781529962703
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Curious Life of the Cuckoo: A beautifully illustrated celebration of the iconic bird from Britain’s finest nature writer as an audiobook?
The Curious Life of the Cuckoo: A beautifully illustrated celebration of the iconic bird from Britain’s finest nature writer runs 1.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 1.1 hours.
Is The Curious Life of the Cuckoo: A beautifully illustrated celebration of the iconic bird from Britain’s finest nature writer free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Curious Life of the Cuckoo: A beautifully illustrated celebration of the iconic bird from Britain’s finest nature writer?
The Curious Life of the Cuckoo: A beautifully illustrated celebration of the iconic bird from Britain’s finest nature writer is narrated by Roy McMillan.