The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines runs 15.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Kirsten Potter (about 10.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 15.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 32 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 15.7 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Kirsten Potter
Kirsten Potter narrates 376 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,907 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
463 Social Science 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 Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines is an audiobook by Marie Brenner: a 15.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Kirsten Potter, released June 21, 2022, on the Social Science shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 15.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Kirsten Potter
- Released
- June 21, 2022
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science
- ISBN
- 9781250839220
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines as an audiobook?
The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines runs 15.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.5 hours.
Is The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines?
The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines is narrated by Kirsten Potter.
Is The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.5 hours, saving 5.2 hours.