The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation plus selected short stories: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation plus selected short stories runs 9.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Hannah Watkins and Clive Owen and others (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.8 hours, it runs longer than 50% of the 11,102 Drama audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Kate Buffery
Kate Buffery narrates 4 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 44 hours in all.
About as long, on the Drama shelf
3,278 Drama audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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About this listen
The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation plus selected short stories is an audiobook by A. S. Byatt: a 9.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Hannah Watkins, Clive Owen and Kate Buffery and others, released November 11, 2021, on the Drama and Coming of Age shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Hannah Watkins, Clive Owen, Kate Buffery, Indira Varma, Penelope Wilton, Sheila Mitchell
- Released
- November 11, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Drama, Coming of Age
- ISBN
- 9781529143805
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation plus selected short stories as an audiobook?
The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation plus selected short stories runs 9.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
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Who narrates The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation plus selected short stories?
The Frederica Quartet: The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower & A Whistling Woman: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation plus selected short stories is narrated by Hannah Watkins, Clive Owen, Kate Buffery and Indira Varma and others.