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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True by Richard Dawkins

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True runs 6.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Lalla Ward and Richard Dawkins (about 4.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

6.5listening hrs
Social Sciencestore shelf
2011released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 6.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True at common listening paces
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30 min / day13 days
1 hour / day7 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×5 days

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What our data says

  • At 6.5 hours, it is shorter than 69% of the 5,303 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by Lalla Ward

Lalla Ward narrates 13 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 100 hours in all.

About as long, on the Social Science shelf

672 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True is an audiobook by Richard Dawkins: a 6.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Lalla Ward and Richard Dawkins, released October 4, 2011, on the Social Science and Biology & Chemistry shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
6.5 hrs
Narrated by
Lalla Ward, Richard Dawkins
Released
October 4, 2011
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Social Science, Biology & Chemistry
ISBN
9781442341777

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True as an audiobook?

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True runs 6.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.3 hours.

Is The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True?

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True is narrated by Lalla Ward and Richard Dawkins.