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The Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK

The Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained runs 15.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Peter Guiness (about 10 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

15.1listening hrs
Arts & Entertainmentstore shelf
2020released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 15.1 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day31 days
1 hour / day16 days
2 hours / day8 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×11 days

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What our data says

  • At 15.1 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 8,856 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf

422 Arts & Entertainment 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 Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained is an audiobook by DK: a 15.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Peter Guiness, released January 23, 2020, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
15.1 hrs
Narrated by
Peter Guiness
Released
January 23, 2020
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Arts & Entertainment
ISBN
9780241459263

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained as an audiobook?

The Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained runs 15.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10 hours.

Is The Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained free as an audiobook?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates The Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained?

The Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained is narrated by Peter Guiness.

Is The Movie Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10 hours, saving 5 hours.