The Need For Nonsense: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Need For Nonsense: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation runs 0.7 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Ross Mckendrick and James Rastall and others (about 0.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 0.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 2 days |
| 1 hour / day | 1 day |
| 2 hours / day | 1 day |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 1 day |
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What our data says
- At 0.7 hours, it is shorter than 87% of the 8,856 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog.
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Mark Meadows narrates 236 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,168 hours in all.
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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 Need For Nonsense: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation is an audiobook by Julia Blackburn: a 0.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Ross Mckendrick, James Rastall and Alexi Kaye-Campbell and others, released July 1, 2011, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 0.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ross Mckendrick, James Rastall, Alexi Kaye-Campbell, Mark Meadows, Kim Hicks, Andrew Sachs
- Released
- July 1, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Arts & Entertainment
- ISBN
- 9781445863726
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Need For Nonsense: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation as an audiobook?
The Need For Nonsense: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation runs 0.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 0.5 hours.
Is The Need For Nonsense: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Need For Nonsense: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation?
The Need For Nonsense: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation is narrated by Ross Mckendrick, James Rastall, Alexi Kaye-Campbell and Mark Meadows and others.