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The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Archive highlights from the popular Radio 4 comedy by BBC Audiobooks

The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Archive highlights from the popular Radio 4 comedy: Audiobook

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According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Archive highlights from the popular Radio 4 comedy runs 8.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Alan Coren and Barry Took and others (about 5.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.2listening hrs
Comedy, Satire & Parodystore shelf
2017released
Free for new listeners

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30 min / day17 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 8.2 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 4,209 Comedy, Satire & Parody audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Comedy, Satire & Parody shelf

585 Comedy, Satire & Parody 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 News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Archive highlights from the popular Radio 4 comedy is an audiobook by BBC Audiobooks: a 8.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Alan Coren, Barry Took and Simon Hoggart, released August 10, 2017, on the Comedy, Satire & Parody shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.2 hrs
Narrated by
Alan Coren, Barry Took, Simon Hoggart
Released
August 10, 2017
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Comedy, Satire & Parody
Series
The News Quiz
ISBN
9781785298196

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Archive highlights from the popular Radio 4 comedy as an audiobook?

The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Archive highlights from the popular Radio 4 comedy runs 8.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.5 hours.

Is The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Archive highlights from the popular Radio 4 comedy free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Archive highlights from the popular Radio 4 comedy?

The News Quiz: A Vintage Collection: Archive highlights from the popular Radio 4 comedy is narrated by Alan Coren, Barry Took and Simon Hoggart.