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The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Complete BBC Radio Series by Alexander McCall Smith

The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Complete BBC Radio Series: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Complete BBC Radio Series runs 26.2 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Janice Acquah and Claire Benedict and others (about 17.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

26.2listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2023released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 26.2 hours of listening.

Days to finish The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Complete BBC Radio Series at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day53 days
1 hour / day27 days
2 hours / day14 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×18 days

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What our data says

  • At 26.2 hours, it runs longer than 100% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

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 No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Complete BBC Radio Series is an audiobook by Alexander McCall Smith: a 26.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Janice Acquah, Claire Benedict and Joseph Marcell and others, released January 5, 2023, on the Police & Detective shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
26.2 hrs
Narrated by
Janice Acquah, Claire Benedict, Joseph Marcell, Nadine Marshall, Ben Onwukwe
Released
January 5, 2023
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective
ISBN
9781529186987

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Complete BBC Radio Series as an audiobook?

The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Complete BBC Radio Series runs 26.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 17.5 hours.

Is The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Complete BBC Radio Series free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Complete BBC Radio Series?

The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Complete BBC Radio Series is narrated by Janice Acquah, Claire Benedict, Joseph Marcell and Nadine Marshall and others.

Is The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Complete BBC Radio Series worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 17.5 hours, saving 8.7 hours.