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The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ rival detectives: 16 BBC Radio full-cast dramas by R.Austin Freeman, Louisa Pirkis

The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ rival detectives: 16 BBC Radio full-cast dramas: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ rival detectives: 16 BBC Radio full-cast dramas runs 7.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by James Fleet and Tim Mcinnerny and others (about 4.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.4listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

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What our data says

  • At 7.4 hours, it is shorter than 67% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

4,313 Police & Detective 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 Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ rival detectives: 16 BBC Radio full-cast dramas is an audiobook by R.Austin Freeman, Louisa Pirkis and Matthias Mcdonnel Bodkin: a 7.4-hour unabridged recording, read by James Fleet, Tim Mcinnerny and Andrew Scott and others, released April 8, 2021, on the Police & Detective and Suspense shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.4 hrs
Narrated by
James Fleet, Tim Mcinnerny, Andrew Scott, Marcia Warren, Honeysuckle Weeks, Paul Rhys
Released
April 8, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Suspense
ISBN
9781529142303

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ rival detectives: 16 BBC Radio full-cast dramas as an audiobook?

The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ rival detectives: 16 BBC Radio full-cast dramas runs 7.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.9 hours.

Is The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ rival detectives: 16 BBC Radio full-cast dramas free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ rival detectives: 16 BBC Radio full-cast dramas?

The Rivals: Tales of Sherlock Holmes’ rival detectives: 16 BBC Radio full-cast dramas is narrated by James Fleet, Tim Mcinnerny, Andrew Scott and Marcia Warren and others.