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This Sceptred Isle: Empire: The Classic BBC Radio History by Christopher Lee

This Sceptred Isle: Empire: The Classic BBC Radio History: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This Sceptred Isle: Empire: The Classic BBC Radio History audiobook runs 22.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Rob Brydon and Christopher Eccleston and others (about 14.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

22.2listening hrs
Europestore shelf
2021released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 22.2 hours of listening.

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30 min / day45 days
1 hour / day23 days
2 hours / day12 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×15 days

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What our data says

  • At 22.2 hours, it runs longer than 95% of the 3,272 Europe 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

This Sceptred Isle: Empire: The Classic BBC Radio History is an audiobook by Christopher Lee: a 22.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Rob Brydon, Christopher Eccleston and Mark Heap and others, released July 1, 2021, on the Europe shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
22.2 hrs
Narrated by
Rob Brydon, Christopher Eccleston, Mark Heap, Martin Freeman, Denis Lawson, Anna Massey
Released
July 1, 2021
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Europe
ISBN
9781529142211

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the This Sceptred Isle: Empire: The Classic BBC Radio History audiobook?

This Sceptred Isle: Empire: The Classic BBC Radio History runs 22.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 14.8 hours.

Is the This Sceptred Isle: Empire: The Classic BBC Radio History audiobook free?

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

Who narrates This Sceptred Isle: Empire: The Classic BBC Radio History?

This Sceptred Isle: Empire: The Classic BBC Radio History is narrated by Rob Brydon, Christopher Eccleston, Mark Heap and Martin Freeman and others.

Is This Sceptred Isle: Empire: The Classic BBC Radio History worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 14.8 hours, saving 7.4 hours.