This Was a Man: Audiobook
Book 7 of the Clifton Chronicles series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This Was a Man audiobook runs 12.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Alex Jennings (about 8.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 26 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 12.8 hours, it runs longer than 73% of the 5,422 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Alex Jennings
Alex Jennings narrates 65 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 634 hours in all.
- The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Audio Collection
- The Horse and His Boy
- Terry Pratchett: The BBC Radio Drama Collection: Seven full-cast dramatisations
- C. S. Lewis: The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, plus a brand new full-cast BBC adaptation of That Hideous Strength
- The Sins of the Father
About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
1,046 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Giver of Stars: Reese's Book Club
- Water for Elephants
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- The Invention of Wings
- The Diamond Eye
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
This Was a Man is book 7 of Jeffrey Archer's Clifton Chronicles series: a 12.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Alex Jennings, released November 3, 2016, on the Historical (Fiction) and Drama shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Alex Jennings
- Released
- November 3, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), Drama
- Series
- The Clifton Chronicles #7
- ISBN
- 9781509823222
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the This Was a Man audiobook?
This Was a Man runs 12.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.5 hours.
Is the This Was a Man audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates This Was a Man?
This Was a Man is narrated by Alex Jennings.
Is This Was a Man worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.5 hours, saving 4.3 hours.