What’s Wrong with the World: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the What’s Wrong with the World audiobook runs 6.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Bernard Mayes (about 4.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 6.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 6.9 hours, it is shorter than 69% of the 8,990 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Bernard Mayes
Bernard Mayes narrates 21 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 524 hours in all.
About as long, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelf
1,044 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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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
What’s Wrong with the World is an audiobook by G.K. Chesterton: a 6.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Bernard Mayes, released August 2, 2012, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Bernard Mayes
- Released
- August 2, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
- ISBN
- 9781481575188
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the What’s Wrong with the World audiobook?
What’s Wrong with the World runs 6.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.6 hours.
Is the What’s Wrong with the World audiobook free?
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Who narrates What’s Wrong with the World?
What’s Wrong with the World is narrated by Bernard Mayes.