Derek Jacobi: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, Derek Jacobi narrates 63 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 527.5 hours in all; the median one runs 5.3 hours.

63titles

528listening hrs

5.3median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated: 63
Total listening time: 527.5 hrs
Median length: 5.3 hrs
Release years: 2001 to 2026
Longest: Shakespeare: The Complete Works (100.3 hrs)
Shortest: Leaf by Niggle (0.8 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators: 27

Shelf mix

Where Derek Jacobi's audiobooks sit on the store's shelves. A title can sit on more than one.

Store shelf	Titles	Share
Classics (Literature)	13	21%
Short Stories	9	14%
Epic Fantasy	6	10%
Theatre & Radio	6	10%
Literary Fiction	6	10%
Action & Adventure (Fiction)	5	8%
Poetry	5	8%
Non-fiction (Kids)	4	6%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with Derek Jacobi on the same recordings.

Narrator	Shared titles
Ian McKellen	5
Richard E. Grant	4
Prunella Scales	4
Michael York	2
Diana Rigg	2
Alex Jennings	2
Stephen Mangan	2
Penelope Wilton	2
Mark Gatiss	2
Julian Rhind-Tutt	2
Samantha Bond	2
Adjoa Andoh	2

Audiobooks narrated by Derek Jacobi

Every title, with its store running time. Ordered by popularity on the store (rating counts, used only for ordering and never shown).

#	Title	Author	Length
1	The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Audio Collection	C.S. Lewis	33.8 hrs
2	The Testaments (TV Tie-in)	Margaret Atwood	13.3 hrs
3	Shakespeare: The Complete Works	William Shakespeare	100.3 hrs
4	Voyage of the Dawn Treader	C.S. Lewis	5.8 hrs
5	The Testaments	Margaret Atwood	13.3 hrs
6	Shakespeare: The Comedies: Featuring All 13 of William Shakespeare’s Comedic Plays	William Shakespeare	37.6 hrs
7	The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel	Anthony Horowitz	9 hrs
8	Roverandom	J.R.R. Tolkien	2.6 hrs
9	Kensuke’s Kingdom	Michael Morpurgo	3.3 hrs
10	George's Marvelous Medicine	Roald Dahl	1.6 hrs
11	The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen	Hendrik Groen	12 hrs
12	Letters from Father Christmas	J.R.R. Tolkien	2.1 hrs
13	The Adventures of Tom Bombadil	J.R.R. Tolkien	1.4 hrs
14	Norse Mythology: A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation	Neil Gaiman	1.5 hrs
15	I, Claudius	Robert Graves	5.8 hrs
16	Shakespeare: The Histories: Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, Henry V, Henry VI Part I, Henry VI Part II, Henry VI Part III, Henry VIII, King John, Richard II, Richard III	William Shakespeare	27 hrs
17	Tales from the Perilous Realm	J.R.R. Tolkien	7.7 hrs
18	Tomorrow Will Be A Good Day: My Autobiography - The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller	Captain Tom Moore	12.1 hrs
19	Henry V	William Shakespeare	2.2 hrs
20	Doctor Who: Tales of Terror	Craig Donaghy	7.5 hrs
21	The Canterbury Tales: Penguin Classics	Geoffrey Chaucer	16.8 hrs
22	The Murder at World's End	Ross Montgomery	10 hrs
23	The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old	Hendrik Groen	11.9 hrs
24	Trickery	Roald Dahl	6.8 hrs
25	The M. R. James BBC Radio Collection: Dramatisations and readings of his classic ghost stories	M.R. James	5.6 hrs
26	The Murder at World’s End: The gripping new cosy crime mystery and BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick from the bestselling author	Ross Montgomery	10 hrs
27	Leaf by Niggle	J.R.R. Tolkien	0.8 hrs
28	Farmer Giles of Ham	J.R.R. Tolkien	1.8 hrs
29	A Stroke of the Pen: Rediscovered stories from the UK’s bestselling science fiction and fantasy author	Terry Pratchett	4.8 hrs
30	Parson's Pleasure (A Roald Dahl Short Story)	Roald Dahl	1.1 hrs
31	Farm Boy	Michael Morpurgo	1.1 hrs
32	John Betjeman A First Class Collection	John Betjeman	2.4 hrs
33	The History of Theatre	David Timson	5.2 hrs
34	The History of English Poetry	Peter Whitfield	8.1 hrs
35	Nunc Dimittis (A Roald Dahl Short Story)	Roald Dahl	1 hrs
36	Bitch (A Roald Dahl Short Story)	Roald Dahl	1.2 hrs
37	Lust	Roald Dahl	10.3 hrs
38	As Luck Would Have It	Derek Jacobi	9.8 hrs
39	Timon of Athens	William Shakespeare	2.1 hrs
40	Captain Tom's Life Lessons	Captain Tom Moore	2.6 hrs
41	Pereira Maintains: A Testimony	Antonio Tabucchi	5.6 hrs
42	The Ultimate Iliad & Odyssey: Two Full-Cast Dramatisations: Rediscover the Epic Greek Myths Ahead of the Major Film	Homer	5.7 hrs
43	Spine Chillers	M.R. James	1.1 hrs
44	Doctor Who: The Mind Robber	Peter Ling	5.4 hrs
45	The Gospel of Matthew: The New Testament, Revised English Edition	Various	1.6 hrs
46	John Milton	John Milton	1.3 hrs
47	The History of English Literature	Perry Keenlyside	5.3 hrs
48	Essential John Milton	John Milton	9.8 hrs
49	The Visitor (A Roald Dahl Short Story)	Roald Dahl	1.9 hrs
50	Georgy Porgy (A Roald Dahl Short Story)	Roald Dahl	1.1 hrs
51	Deception: Soon to be a major Netflix film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, Sir Ben Kingsley and more!	Roald Dahl	8.4 hrs
52	Smith of Wootton Major	J.R.R. Tolkien	1.1 hrs
53	False Dawn	Edith Wharton	2.1 hrs
54	The Brave Tin Soldier & Other Fairy Tales	Hans Christian Andersen	1 hrs
55	Derek Jacobi In His Own Words	Derek Jacobi	1.2 hrs
56	Henry IV, Pt.2	William Shakespeare	2.8 hrs
57	The Katherine Mansfield BBC Radio Collection: Dramatisations and readings of selected stories	Katherine Mansfield	9.7 hrs
58	Tales from the Arabian Nights: A BBC Radio 4 Drama	Colin Haydn Evans	3.9 hrs
59	Doctor Who: The Alt Reality Collection: 1st, 2nd, 4th & 12th Doctor Novelisations	Paul Cornell	16.7 hrs
60	Humour and Madness: Early Restoration Comedies: Nine BBC Radio Full Cast Productions including The Rover, The Country Wife and more	Edward Ravenscroft	16.5 hrs
61	The Glass Bead Game: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation	Herman Hesse	2.1 hrs
62	Lost Horizon & Goodbye Mr Chips: Two BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations	James Hilton	4.5 hrs
63	The Chronicles of Narnia Devotional: Journey into the Wardrobe with Meditations on the Beloved C. S. Lewis Classic (50 Daily Devotions)	C.S. Lewis	5.5 hrs

Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

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