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Frances Barber: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, Frances Barber narrates 26 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 201.5 hours in all; the median one runs 5.7 hours.

26titles
202listening hrs
5.7median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated
26
Total listening time
201.5 hrs
Median length
5.7 hrs
Release years
2004 to 2026
Longest
David Edgar: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: 17 Full-Cast Productions including The Shape of the Table, Pentecost & Maydays (25.8 hrs)
Shortest
Doctor Who: Snake Bite (1.2 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators
20

Shelf mix

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

Store shelfTitlesShare
Classics (Literature)935%
Historical (Fiction)415%
Science Fiction312%
Fiction312%
Theatre & Radio28%
Essays & Anthologies28%
Drama28%
Comedy, Satire & Parody28%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with Frances Barber on the same recordings.

Audiobooks narrated by Frances Barber

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

#TitleAuthorLength
1An Inspector Calls (Classic Radio Theatre)J.B. Priestley1.5 hrs
2The Odyssey: An epic full-cast journey through the adventures of Odysseus and the world of Greek MythologyHomer3.8 hrs
3The James Joyce BBC Radio Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & DublinersGordon Bowker13.2 hrs
4The Secret GriefDavid Eldridge1.5 hrs
5Paradise Lost: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisationJohn Milton2.5 hrs
6The Voyages of the Princess MatildaShane Spall11.8 hrs
7BBC Radio Shakespeare: A Collection of Three Roman PlaysWilliam Shakespeare8 hrs
8The Ultimate Iliad & Odyssey: Two Full-Cast Dramatisations: Rediscover the Epic Greek Myths Ahead of the Major FilmHomer5.7 hrs
9Season's GreetingsAlan Ayckbourn1.5 hrs
10Antony And Cleopatra: A BBC Radio Shakespeare productionWilliam Shakespeare2.9 hrs
11Ditched: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisationDoug Lucie1.5 hrs
12Daunt & Dervish: The Complete BBC Radio crime seriesGuy Meredith9.6 hrs
13Little Lifetimes: Series 1-6: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Where Women Share Their SecretsJenny Eclair7 hrs
14Posters of the Moulin Rouge: Eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas based on the characters of Toulouse-LautrecJohn Peacock6.7 hrs
15Doctor Who: Snake BiteScott Handcock1.2 hrs
16Doctor Who: Shroud Of SorrowTommy Donbavand5.7 hrs
17The Hare Lane Diaries: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy DramaLyndon Mallet2.8 hrs
18Irène Némirovsky: Four BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations: The Dogs and the Wolves, Jezebel, The Misunderstanding and Dolce from the Suite Française SeriesIrène Némirovsky4.7 hrs
19The Hauntening: The Complete Series 1-4: A BBC Radio 4 ComedyTom Neenan3 hrs
20Intrigue and Satire: Later Restoration Comedies: 11 BBC Radio Full Cast Productions including The Recruiting Officer and The Way of the World and moreJohn Vanburgh19.1 hrs
21David Edgar: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: 17 Full-Cast Productions including The Shape of the Table, Pentecost & MaydaysDavid Edgar25.8 hrs
22Jenny and Julie’s BBC Radio Dramas: On Baby Street, TwilightBaby.com and moreJulie Balloo18.7 hrs
23Colette: Gigi, Cheri and more: A BBC Radio Drama CollectionColette Avital8.6 hrs
24Sir Lenny Henry: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Four Full-Cast Plays & Lenny Henry’s Rogues GalleryLenny Henry5 hrs
25Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor Novels Volume 5: 11th Doctor NovelsPaul Finch21 hrs
26Nikolai Gogol: A BBC Radio Collection: Nine Full-Cast DramatisationsNikolai Gogol8.9 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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