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John Rowe: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, John Rowe narrates 26 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 153.2 hours in all; the median one runs 4.9 hours.

26titles
153listening hrs
4.9median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated
26
Total listening time
153.2 hrs
Median length
4.9 hrs
Release years
2002 to 2026
Longest
Sir Walter Scott: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Five Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations including Waverley and Rob Roy (17 hrs)
Shortest
Tamburlaine Shadow Of God (BBC Radio 3 Drama On 3) (0.4 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators
23

Shelf mix

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

Store shelfTitlesShare
Classics (Literature)727%
Fiction415%
Historical (Fiction)415%
Theatre & Radio415%
Arts & Entertainment312%
Police & Detective28%
Science Fiction28%
Suspense28%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with John Rowe on the same recordings.

NarratorShared titles
Sam Dale3
Trevor Peacock2
Nigel Anthony2
Douglas Blackwell2
Alison Pettitt2
Deborah Findlay2
Helen Longworth2
Gugu Mbatha-Raw2
Marcia Warren2
Peter Marinker2
Anna Massey2
Peter Jeffrey2

Audiobooks narrated by John Rowe

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

#TitleAuthorLength
1The Canterbury Tales IIGeoffrey Chaucer3.5 hrs
2Inspector Purbright: Five BBC Radio 4 full-cast crime dramatisations from The Flaxborough ChroniclesColin Watson11.2 hrs
3On Mardle Fen: Series 1-6: The Complete BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramasNick Warburton16.1 hrs
4Peter Lorre vs. Peter Lorre: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisationMichael Butt0.7 hrs
5Tamburlaine Shadow Of God (BBC Radio 3 Drama On 3)John Fletcher0.4 hrs
6Young Victoria: A BBC Radio 4 dramaJuliet Ace2.5 hrs
7Philip and Sydney: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisationAlan Pollock0.7 hrs
82025: A Full-Cast BBC Sci-Fi ThrillerMike Walker1.9 hrs
924 Kildare Road: A BBC Radio mysteryKatie Hims2.3 hrs
10Fortunes of War: A BBC Radio 4 Full cast dramatisation of the complete Balkan TrilogyOlivia Manning5.6 hrs
11The Empire Trilogy: Troubles, The Siege of Krishnapur, The Singapore Grip: 3 BBC Radio 4 productionsJG Farrell7.2 hrs
12Thomas Middleton: The Changeling, Women Beware Women & More: 6 BBC Radio 4 full-cast productionsThomas Middleton11 hrs
13The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Black Hearts in Battersea & The Story of Is: Three BBC Radio Children’s Classic Full-Cast DramatisationsJoan Aiken4.9 hrs
14Nick Payne: Constellations, Elegy & More: Five BBC Radio Full-Cast ProductionsNick Payne3.5 hrs
15Sir Walter Scott: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Five Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations including Waverley and Rob RoyWalter Scott17 hrs
16Nathaniel Hawthorne: A BBC Radio Collection: Four Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations including The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne4.8 hrs
17To Serve Them All My Days: A BBC Radio DramatisationRF Delderfield3.7 hrs
18Daughters and Sons: A Full-Cast BBC Radio DramatisationIvy Compton-Burnett5.5 hrs
19The Prince and The Mandrake: Two Full Cast BBC Radio DramatisationsNiccoli Machiavelli2.4 hrs
20Thrush Green: A Full-Cast BBC Radio DramatisationMiss Read5.6 hrs
21E.R. Braithwaite: A BBC Radio Collection: Three Full-Cast Dramatisations including To Sir, With LoveE.R. Braithwaite4 hrs
22R.D Wingfield: Post-Mortem Shock and other thrillers: 14 Full-Cast BBC Radio DramasR.D Wingfield11.6 hrs
23Chimera & other thrillers: Eight Full-Cast BBC Radio DramasStephen Gallagher8.9 hrs
24Journey’s End, The White Carnation & more: Six Full-Cast BBC Radio DramatisationsR.C. Sherriff8.2 hrs
25The Churchill Years: A Full-Cast BBC Radio DramaDavid Wheeler4.4 hrs
26The Image of God: A BBC Radio Adaptation of the Medieval Mystery PlaysDavid Buck5.4 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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