Roger May: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, Roger May narrates 53 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 745.9 hours in all; the median one runs 11.5 hours.

53titles

746listening hrs

11.5median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated: 53
Total listening time: 745.9 hrs
Median length: 11.5 hrs
Release years: 2008 to 2026
Longest: The Charles Dickens Non-Fiction Collection: Postcards from Italy, American Notes for General Circulation, The Uncommercial Traveller, Dickens As I Knew Him, My Father As I Recall Him, Selected Letters, Selected Journalism & Essays (86.2 hrs)
Shortest: Selected Poetry by Lewis Carroll (1.3 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators: 10

Shelf mix

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

Store shelf	Titles	Share
Classics (Literature)	9	17%
Europe	6	11%
World	6	11%
Fiction	5	9%
Historical (Fiction)	4	8%
Non-Fiction	4	8%
History & Culture	3	6%
Paranormal	3	6%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with Roger May on the same recordings.

Narrator	Shared titles
Clare Corbett	2
Stephen Critchlow	2
Lucy Scott	2
Hillary Maclean	2
Andrew Wincott	2
David Warner	2
Susan Lynch	1
Christopher Naylor	1
John Turner	1
Paul Eddington	1
Paul Panting	1
Jamie Parker	1

Audiobooks narrated by Roger May

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	This Sceptred Isle: Collection 1: 55BC - 1702: The Classic BBC Radio History	Christopher Lee	15.5 hrs
2	J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography	Humphrey Carpenter	11.5 hrs
3	Naked Diplomacy: Power and Statecraft in the Digital Age	Tom Fletcher	10.2 hrs
4	The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained	DK	16.6 hrs
5	Haunted Houses: Classic Stories of Doors That Should Never Be Opened	DK	15.6 hrs
6	The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna	Tim Parks	16.1 hrs
7	John Landis Presents The Library of Horror – Haunted Houses: Classic Tales of Doors That Should Never Be Opened	John Landis	15.6 hrs
8	J. Sheridan Le Fanu: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Gothic Horror Collection: Carmilla, Uncle Silas, Shalker the Painter & more	Sheridan Le Fanu	5.7 hrs
9	The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World	Paul Strathern	15 hrs
10	Selected Poetry by Lewis Carroll	Lewis Carroll	1.3 hrs
11	The Pleasures of Men	Kate Williams	11.3 hrs
12	The Undercover Scientist: Investigating the Mishaps of Everyday Life	Peter J. Bentley	9 hrs
13	The Empress of Ice Cream	Anthony Capella	12.9 hrs
14	Half of the Human Race	Anthony Quinn	17.5 hrs
15	The Games: A Global History of the Olympics	David Goldblatt	22.7 hrs
16	The Art of Captaincy: What Sport Teaches Us About Leadership	Mike Brearley	13.9 hrs
17	Serious Things	Gregory Norminton	9 hrs
18	New Maps of Hell	Kingsley Amis	5.5 hrs
19	A Sort Of Life	Graham Greene	7 hrs
20	Studying Dracula: The Complete Text and Revision Guide	Bram Stoker	21.8 hrs
21	The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome	Robin Lane Fox	28.5 hrs
22	Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After World War II	Adrian Tinniswood	13.6 hrs
23	Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House	Adrian Tinniswood	13.6 hrs
24	Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change	Robert Kelsey	7.9 hrs
25	Forget Strategy. Get Results.: Radical Management Attitudes That Will Deliver Outstanding Success	Michael Tobin	5.7 hrs
26	Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks	Simon Dingle	8.7 hrs
27	DS Manson: Three BBC Radio 4 crime thrillers	Bill Murphy	3.3 hrs
28	Childhood, Boyhood and Youth	Leo Tolstoy	15.7 hrs
29	The History of Britain: From neolithic times to the present day	Richard Dargie	11.7 hrs
30	The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare	Paul Strathern	15 hrs
31	The Man With Miraculous Hands: The Incredible Story of Himmler’s Physician Who Saved Thousands of Lives	Joseph Kessel	9.9 hrs
32	House of Cards: A BBC Radio Drama	Michael Dobbs	2.9 hrs
33	The Dream Cure: How recalling your dreams can heal your life	Theresa Cheung	8.1 hrs
34	The Eclogues and Georgics	Virgil	4.6 hrs
35	The Reindeer Hunters	Lars Mytting	16.3 hrs
36	Frankenstein (Educational Edition)	Francis Gilbert	11.1 hrs
37	The Night of the Scourge	Lars Mytting	19 hrs
38	Bangers and Mash: A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Series	Katie Hims	2.8 hrs
39	What To Do, Pernickety Boo?	Sally Gardner	3.2 hrs
40	The Village of Stepanchikovo	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	10.5 hrs
41	The Humiliated and Insulted	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	15.7 hrs
42	The Shooting Party	Anton Chekhov	9.3 hrs
43	Death of a Hero	Richard Aldington	15.2 hrs
44	Saving Elli	Doug Gold	9.5 hrs
45	Eugene Onegin	Alexander Pushkin	4.7 hrs
46	The Charles Dickens Non-Fiction Collection: Postcards from Italy, American Notes for General Circulation, The Uncommercial Traveller, Dickens As I Knew Him, My Father As I Recall Him, Selected Letters, Selected Journalism & Essays	George Dolby	86.2 hrs
47	The H. G. Wells Collection	H.G. Wells	45.3 hrs
48	The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery	Agatha Christie	8.6 hrs
49	Last Testament: In His Own Words	Peter Seewald	7.1 hrs
50	The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard	Nina Allan	18.9 hrs
51	The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944	Anthony Tucker-Jones	9.7 hrs
52	A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941–45	Robert Lyman	25.4 hrs
53	A Sound Mind: How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History)	Paul Morley	24.7 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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