Simon Callow: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, Simon Callow narrates 55 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 274.1 hours in all; the median one runs 2.9 hours.

55titles

274listening hrs

2.9median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated: 55
Total listening time: 274.1 hrs
Median length: 2.9 hrs
Release years: 2006 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: Claude on Holiday (0.3 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators: 31

Shelf mix

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

Store shelf	Titles	Share
Essays & Anthologies	16	29%
Animals & Nature (Kids)	9	16%
Humor	9	16%
Arts & Entertainment	8	15%
Suspense	5	9%
Classics (Literature)	4	7%
Literary Fiction	4	7%
Biography & Memoir	4	7%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with Simon Callow on the same recordings.

Narrator	Shared titles
Louise Brealey	15
Toby Jones	15
Stephen Fry	14
Ferdinand Kingsley	13
Crystal Clarke	11
Mark Strong	9
Shaun Usher	9
Juliet Stevenson	9
Chris Nayak	8
Shazia Nicholls	8
Greg Lockett	7
Sanjeev Bhaskar	6

Audiobooks narrated by Simon Callow

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 Aeneid	Robert Fagles	12.5 hrs
2	Tales of the Peculiar	Ransom Riggs	4.5 hrs
3	Gay Britannia: Celebrating Pride in the UK	Various	5.5 hrs
4	Hordes of the Things	Andrew Marshall	1.9 hrs
5	A Portrait in Letters	Charles Dickens	4.1 hrs
6	Claude in the City	Alex T. Smith	0.3 hrs
7	Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World	Simon Callow	11.1 hrs
8	The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere: The Complete Series 1 and 2: The BBC Radio 4 Comedy	Sue Limb	4.7 hrs
9	Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece	William E. Wallace	8.7 hrs
10	Claude in the Country	Alex T. Smith	0.3 hrs
11	Claude on the Slopes	Alex T. Smith	0.3 hrs
12	Santa Claude	Alex T. Smith	0.4 hrs
13	Tales of London: Hawksmoor and others: Four BBC Radio 4 Dramas	Peter Ackroyd	6.3 hrs
14	Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig	Russell Potter	5.8 hrs
15	Jacques and His Master: A Play	Milan Kundera	1.9 hrs
16	Claude in the Spotlight	Alex T. Smith	0.3 hrs
17	Claude at the Circus	Alex T. Smith	0.3 hrs
18	Claude: Lights! Camera! Action!	Alex T. Smith	0.3 hrs
19	Claude on Holiday	Alex T. Smith	0.3 hrs
20	Claude Going for Gold!	Alex T. Smith	0.3 hrs
21	Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will	Simon Callow	6.6 hrs
22	Being Wagner: The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived	Simon Callow	6.6 hrs
23	The Unopened Casebook Of Sherlock Holmes	John Taylor	2.8 hrs
24	HiBrow: Highgate Cemetery Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary	Gary Kemp	1.2 hrs
25	Letters of Note: Love	Shaun Usher	2.9 hrs
26	Letters of Note: War	Shaun Usher	2.8 hrs
27	Letters of Note: Music	Shaun Usher	2.5 hrs
28	Letters of Note: Cats	Shaun Usher	2.9 hrs
29	Letters of Note: Fathers	Shaun Usher	3.5 hrs
30	Letters of Note: Space	Shaun Usher	2.8 hrs
31	Letters of Note: Sex	Shaun Usher	3.6 hrs
32	Letters of Note: New York City	Shaun Usher	2.7 hrs
33	Letters of Note: Dogs	Shaun Usher	2.8 hrs
34	Letters of Note: Mothers	Shaun Usher	3.7 hrs
35	Letters of Note: Art	Tba	2.7 hrs
36	Daniel, at sea	Philip Dundas	7.3 hrs
37	Letters of Note: Outer Space	Shaun Usher	2.8 hrs
38	Letters of Note: Dogs	Tba	2.8 hrs
39	Letters of Note: New York City	Tba	2.6 hrs
40	Letters of Note: Grief	Shaun Usher	2.8 hrs
41	The Eyes of Max Carrados: A Max Carrados Mystery: Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama	Mr Punch	0.7 hrs
42	The Secret of Headlam Height: A Max Carrados Mystery: Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama	Mr Punch	0.7 hrs
43	The Ingenious Mind of Rigby Lacksome: A Max Carrados Mystery: Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama	Mr Punch	0.7 hrs
44	The Mysteries of Max Carrados Box Set: Three Max Carrados Mysteries: Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama	Mr Punch	2.2 hrs
45	Sentimental Journeys: Stories of personal travel: A BBC Radio 4 comedy	Arthur Smith	7 hrs
46	Thriller Playhouse Box Set: EIGHT thrilling episodes from the popular BBC Drama series	Mr Punch	5.9 hrs
47	The Alexander Pushkin BBC Radio Collection: Including Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov & The Queen of Spades	Alexander Pushkin	11.8 hrs
48	Goethe: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Six Full-Cast Dramatisations including Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther and more	Johann Wolfgang Von Goethes	17.1 hrs
49	The Flynn Guarneri	Katherine Bucknell	11.8 hrs
50	David Edgar: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: 17 Full-Cast Productions including The Shape of the Table, Pentecost & Maydays	David Edgar	25.8 hrs
51	Getting Away With Murder: My unexpected life on page, stage and screen	Lynda La Plante	14.9 hrs
52	Amadeus, Equus & more: Four Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions	Peter Shaffer	6.8 hrs
53	Fay Weldon: A BBC Radio Collection: 11 Full-Cast Dramatisations including - The Life and Loves of a She Devil & more	Fay Weldon	15.9 hrs
54	The Night of the Hunter	Simon Callow	3.4 hrs
55	Down There on a Visit	Christopher Isherwood	11.2 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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