Simon Russell Beale: Audiobooks Narrated

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, Simon Russell Beale narrates 48 unabridged English-language audiobooks in our catalog, 344.1 hours in all; the median one runs 6.9 hours.

48titles

344listening hrs

6.9median hrs

The narrator in numbers

Titles narrated: 48
Total listening time: 344.1 hrs
Median length: 6.9 hrs
Release years: 2003 to 2026
Longest: The Romanovs: 1613-1918 (28.8 hrs)
Shortest: Don't Cook Cinderella (0.9 hrs)
Recordings with four or more narrators: 16

Shelf mix

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

Store shelf	Titles	Share
Mystery & Fantasy	10	21%
Historical (Fiction)	9	19%
Classics (Literature)	8	17%
Espionage	7	15%
Westerns & War	6	13%
Literary Fiction	5	10%
Humor	5	10%
Legal & Political	4	8%

Narrates alongside

Narrators credited with Simon Russell Beale on the same recordings.

Narrator	Shared titles
Allie Esiri	3
Emma Fielding	3
Alex Jennings	2
Brenda Blethyn	2
Damian Lewis	2
Ben Allen	2
Robert Harris	2
Jade Anouka	2
Ian Mckellen	2
Paapa Essiedu	2
Anna Chancellor	2
Ian Mcdiarmid	2

Audiobooks narrated by Simon Russell Beale

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 Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization	John Le Carré	19 hrs
2	The Romanovs: 1613-1918	Simon Sebag Montefiore	28.8 hrs
3	Midnight for Charlie Bone	Jenny Nimmo	7.3 hrs
4	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Robert Forest	3 hrs
5	Charlie Bone and the Invisible Boy	Jenny Nimmo	7.3 hrs
6	Charlie Bone and the Time Twister	Jenny Nimmo	6.7 hrs
7	Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year	Various	13.4 hrs
8	Regeneration: The first novel in the Booker Prize-winning World War One trilogy	Pat Barker	8.9 hrs
9	Charlie Bone and the Hidden King	Jenny Nimmo	8 hrs
10	The Looking Glass War	John Le Carré	1.9 hrs
11	The Georgette Heyer BBC Radio Drama Collection: Four full-cast dramatisations	Georgette Heyer	6.3 hrs
12	Charlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors	Jenny Nimmo	7.2 hrs
13	The Oscar Wilde BBC Radio Drama Collection: Five full-cast productions	Oscar Wilde	12 hrs
14	Karla's Choice: 'Reads like a lost le Carré' Richard Osman	John Le Carré	10.7 hrs
15	Smiley's People	John Le Carré	2.8 hrs
16	Measure for Measure	William Shakespeare	2.5 hrs
17	Paradise Lost: A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation	John Milton	2.5 hrs
18	The Eye in the Door: The second novel in the Booker Prize-winning World War One trilogy	Pat Barker	8.2 hrs
19	The Ghost Road: The third novel in the Booker Prize-winning World War One trilogy	Pat Barker	6.9 hrs
20	Agrippa: The thrilling new novel set in Ancient Rome from the bestselling author of Conclave	Robert Harris	9.9 hrs
21	The Secret Pilgrim	John Le Carré	2.8 hrs
22	The Great Poets: Lord Byron	Lord Byron	1.2 hrs
23	Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year: Daily wisdom from the life and works of the Bard	Allie Esiri	13.1 hrs
24	Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon	Sally Gardner	1.6 hrs
25	Karla's Choice: A John le Carré Novel	Nick Harkaway	10.7 hrs
26	Agrippa	Robert Harris	9.8 hrs
27	Dorothy L. Sayers: Lord Peter Wimsey, Montague Egg & more: A BBC Radio Classic Crime Collection	Dorothy L. Sayers	6.3 hrs
28	The Complete Barchester Chronicles: The Complete	Anthony Trollope	18.8 hrs
29	Stories From Shakespeare, Vol. 3	David Timson	3.9 hrs
30	Don't Cook Cinderella	Francesca Simon	0.9 hrs
31	Atticus the Storyteller: 100 Stories from Greece	Lucy Coats	2 hrs
32	Three Pickled Herrings: The Detective Agency's Second Case	Sally Gardner	2.4 hrs
33	The Vanishing of Billy Buckle: The Detective Agency's Third Case	Sally Gardner	3.1 hrs
34	The Matchbox Mysteries: The Detective Agency's Fourth Case	Sally Gardner	3.5 hrs
35	The Archers: The Death of Grace Archer: BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation	The Archers	3 hrs
36	A Poem for Every Day of the Year: A beautiful poetry collection for the whole family to share	Allie Esiri	11.1 hrs
37	Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Sea Dragon	Sally Gardner	1.8 hrs
38	All's Well That Ends Well: A BBC Radio Shakespeare production	William Shakespeare	2.2 hrs
39	Written in History: Letters That Changed the World	Simon Sebag Montefiore	7.5 hrs
40	Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Golden Seahorse	Sally Gardner	1.8 hrs
41	Regeneration	Pat Barker	8.9 hrs
42	Unmade Movies: Harold Pinter's Victory: A BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the unproduced screenplay	Harold Pinter	1.5 hrs
43	The Leo Tolstoy BBC Radio Drama Collection: Full-cast dramatisations of War and Peace, Anna Karenina & more	Leo Tolstoy	18.6 hrs
44	Henry Fielding: A BBC Radio Drama Collection: Full-cast dramatisations of Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews, Jonathan Wild & The Female Husband	Henry Fielding	7.5 hrs
45	Molière: Don Juan, The Miser and more: Six BBC Radio Full-Cast Productions	Molière	8.6 hrs
46	Pernickety Boo	Sally Gardner	2.9 hrs
47	The Ghost Road: Booker Prize Winner	Pat Barker	6.9 hrs
48	The Eye in the Door	Pat Barker	8.2 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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