Audiobooks narrated by Derek Jacobi

Reads Brother Cadfael, having played him — the same doubling as Suchet and Poirot. Worth knowing his Cadfael recordings run around three hours each where the unabridged recordings run seven or eight, so check the length before you buy on the strength of the name. His Iliad and Odyssey is the long-form classical reading people reach for, and he turns up in the Sherlock Holmes recordings too.

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3 series · 4 recording comparisons

Known on screen for I, Claudius, Cadfael, Gladiator · more celebrity narrators

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Series Derek Jacobi appears in

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Where Derek Jacobi is one of the choices

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Authors Derek Jacobi reads

Portraits — Arthur Conan Doyle: Photo: Walter Benington · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons; C.S. Lewis: Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain · cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.

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