Which Guards! Guards! recording should you buy?

The usual Discworld starting point, and the usual four-times length gap between its two editions.

Guards! Guards!Terry Pratchett · 2 recordings on Audible UK

Short answer

Jon Culshaw. This is the book most people are told to begin Discworld with, so it is a particularly bad one to accidentally buy abridged.

Every recording, compared

NarratorLengthTypeNotes
Jon Culshaw, with Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz and Ben Aaronovitch Our pick13 hrs 29 minsUnabridgedThe current recording. Culshaw reads the City Watch books.
Tony Robinson3 hrs 14 minsAbridgedUnder a quarter of the running time.

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