It takes the average reader 8 hours and 36 minutes to read Desert Island Discs: 70 Years of Castaways by Sean Magee
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
‘For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat – to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport and the arts, it presents a cross-sectional snapshot of the times in which we live. As the decades have passed, the programme has kept pace; never frozen in time yet always, somehow, comfortingly the same.’ Kirsty Young BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs celebrates its seventieth birthday in 2012. Since the programme’s deviser Roy Plomley interviewed comedian Vic Oliver in January 1942, nearly 3,000...
Desert Island Discs: 70 Years of Castaways by Sean Magee is 512 pages long, and a total of 129,024 words.
This makes it 173% the length of the average book. It also has 158% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 45 minutes to read Desert Island Discs: 70 Years of Castaways aloud.
Desert Island Discs: 70 Years of Castaways is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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