ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
What should I read next? Ask Penguin is the podcast where your quirkiest, trickiest, and most urgent book questions get answered. Hosted by Rhianna Dhillon, we bring bestselling authors and Penguin insiders to explore some of your favourite books and discover new ones that you are yet to read.
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Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 23 days
Average audio length:
39 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
268 episodes
since July 15, 2015
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~27.70% of listeners are from United Kingdom.
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GB
27.70%
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US
23.30%
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AU
9.91%
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8.60%
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CA
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IN
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JP
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1.45%
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NL
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FR
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TR
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RU
0.77%
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HK
0.67%
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CH
0.58%
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NZ
0.53%
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LA
0.48%
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ZA
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BE
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IT
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Others
2.46%
* Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. real-time
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