How long does it take to listen to S-Town?

S-Town is seven chapters and about six and a half hours, released all at once in 2017 rather than weekly — one of the first major podcasts to use a binge model. It was downloaded 40 million times in its first month. The whole thing fits inside a single working day, which is unusual for investigative audio of its scale. It is shorter than most of the audiobooks on this list and shorter than four of the films.

The numbers

Total

6 hours 24 minutes

In hours

6.4 hours

Non-stop

0.3 days without sleeping

Covers

7 chapters

At a realistic pace

an episode a day

That works out as

about 7 days

What this assumes

Seven chapters at their published durations, totalling 6 hours 23 minutes 55 seconds.

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