The Handpan Podcast

Since the year 2000, a new musical instrument called the handpan has empowered a generation of people to experience creative freedom and to develop a passion. Why is the handpan different? Listen to the podcast to hear the transformation stories of people whose lives have intersected with the handpan to find out....

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Website RSS read 12 Sep 2026, 14:16 UTC

episodes over 2.9 years, from 19 Oct 2018 to 25 Sep 2021. Released monthly. Nothing new for 5.0 years.

Total listening time

17h 15m

across 28 timed episodes

Typical episode

36m 36s

mean 36m 57s

Usual gap

18 days

longest 7 months

Favourite release day

Friday

7 of 28 episodes

Longest weekly streak

3 weeks

25 days with a release

Feed size

41.7 KB

1.5 KB per episode

Audio published

1.3 GB

≈186 kbps average

Release calendar

Episodes published per day. Busiest day: 3 episodes on 2018-10-19.

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Episodes published per month
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
2021							1	1				2
2020	1			1				1			1	4
2019	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	2		2		14
2018									3	3	2	8

What time of day episodes land

Every episode placed on the hour it went out in, read on Sylvain Paslier's own clock rather than ours. Most often 20:00 UTC.

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Episodes published per hour of the day
Hour	Episodes
00:00–00:59	1
02:00–02:59	1
04:00–04:59	3
06:00–06:59	1
09:00–09:59	1
10:00–10:59	2
12:00–12:59	3
14:00–14:59	1
16:00–16:59	1
17:00–17:59	1
18:00–18:59	1
19:00–19:59	2
20:00–20:59	5
21:00–21:59	2
22:00–22:59	2
23:00–23:59	1

Episode length over time

Each dot is one episode; the line is a rolling median over 5 episodes. Episodes are 199% longer than when the show started.

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Median episode length per year
Year	Median length	Episodes
2021	38m 20s	2
2020	53m 16s	4
2019	40m 16s	14
2018	17m 50s	8

How long is an episode?

28 episodes binned into 10-minute lengths. Half run under 36m 36s.

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Episode count per length band
Length	Episodes
— – 10m 00s	1
10m 00s – 20m 00s	4
20m 00s – 30m 00s	6
30m 00s – 40m 00s	5
40m 00s – 50m 00s	6
50m 00s – 1h 00m	3
1h 00m – 1h 10m	2
1h 10m – 1h 20m	0
1h 20m – 1h 30m	1

Feed size over time

One point for each version of the XML we have seen. A feed usually climbs as episodes are added; a line that flattens or falls means the host is trimming older episodes out of it. Only one version so far — a feed does not carry its own past sizes, so the history starts the first time we downloaded this one and grows every time it changes.

Versions and downloads

Feed size at each recorded change
Seen	Size	Fingerprint	Download
12 Sep 2026, 14:16 UTC	41.7 KB	`d934b9aa70c8`	XML Brotli gzip zstd

Where the audio comes from

Every episode is served straight from one domain. Read from the enclosure URLs — feedwrapped never requests the audio, because that would count as a download the publisher did not get. via follows the CNAME chain; network is the reverse DNS name, which describes the machines our lookup reached rather than where the show is made; AS is the autonomous system the routing table puts those machines in, asked of Team Cymru the way mtr -z asks. No addresses are shown.