Apple Podcast Rankings - Great Britain - Drama

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Great Britain

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Great Britain. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 04 May 2026

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05/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 149

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:39:30

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (15 shows)

2. Chilling Entertainment (4 shows)

3. QCODE (3 shows)

4. Bloody FM (3 shows)

5. NOISER (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (22 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Acast (15 shows)

4. Spreaker (7 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Archers	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	259	BBC	58
2	The Archers Omnibus	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	43	BBC	28
3	Sherlock Holmes Short Stories	NOISER	Fiction	113	Megaphone	83
4	Sherlock & Co.	Goalhanger	Fiction	163	Megaphone	78
5	Jane Austen Stories	NOISER	Fiction	38	Acast	89
6	Malevolent	Harlan Guthrie	Fiction	89	Acast	69
7	Limelight	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	298	BBC	38
8	The Lovecraft Investigations	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	44	BBC	52
9	The Whisperer In Darkness	Julian Simpson	Fiction	10	Captivate	68
10	Drama of the Week	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	2	BBC	38
11	Charles Dickens Ghost Stories	NOISER	Fiction	9	Acast	63
12	The Battersea Poltergeist	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	14	BBC	42
13	The White Vault	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	116	Megaphone	79
14	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	Julian Simpson	Fiction	11	Captivate	58
15	Babalu	Uneasy Tiger	Fiction	13	Acast	79
16	Petrified	Liam Geraghty / Peter Dunne	Fiction	41	Acast	69
17	REDACTED	Hush Studios	Fiction	80	Acast	74
18	Beatrice Hart and the Curse of the Golden Fleece	Beatrice Hart Adventures	Fiction	8	Acast	48
19	The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings	Bloody FM	Fiction	175	Simplecast	68
20	Tower 4	Bloody FM	Fiction	62	Simplecast	63
21	Knifepoint Horror Details temporarily unavailable	Soren Narnia	Fiction	126	Libsyn	43
22	Creepy	Be Afraid	Fiction	1274	Acast	69
23	We're Alive	Wayland Productions Inc	Fiction	241	Acast	84
24	Alice Isn't Dead	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	72	Megaphone	68
25	The Black Tapes	Pacific Northwest Stories	Fiction	51	Libsyn	48
26	Undertow: Familiar Haunts Details temporarily unavailable	Realm	Fiction	121	Megaphone	84
27	CreepsMcPasta Creepypasta Radio	Creeps McPasta	Fiction	1011	Spreaker	48
28	Six Minutes	GZM Shows	Fiction	393	ART19	63
29	Lakecastle	Sansrival	Fiction	6	Buzzsprout	58
30	WE'RE NOT MEANT TO KNOW	SpectreVision Radio	Fiction	56	Megaphone	43
31	Phoebe Reads a Mystery	Vox Media Podcast Network	Fiction	778	Megaphone	59
32	Mayfair Watchers Society	Bloody FM	Fiction	86	Simplecast	63
33	Horror Hill — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	378	Audioboom	47
34	Limetown	Two-Up	Fiction	22	Megaphone	69
35	Chilling Tales for Dark Nights — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	500	Audioboom	37
36	Sherlock Holmes -Rathbone & Bruce	EntertainmentRadioBD	Fiction	123	Spreaker	38
37	The Northern Bank Job	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	11	BBC	43
38	Home Front - Omnibus	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	56	BBC	28
39	The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel	GZM Shows	Fiction	35	ART19	48
40	Short Story	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	11	BBC	33
41	This Thing of Darkness	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	27	BBC	33
42	OMINOUS THRILL: Her Horrorween	Jeff Schmidt	Fiction	52	ART19	83
43	Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production	Alex Nursall & Emily Kellogg	Fiction	78	Megaphone	63
44	Borrasca	QCODE	Fiction	18	Megaphone	73
45	The Dark Is Rising	BBC World Service	Fiction	13	BBC	53
46	Underwood and Flinch: A Vampire Saga	Mike Bennett	Fiction	280	Spreaker	69
47	Nazis: The Road to Power	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	17	BBC	43
48	British Spy Stories	Gabby Lane is Britain's most dangerous MI6 field officer.	Fiction	177	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	George Orwell - 1984	Audiobooks On Line	Fiction	39	Spreaker	38
50	American Afterlife	Gamut Podcast Network	Fiction	19	ART19	69
51	Immerse Yourself in Stories Through Sound With Full Audiobook	hotaudiobook.com	Fiction	1989	Unknown	53
52	Blackout	QCODE & Endeavor Content	Fiction	20	Megaphone	79
53	Video Palace	Shudder	Fiction	14	ART19	73
54	Campfire Radio Theater	Haunted Air Audio	Fiction	52	Podbean	52
55	Children of the Stones	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	10	BBC	49
56	Higher Grounds	YellaBird Media	Fiction	12	Transistor	79
57	Listen with Other	Giles Booth	Fiction	32	Unknown	73
58	Maxine Miles	iHeartPodcasts	Fiction	20	Omny Studio	63
59	John Carpenter Presents Something Wicked	Read Ridley, Bloody FM	Fiction	18	Simplecast	52
60	What if it's True Podcast	Cameron Buckner	Fiction	719	Spreaker	43
61	Last Known Position	QCODE	Fiction	9	Megaphone	73
62	Close Your Eyes	Cryptic Radio	Fiction	31	Podbean	68
63	Fake Heiress	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	7	BBC	43
64	Bridgewater	iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild	Fiction	25	Omny Studio	58
65	Be. Scared	Be. Busta and Studio71	Fiction	454	Megaphone	69
66	The Cipher	BBC Sounds	Fiction	11	BBC	33
67	Not Quite Dead	Eira Major's Hanging Sloth	Fiction	74	Acast	74
68	Tracks	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	9	BBC	43
69	Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot (Audiobook Collection)	Agatha Christie	Fiction	17	RSS.com	52
70	Cloud 9 Anthology	Kobold Blue Productions	Fiction	7	Acast	84
71	The Great Detectives Present Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (Old Time Radio)	Adam Graham Radio Detective Podcast	Fiction	721	Spreaker	53
72	Mysteries at Midnight - Mystery Stories read in the soothing style of a bedtime story	Sleep Cove	Fiction	176	Megaphone	42
73	Fox Podcasts	Tony Holland-Martin	Fiction	124	Spotify for Podcasters	28
74	Fictional Men Written By Women	Dipsea	Fiction	40	Captivate	48
75	Passenger List	Passenger List and Radiotopia	Fiction	28	PRX	53
76	Dr. Creepen's Dungeon	Dr. Creepen	Fiction	378	Audioboom	68
77	Tumanbay	iHeartPodcasts	Fiction	45	Omny Studio	53
78	Wrong Station	The Wrong Station	Fiction	271	Megaphone	63
79	Scary Stories Told in the Dark — A Horror Fiction Anthology Series	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	466	Audioboom	52
80	Dark Tome	Fred Greenhalgh	Fiction	39	Megaphone	68
81	The Once And Future Nerd	Glass & Madera	Fiction	144	Blubrry	59
82	Classic Drama Audiobooks	The Podcast Network	Fiction	131	Spreaker	54
83	Camp Here & There	Blue Wolfe	Fiction	73	Spotify for Podcasters	59
84	Give Me Away	Gideon Media	Fiction	54	Megaphone	59
85	Re: Dracula	Regarding Audio Drama	Fiction	138	Megaphone	63
86	Haunted UK Fiction: Tales of the Supernatural, Paranormal, and Uncanny	Steven Holloway & Melissa West	Fiction	78	Acast	43
87	Drew Blood's Dark Tales — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	272	Audioboom	57
88	Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	1	BBC	32
89	Arc	BBC Sounds	Fiction	21	BBC	63
90	COLD TAPES	Free Turn	Fiction	85	Acast	54
91	SOMNARIUM.	Haunted House Studios	Fiction	25	Acast	74
92	Discworld 24 - The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett (Full Audiobook)	Terry Pratchett	Fiction	12	RSS.com	52
93	The Sheridan Tapes	Homestead on the Corner \| Realm	Fiction	174	Megaphone	63
94	Duskhaven Point	Melinda Janet	Fiction	12	Buzzsprout	79
95	Ultimi attimi	Giuliomaria Garbellotto	Fiction	97	Megaphone	53
96	36 Questions – The Podcast Musical	Two-Up	Fiction	5	Megaphone	48
97	Soft Voice	QCODE	Fiction	11	Megaphone	73
98	Residents of Proserpina Park - A Mythology Audio Drama	Angela Yeh	Fiction	74	RedCircle	48
99	The Holmwood Foundation	Georgia Cook & Fio Trethewey	Fiction	17	Acast	74
100	A Litter of Bones by JD Kirk - Full Cast Recording	Zertex Media Ltd	Fiction	9	Podbean	52

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Great Britain

The podcast landscape in Great Britain is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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