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 22 Aug 2026

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08/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 123

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:32:58

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (12 shows)

2. Bloody FM (4 shows)

3. NOISER (3 shows)

4. Chilling Entertainment (3 shows)

5. Julian Simpson (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (25 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Archers	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	224	BBC	58
2	Sherlock & Co.	Goalhanger	Fiction	157	Megaphone	78
3	Sherlock Holmes Short Stories	NOISER	Fiction	104	Megaphone	83
4	The Archers Omnibus	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	37	BBC	28
5	Arc	BBC Sounds	Fiction	21	BBC	63
6	Jane Austen Stories	NOISER	Fiction	33	Acast	89
7	Limelight	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	290	BBC	38
8	The Sleepy Bookshelf	Slumber Studios	Fiction	829	Simplecast	73
9	The Lovecraft Investigations	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	44	BBC	52
10	Drama of the Week	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	1	BBC	38
11	The White Vault	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	116	Megaphone	79
12	Six Minutes	GZM Shows	Fiction	386	ART19	63
13	The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings	Bloody FM	Fiction	164	Simplecast	68
14	The Battersea Poltergeist	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	38
15	We're Alive	Wayland Productions Inc	Fiction	241	Acast	84
16	Malevolent	Harlan Guthrie	Fiction	88	Acast	69
17	REDACTED	Hush Studios	Fiction	84	Acast	74
18	The Whisperer In Darkness	Julian Simpson	Fiction	10	Captivate	68
19	Tower 4	Bloody FM	Fiction	62	Simplecast	63
20	Phoebe Reads a Mystery	Vox Media Podcast Network	Fiction	778	Megaphone	59
21	Petrified	Liam Geraghty / Peter Dunne	Fiction	42	Acast	79
22	OMINOUS THRILL	Jeff Schmidt	Fiction	38	ART19	89
23	British Spy Stories	Gabby Lane is Britain's most dangerous MI6 field officer.	Fiction	172	Spotify for Podcasters	38
24	Mayfair Watchers Society	Bloody FM	Fiction	85	Simplecast	63
25	Knifepoint Horror Details temporarily unavailable	Soren Narnia	Fiction	126	Libsyn	43
26	Creepy	Be Afraid	Fiction	1242	Acast	69
27	American Afterlife	Gamut Podcast Network	Fiction	19	ART19	69
28	Close Your Eyes	Cryptic Radio	Fiction	31	Podbean	68
29	Alice Isn't Dead	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	71	Megaphone	68
30	Edge of the Forgotten	Pale Matter \| Realm	Fiction	17	Megaphone	73
31	George Orwell - 1984	Audiobooks On Line	Fiction	39	Spreaker	38
32	Babalu	Uneasy Tiger	Fiction	13	Acast	79
33	Scary Stories Told in the Dark — A Horror Fiction Anthology Series	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	460	Audioboom	52
34	Witchpunk: A Cyberpunk Story	Citeog Podcasts	Fiction	10	Captivate	53
35	The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel	GZM Shows	Fiction	31	ART19	68
36	Marvel’s Wastelanders: Wolverine	Marvel & Realm	Fiction	11	Megaphone	78
37	Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot (Audiobook Collection)	Agatha Christie	Fiction	17	RSS.com	52
38	The Black Tapes	Pacific Northwest Stories	Fiction	51	Libsyn	53
39	Blackout	QCODE & Endeavor Content	Fiction	20	Megaphone	79
40	Passenger List	Passenger List and Radiotopia	Fiction	27	PRX	59
41	Wrong Station	The Wrong Station	Fiction	262	Megaphone	63
42	Home Front - Omnibus	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	59	BBC	28
43	Be. Scared	Be. Busta and Studio71	Fiction	447	Megaphone	69
44	Everything Agatha Christie	mycatandme7	Fiction	138	Podbean	42
45	The Dark Is Rising	BBC World Service	Fiction	13	BBC	53
46	Marvel's Wastelanders: Doom	Marvel \| Realm	Fiction	11	Megaphone	68
47	Horror Hill — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	366	Audioboom	47
48	The Heresies Of Radulf Burntwine	Zachary Golden	Fiction	36	Megaphone	38
49	Limetown	Two-Up	Fiction	22	Megaphone	69
50	Beatrice Hart and the Curse of the Golden Fleece	Beatrice Hart Adventures	Fiction	8	Acast	48
51	Charles Dickens Ghost Stories	NOISER	Fiction	9	Acast	63
52	Short Story	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	11	BBC	33
53	Undertow: Familiar Haunts Details temporarily unavailable	Realm	Fiction	121	Megaphone	84
54	The Laugh Track	The Icebox Radio Theater	Fiction	14	Squarespace	42
55	Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production	Alex Nursall & Emily Kellogg	Fiction	75	Megaphone	63
56	Life Lines	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	18	BBC	33
57	CreepsMcPasta Creepypasta Radio	Creeps McPasta	Fiction	1011	Spreaker	48
58	The Burned Photo	QCODE	Fiction	18	Megaphone	84
59	The Bardic Hearth	Chase Noseworthy	Fiction	29	ART19	83
60	Dr. Creepen's Dungeon	Dr. Creepen	Fiction	369	Audioboom	68
61	Dark Woods	Endeavor Content	Fiction	10	Megaphone	53
62	Marvel's Wastelanders: Black Widow	Marvel \| Realm	Fiction	15	Megaphone	58
63	Campfire Radio Theater	Haunted Air Audio	Fiction	51	Podbean	52
64	Ravi \| پادکست فارسی راوی	arash kaviani	Fiction	65	Simplecast	69
65	Crystal Blue	Bloody FM	Fiction	11	Simplecast	69
66	This Thing of Darkness	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	27	BBC	33
67	The Grimoire Diaries	Stone Fable	Fiction	28	Acast	94
68	Primal	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	RedCircle	78
69	The Sheridan Tapes	Homestead on the Corner \| Realm	Fiction	174	Megaphone	63
70	Borrasca	QCODE	Fiction	18	Megaphone	73
71	36 Questions – The Podcast Musical	Two-Up	Fiction	5	Megaphone	48
72	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	Julian Simpson	Fiction	11	Captivate	58
73	1865	Airship / Audible	Fiction	62	ART19	79
74	We’re Alive: Scout’s Honor	Wayland Productions Inc	Fiction	13	Acast	79
75	Disney Conspiracy Theories	Amina	Fiction	1	Spotify for Podcasters	28
76	Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu - Pre-Launch	Julian Simpson	Fiction	3	Captivate	42
77	Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery	Audacious Machine Creative	Fiction	88	ART19	52
78	Lux Radio Theatre	EntertainmentRadioBD	Fiction	201	Spreaker	59
79	John Carpenter Presents Something Wicked	Read Ridley, Bloody FM	Fiction	18	Simplecast	52
80	Tea and Two Sugars	Tatty	Fiction	104	Spotify for Podcasters	28
81	Dramas	BBC World Service	Fiction	16	BBC	59
82	Shadows at the Door	Shadows at the Door Publishing \| Realm	Fiction	48	Megaphone	53
83	The Great Detectives Present Yours Truly Johnny Dollar (Old Time Radio)	Adam Graham Radio Detective Podcast	Fiction	715	Spreaker	53
84	Its Grim Up North	Reece Pickering & Alex Akers	Fiction	6	RSS.com	63
85	Audio Theatre UK	a source of Free Audio Books & Plays...	Fiction	11	Unknown	64
86	Hamlet	Make-Believe Association	Fiction	8	Libsyn	58
87	COLD TAPES	Free Turn	Fiction	85	Acast	54
88	BBC Writers	BBC Radio	Fiction	15	BBC	33
89	Remy’s Life...Interrupted	GZM Shows	Fiction	181	ART19	52
90	Sherlock Holmes -Rathbone & Bruce	EntertainmentRadioBD	Fiction	123	Spreaker	38
91	Pinoy Tagalog Love Stories S11	Pinoy Love Stories	Fiction	1	Unknown	38
92	The Horror of Dolores Roach	Gimlet	Fiction	16	Megaphone	73
93	Outliers - Stories from the edge of history	Historic Royal Palaces & Rusty Quill	Fiction	43	Libsyn	62
94	Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Audiobook	Leo Tolstoy	Fiction	363	Spreaker	38
95	Endgame	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	Megaphone	89
96	Chilling Tales for Dark Nights — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	500	Audioboom	37
97	Children of the Stones	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	10	BBC	49
98	Dreamboy	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	15	Megaphone	69
99	The Sunfall Train	REDSHIFT	Fiction	0	Unknown	39
100	DEADHOUSE	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	4	BBC	49

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.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in Great Britain.
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