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 29 Apr 2026

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04/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:37:22

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (16 shows)

2. Chilling Entertainment (4 shows)

3. Bloody FM (4 shows)

4. GZM Shows (3 shows)

5. Voyage Media (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (21 shows)

2. BBC (19 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Spreaker (8 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Archers	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	239	BBC	58
2	Sherlock & Co.	Goalhanger	Fiction	160	Megaphone	78
3	The Archers Omnibus	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	39	BBC	28
4	Sherlock Holmes Short Stories	NOISER	Fiction	109	Megaphone	83
5	Jane Austen Stories	NOISER	Fiction	35	Acast	89
6	The Lovecraft Investigations	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	44	BBC	52
7	The Whisperer In Darkness	Julian Simpson	Fiction	10	Captivate	68
8	The Battersea Poltergeist	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	14	BBC	42
9	Drama of the Week	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	2	BBC	38
10	Malevolent	Harlan Guthrie	Fiction	88	Acast	69
11	Limelight	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	293	BBC	38
12	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	Julian Simpson	Fiction	11	Captivate	58
13	Tower 4	Bloody FM	Fiction	62	Simplecast	63
14	We're Alive	Wayland Productions Inc	Fiction	241	Acast	84
15	Alice Isn't Dead	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	71	Megaphone	68
16	Charles Dickens Ghost Stories	NOISER	Fiction	9	Acast	63
17	REDACTED	Hush Studios	Fiction	78	Acast	74
18	Creepy	Be Afraid	Fiction	1250	Acast	69
19	The White Vault	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	116	Megaphone	79
20	The Dark Is Rising	BBC World Service	Fiction	13	BBC	53
21	The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings	Bloody FM	Fiction	169	Simplecast	68
22	Knifepoint Horror Details temporarily unavailable	Soren Narnia	Fiction	126	Libsyn	43
23	Petrified	Liam Geraghty / Peter Dunne	Fiction	42	Acast	79
24	Phoebe Reads a Mystery	Vox Media Podcast Network	Fiction	778	Megaphone	59
25	Babalu	Uneasy Tiger	Fiction	13	Acast	79
26	Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production	Alex Nursall & Emily Kellogg	Fiction	75	Megaphone	63
27	Six Minutes	GZM Shows	Fiction	389	ART19	63
28	Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot (Audiobook Collection)	Agatha Christie	Fiction	17	RSS.com	52
29	CreepsMcPasta Creepypasta Radio	Creeps McPasta	Fiction	1011	Spreaker	48
30	Borrasca	QCODE	Fiction	18	Megaphone	73
31	Fake Heiress	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	7	BBC	43
32	What if it's True Podcast	Cameron Buckner	Fiction	718	Spreaker	43
33	Undertow: Familiar Haunts Details temporarily unavailable	Realm	Fiction	121	Megaphone	84
34	Close Your Eyes	Cryptic Radio	Fiction	31	Podbean	68
35	Short Story	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	11	BBC	33
36	Horror Hill — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	369	Audioboom	47
37	Beatrice Hart and the Curse of the Golden Fleece	Beatrice Hart Adventures	Fiction	8	Acast	48
38	WE'RE NOT MEANT TO KNOW	SpectreVision Radio	Fiction	55	Megaphone	43
39	The Sheridan Tapes	Homestead on the Corner \| Realm	Fiction	174	Megaphone	63
40	Chilling Tales for Dark Nights — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	500	Audioboom	37
41	The Northern Bank Job	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	11	BBC	43
42	OMINOUS THRILL: Her Horrorween	Jeff Schmidt	Fiction	42	ART19	83
43	The Lion and the Adder	Monstrous Productions	Fiction	5	Acast	63
44	Paralyzed	Bloody FM	Fiction	117	Simplecast	58
45	American Afterlife	Gamut Podcast Network	Fiction	19	ART19	69
46	British Spy Stories	Gabby Lane is Britain's most dangerous MI6 field officer.	Fiction	174	Spotify for Podcasters	38
47	Campfire Radio Theater	Haunted Air Audio	Fiction	51	Podbean	52
48	The Black Tapes	Pacific Northwest Stories	Fiction	51	Libsyn	48
49	This Thing of Darkness	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	27	BBC	33
50	Its Grim Up North	Reece Pickering & Alex Akers	Fiction	6	Spotify for Podcasters	33
51	Lakecastle	Sansrival	Fiction	6	Buzzsprout	58
52	Higher Grounds	YellaBird Media	Fiction	12	Transistor	79
53	Imagination Amplified	GZM Shows	Fiction	86	ART19	73
54	Oaths & Empires	Oaths & Empires	Fiction	14	Audioboom	62
55	Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	1	BBC	32
56	Wrong Station	The Wrong Station	Fiction	264	Megaphone	63
57	Underwood and Flinch: A Vampire Saga	Mike Bennett	Fiction	278	Spreaker	69
58	Mayfair Watchers Society	Bloody FM	Fiction	85	Simplecast	63
59	Video Palace	Shudder	Fiction	14	ART19	73
60	Tumanbay	iHeartPodcasts	Fiction	45	Omny Studio	53
61	Blackout	QCODE & Endeavor Content	Fiction	20	Megaphone	79
62	Tracks	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	9	BBC	43
63	Give Me Away	Gideon Media	Fiction	54	Megaphone	59
64	Home Front - Omnibus	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	56	BBC	28
65	Limetown	Two-Up	Fiction	22	Megaphone	69
66	Tea and Two Sugars	Tatty	Fiction	106	Spotify for Podcasters	28
67	Immerse Yourself in Stories Through Sound With Full Audiobook	hotaudiobook.com	Fiction	1989	Unknown	53
68	Passenger List	Passenger List and Radiotopia	Fiction	28	PRX	53
69	The Sink: A Sleep Aid	BBC Sounds	Fiction	7	BBC	43
70	Strange Matter: The Witch Who Came in From the Cold	Realm	Fiction	117	Megaphone	89
71	Elias The Caretaker	Voyage Media	Fiction	11	RedCircle	78
72	Thirteen Details temporarily unavailable	Imaginary Comma	Fiction	143	RedCircle	63
73	Mysteries at Midnight - Mystery Stories read in the soothing style of a bedtime story	Sleep Cove	Fiction	174	Megaphone	42
74	SOMNARIUM.	Haunted House Studios	Fiction	24	Acast	94
75	Shadows at the Door	Shadows at the Door Publishing \| Realm	Fiction	48	Megaphone	53
76	Primal	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	RedCircle	78
77	The Hitler File	Voyage Media	Fiction	8	Spreaker	74
78	Mabinogi: Lost Legends and Dark Magic	BBC Radio Wales	Fiction	16	BBC	38
79	Listen with Other	Giles Booth	Fiction	32	Unknown	73
80	The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel	GZM Shows	Fiction	31	ART19	68
81	Someone Just Like You: Horror Stories	Jeremy Ellett	Fiction	29	Megaphone	68
82	Nazis: The Road to Power	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	17	BBC	43
83	Scary Stories Told in the Dark — A Horror Fiction Anthology Series	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	462	Audioboom	52
84	John Carpenter Presents Something Wicked	Read Ridley, Bloody FM	Fiction	18	Simplecast	52
85	A Christmas Carol: Full-Cast Radio Show	A Christmas Carol	Fiction	7	Unknown	38
86	Madam Ram	QCODE	Fiction	21	Megaphone	79
87	Classic Drama Audiobooks	The Podcast Network	Fiction	91	Spreaker	54
88	Tales to Terrify	Drew Sebesteny	Fiction	785	Acast	64
89	Be. Scared	Be. Busta and Studio71	Fiction	451	Megaphone	69
90	Camlann - An Audio Drama	Tin Can Audio	Fiction	15	Libsyn	58
91	Sherlock Holmes -Rathbone & Bruce	EntertainmentRadioBD	Fiction	123	Spreaker	38
92	Life Lines	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	18	BBC	33
93	Lusus	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	9	BBC	33
94	The Milkman of St. Gaff's	Christopher Scott McClure	Fiction	54	Acast	38
95	Drew Blood's Dark Tales — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	266	Audioboom	57
96	Soft Voice	QCODE	Fiction	11	Megaphone	73
97	The Saints	The Merry Beggars	Fiction	725	Omny Studio	84
98	Radyo Tiyatrosu Dinle	Radyo Tiyatrosu Dinle	Fiction	599	Spreaker	43
99	The Grotto	Athan	Fiction	26	Acast	63
100	1984, by George Orwell	Audiobooks by Librivox	Fiction	39	Spreaker	43

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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