Apple Podcast Rankings - Great Britain - Fiction

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 02 Jun 2026

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06/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 212

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:36:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

2. Voyage Media (6 shows)

3. Julian Simpson (4 shows)

4. Bloody FM (3 shows)

5. NOISER (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (38 shows)

2. Acast (18 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (9 shows)

5. Libsyn (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Archers	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	241	BBC	58
2	The Archers Omnibus	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	40	BBC	28
3	Sherlock Holmes Short Stories	NOISER	Fiction	110	Megaphone	83
4	Sherlock & Co.	Goalhanger	Fiction	160	Megaphone	78
5	Taking Time	Voyage Media	Fiction	10	Megaphone	73
6	The Lovecraft Investigations	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	44	BBC	52
7	The Sleepy Bookshelf	Slumber Studios	Fiction	837	Simplecast	73
8	Jane Austen Stories	NOISER	Fiction	35	Acast	89
9	Limelight	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	294	BBC	38
10	National Emergency	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	10	Acast	69
11	Petrified	Liam Geraghty / Peter Dunne	Fiction	42	Acast	79
12	Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu - Pre-Launch	Julian Simpson	Fiction	3	Captivate	42
13	Welcome to Night Vale	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	381	Megaphone	53
14	The Cleaner	Voyage Media	Fiction	10	Megaphone	73
15	The NoSleep Podcast	Creative Reason Media	Fiction	732	Audioboom	48
16	Drama of the Week	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	2	BBC	38
17	Midnight Burger	Business Goose Media	Fiction	107	Megaphone	63
18	Tower 4	Bloody FM	Fiction	62	Simplecast	63
19	Hell or High Rollers	Dice House Media ltd	Fiction	112	Acast	94
20	Last Resort	Voyage Media	Fiction	9	Megaphone	63
21	Broken Veil	Cheese & Pickle	Fiction	18	Acast	64
22	The Leviathan Chronicles	Leviathan Audio Productions	Fiction	121	Megaphone	84
23	The Whisperer In Darkness	Julian Simpson	Fiction	10	Captivate	68
24	The Road of Shadows	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	64	Megaphone	63
25	Night Falls: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast	Sleepiest: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast	Fiction	372	Megaphone	68
26	We're Alive	Wayland Productions Inc	Fiction	241	Acast	84
27	Legends of Avantris	Avantris Entertainment	Fiction	438	Podbean	52
28	Malevolent	Harlan Guthrie	Fiction	89	Acast	69
29	Worlds Beyond Number	Worlds Beyond Number	Fiction	98	Simplecast	73
30	Mythos	Julian Simpson	Fiction	3	Captivate	58
31	The Harbingers	Audacious Machine Creative	Fiction	29	ART19	63
32	The Battersea Poltergeist	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	14	BBC	42
33	Wooden Overcoats	Wooden Overcoats Ltd	Fiction	59	Megaphone	53
34	The Three Ravens Podcast	Three Ravens	Fiction	542	Acast	89
35	The White Vault	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	116	Megaphone	79
36	DC High Volume: Batman	DC \| Realm	Fiction	52	Megaphone	69
37	The Adventure Zone	The McElroys	Fiction	421	Simplecast	58
38	The Strata	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	163	Megaphone	58
39	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	Julian Simpson	Fiction	11	Captivate	58
40	The Murderer Killings - A True* Crime Podcast	Michael Satow & Jack Canfora	Fiction	10	Buzzsprout	57
41	Matt From Nomad’s	Matt Crabtree	Fiction	113	Spotify for Podcasters	48
42	REDACTED	Hush Studios	Fiction	79	Acast	74
43	Horrid Henry's Stories	unknown_author	Fiction	116	Megaphone	32
44	Charles Dickens Ghost Stories	NOISER	Fiction	9	Acast	63
45	Babalu	Uneasy Tiger	Fiction	13	Acast	79
46	Wolf 359	Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC	Fiction	100	Megaphone	74
47	Old Gods of Appalachia	DeepNerd Media	Fiction	146	Acast	69
48	Six Minutes	GZM Shows	Fiction	389	ART19	63
49	Knifepoint Horror Details temporarily unavailable	Soren Narnia	Fiction	126	Libsyn	43
50	Horror Stories	Horror Stories	Fiction	424	Megaphone	53
51	Scary Horror Stories by Dr. NoSleep	Dr. NoSleep Studios	Fiction	961	Megaphone	53
52	Beatrice Hart and the Curse of the Golden Fleece	Beatrice Hart Adventures	Fiction	8	Acast	48
53	1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Arthur Conan Doyle	Fiction	320	Libsyn	42
54	Lighthouse Horror Podcast	Lighthouse Horror	Fiction	425	Spotify for Podcasters	41
55	Não Inviabilize	Déia Freitas	Fiction	1378	Spotify for Podcasters	28
56	The Black Tapes	Pacific Northwest Stories	Fiction	51	Libsyn	48
57	British Spy Stories	Gabby Lane is Britain's most dangerous MI6 field officer.	Fiction	174	Spotify for Podcasters	38
58	The Gentleman From Hell	Maeltopia	Fiction	142	Acast	59
59	The Mysteries Of Derlin County	Brandon	Fiction	371	Libsyn	68
60	Classic Ghost Stories	Tony Walker	Fiction	393	Megaphone	63
61	The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings	Bloody FM	Fiction	169	Simplecast	68
62	Stories from the Village of Nothing Much	Wellness Loud	Fiction	137	Megaphone	68
63	The Amelia Project	Imploding Fictions	Fiction	147	Megaphone	48
64	Hard Drive	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	Megaphone	73
65	Call Jonathan Pie	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	23	BBC	33
66	Darmok and Jalad at Podcast: Star Trek TNG rewatch	Pickaxe	Fiction	45	Megaphone	32
67	The Truth	The Truth	Fiction	194	Megaphone	59
68	Writing Excuses	Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler	Fiction	1009	RedCircle	63
69	Send Me To Sleep	Send Me To Sleep	Fiction	1655	Simplecast	83
70	We Fix Space Junk	Battle Bird Productions	Fiction	87	Megaphone	63
71	Creepy	Be Afraid	Fiction	1253	Acast	69
72	Life Lines	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	18	BBC	33
73	How i Died	Audiohm Media	Fiction	78	Megaphone	53
74	Archive 81	Dead Signals	Fiction	51	Libsyn	68
75	DERELICT	Night Rocket Productions	Fiction	44	Megaphone	53
76	The Dark Is Rising	BBC World Service	Fiction	13	BBC	53
77	Chilling Tales for Dark Nights — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	500	Audioboom	37
78	TANIS	Public Radio Alliance	Fiction	65	Libsyn	78
79	The Classic Tales Podcast	B.J. Harrison	Fiction	300	Libsyn	57
80	John Carpenter Presents Something Wicked	Read Ridley, Bloody FM	Fiction	18	Simplecast	52
81	Trap Street	Tony Martinez and Michael P. Greco	Fiction	28	Megaphone	59
82	The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories	Scott Miller	Fiction	600	Simplecast	58
83	The Left Right Game	QCODE	Fiction	11	Megaphone	78
84	Alice Isn't Dead	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	71	Megaphone	68
85	Phoebe Reads a Mystery	Vox Media Podcast Network	Fiction	778	Megaphone	59
86	Limetown	Two-Up	Fiction	22	Megaphone	69
87	Acephale: Horror Fiction	Jeffrey Walker	Fiction	76	Megaphone	38
88	Edith!	QCODE, Crooked Media	Fiction	9	Megaphone	63
89	Last Dance	Blackabbey Productions	Fiction	18	Acast	69
90	The Warning Woods \| Horror Stories	Miles Tritle	Fiction	260	Megaphone	38
91	CreepsMcPasta Creepypasta Radio	Creeps McPasta	Fiction	1011	Spreaker	48
92	Entombed	Voyage Media	Fiction	11	Megaphone	73
93	Primal	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	RedCircle	78
94	The Grimoire Diaries	Stone Fable	Fiction	28	Acast	94
95	Scare You To Sleep	Bloody FM	Fiction	468	Simplecast	68
96	Warhammer 40k Lore to Sleep To	Jacob Slebodnik	Fiction	70	Acast	63
97	Listening In	QCODE	Fiction	11	Megaphone	59
98	Arc	BBC Sounds	Fiction	21	BBC	63
99	James Pond, starring David Mitchell and Tamsin Greig	Listen & Often	Fiction	2	Spotify for Podcasters	22
100	Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production	Alex Nursall & Emily Kellogg	Fiction	75	Megaphone	63

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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