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 03 Jun 2026

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06/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 242

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:40:11

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Voyage Media (4 shows)

3. Julian Simpson (4 shows)

4. Bloody FM (3 shows)

5. NOISER (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (36 shows)

2. Acast (18 shows)

3. BBC (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Libsyn (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Archers	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	241	BBC	58
2	Sherlock Holmes Short Stories	NOISER	Fiction	110	Megaphone	83
3	Sherlock & Co.	Goalhanger	Fiction	160	Megaphone	78
4	The Archers Omnibus	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	40	BBC	28
5	The Lovecraft Investigations	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	44	BBC	52
6	The Sleepy Bookshelf	Slumber Studios	Fiction	837	Simplecast	73
7	Jane Austen Stories	NOISER	Fiction	35	Acast	89
8	Taking Time	Voyage Media	Fiction	10	Megaphone	73
9	Limelight	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	294	BBC	38
10	National Emergency	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	10	Acast	69
11	Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu - Pre-Launch	Julian Simpson	Fiction	3	Captivate	42
12	Midnight Burger	Business Goose Media	Fiction	107	Megaphone	63
13	The Whisperer In Darkness	Julian Simpson	Fiction	10	Captivate	68
14	Welcome to Night Vale	Night Vale Presents	Fiction	381	Megaphone	53
15	Petrified	Liam Geraghty / Peter Dunne	Fiction	42	Acast	79
16	The Cleaner	Voyage Media	Fiction	10	Megaphone	73
17	Old Gods of Appalachia	DeepNerd Media	Fiction	146	Acast	69
18	Hell or High Rollers	Dice House Media ltd	Fiction	112	Acast	94
19	The NoSleep Podcast	Creative Reason Media	Fiction	732	Audioboom	48
20	The Road of Shadows	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	64	Megaphone	63
21	Last Resort	Voyage Media	Fiction	9	Megaphone	63
22	Tower 4	Bloody FM	Fiction	62	Simplecast	63
23	Drama of the Week	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	2	BBC	38
24	The Battersea Poltergeist	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	14	BBC	42
25	Mythos	Julian Simpson	Fiction	3	Captivate	58
26	Malevolent	Harlan Guthrie	Fiction	89	Acast	69
27	The White Vault	Fool and Scholar Productions	Fiction	116	Megaphone	79
28	The Leviathan Chronicles	Leviathan Audio Productions	Fiction	121	Megaphone	84
29	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward	Julian Simpson	Fiction	11	Captivate	58
30	Broken Veil	Cheese & Pickle	Fiction	18	Acast	64
31	REDACTED	Hush Studios	Fiction	79	Acast	74
32	The Harbingers	Audacious Machine Creative	Fiction	29	ART19	63
33	Wooden Overcoats	Wooden Overcoats Ltd	Fiction	59	Megaphone	53
34	Night Falls: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast	Sleepiest: Bedtime Story, Sleep Story, Sleep Podcast	Fiction	372	Megaphone	68
35	The Three Ravens Podcast	Three Ravens	Fiction	542	Acast	89
36	Beatrice Hart and the Curse of the Golden Fleece	Beatrice Hart Adventures	Fiction	8	Acast	48
37	Scary Horror Stories by Dr. NoSleep	Dr. NoSleep Studios	Fiction	961	Megaphone	53
38	We're Alive	Wayland Productions Inc	Fiction	241	Acast	84
39	Legends of Avantris	Avantris Entertainment	Fiction	438	Podbean	52
40	Wolf 359	Kinda Evil Genius Productions, LLC	Fiction	100	Megaphone	74
41	The Strata	Mark R. Healy	Fiction	163	Megaphone	58
42	Matt From Nomad’s	Matt Crabtree	Fiction	113	Spotify for Podcasters	48
43	Bunker 8	The Midnight Mystery	Fiction	40	Acast	63
44	Worlds Beyond Number	Worlds Beyond Number	Fiction	98	Simplecast	73
45	The Murderer Killings - A True* Crime Podcast	Michael Satow & Jack Canfora	Fiction	10	Buzzsprout	57
46	Charles Dickens Ghost Stories	NOISER	Fiction	9	Acast	63
47	The Black Tapes	Pacific Northwest Stories	Fiction	51	Libsyn	48
48	The Adventure Zone	The McElroys	Fiction	421	Simplecast	58
49	DERELICT	Night Rocket Productions	Fiction	44	Megaphone	53
50	DC High Volume: Batman	DC \| Realm	Fiction	52	Megaphone	69
51	Horrid Henry's Stories	unknown_author	Fiction	116	Megaphone	32
52	Classic Ghost Stories	Tony Walker	Fiction	393	Megaphone	63
53	The SCP Experience	Dr. NoSleep Studios	Fiction	565	Megaphone	59
54	Writing Excuses	Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler	Fiction	1009	RedCircle	63
55	Babalu	Uneasy Tiger	Fiction	13	Acast	79
56	The Dark Is Rising	BBC World Service	Fiction	13	BBC	53
57	Life Lines	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	18	BBC	33
58	Archive 81	Dead Signals	Fiction	51	Libsyn	68
59	Horror Stories	Horror Stories	Fiction	424	Megaphone	53
60	Stories from the Village of Nothing Much	Wellness Loud	Fiction	137	Megaphone	68
61	Knifepoint Horror Details temporarily unavailable	Soren Narnia	Fiction	126	Libsyn	43
62	Desert Skies	Jared Carter	Fiction	47	Megaphone	54
63	Six Minutes	GZM Shows	Fiction	389	ART19	63
64	British Spy Stories	Gabby Lane is Britain's most dangerous MI6 field officer.	Fiction	174	Spotify for Podcasters	38
65	The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings	Bloody FM	Fiction	169	Simplecast	68
66	CreepsMcPasta Creepypasta Radio	Creeps McPasta	Fiction	1011	Spreaker	48
67	The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories	Scott Miller	Fiction	600	Simplecast	58
68	Call Jonathan Pie	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	23	BBC	33
69	The Truth	The Truth	Fiction	194	Megaphone	59
70	How i Died	Audiohm Media	Fiction	78	Megaphone	53
71	Tolkien Lord Of The Rings - BBC	BRIAN SIBLEY	Fiction	13	Spotify for Podcasters	58
72	Send Me To Sleep	Send Me To Sleep	Fiction	1655	Simplecast	83
73	Darmok and Jalad at Podcast: Star Trek TNG rewatch	Pickaxe	Fiction	45	Megaphone	32
74	The Mysteries Of Derlin County	Brandon	Fiction	371	Libsyn	68
75	Warhammer 40k Lore to Sleep To	Jacob Slebodnik	Fiction	70	Acast	63
76	Primal	Voyage Media	Fiction	12	RedCircle	78
77	Limetown	Two-Up	Fiction	22	Megaphone	69
78	Edith!	QCODE, Crooked Media	Fiction	9	Megaphone	63
79	Não Inviabilize	Déia Freitas	Fiction	1378	Spotify for Podcasters	28
80	Scary Stories Told in the Dark — A Horror Fiction Anthology Series	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	462	Audioboom	52
81	The Red Eye	Ally Murphy	Fiction	140	Buzzsprout	83
82	1001 Sherlock Holmes Stories & The Best of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Arthur Conan Doyle	Fiction	320	Libsyn	42
83	From Now	QCODE	Fiction	7	Megaphone	73
84	The Classic Tales Podcast	B.J. Harrison	Fiction	300	Libsyn	57
85	Creepy	Be Afraid	Fiction	1253	Acast	69
86	Lighthouse Horror Podcast	Lighthouse Horror	Fiction	425	Spotify for Podcasters	41
87	The Gentleman From Hell	Maeltopia	Fiction	142	Acast	59
88	The Void	StillGood Audio Fiction	Fiction	58	Megaphone	79
89	Trap Street	Tony Martinez and Michael P. Greco	Fiction	28	Megaphone	59
90	The Amelia Project	Imploding Fictions	Fiction	147	Megaphone	48
91	Immerse Yourself in Stories Through Sound With Full Audiobook	hotaudiobook.com	Fiction	1989	Unknown	53
92	Phoebe Reads a Mystery	Vox Media Podcast Network	Fiction	778	Megaphone	59
93	Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	1	BBC	32
94	The Warning Woods \| Horror Stories	Miles Tritle	Fiction	260	Megaphone	38
95	Chilling Tales for Dark Nights — A Horror Fiction Anthology and Scary Stories Series Podcast	Chilling Entertainment	Fiction	500	Audioboom	37
96	The Red Weather	iHeartPodcasts	Fiction	9	Omny Studio	53
97	Scare You To Sleep	Bloody FM	Fiction	468	Simplecast	68
98	The Cleansed: A Post-Apocalyptic Saga	Realm	Fiction	40	Megaphone	58
99	WE'RE NOT MEANT TO KNOW	SpectreVision Radio	Fiction	56	Megaphone	43
100	The Grimoire Diaries	Stone Fable	Fiction	28	Acast	94

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in Great Britain

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