Apple Podcast Rankings - Great Britain - Personal Journals

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 01 Jul 2026

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07/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 206

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:44:31

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (13 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (6 shows)

3. Persephonica (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. Joy Peddlers (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. BBC (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (20 shows)

3. Acast (14 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Libsyn (4 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	178	Acast	58
2	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
3	Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball	Persephonica	Society & Culture	127	Acast	63
4	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	256	Acast	53
5	Sisters of Defiance	Anita Rani	Society & Culture	12	Acast	94
6	Sort Your Life Out Unpacked	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	26	BBC	42
7	Lush! with Joanna Page	Pixiu Podcasts	Society & Culture	63	Acast	59
8	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
9	Private Parts	Spirit Studios	Society & Culture	1273	Acast	64
10	Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	38
11	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	240	BBC	43
12	Victoria Derbyshire's Unbelievable Britain	Joy Peddlers	Society & Culture	31	Megaphone	42
13	Life Changing	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	82	BBC	33
14	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
15	Nolans Uncensored with Coleen Nolan, Shane and Ciara	Joy Peddlers	Society & Culture	22	Megaphone	42
16	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	20	Audioboom	63
17	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	439	RedCircle	63
18	Crisis What Crisis with Andy Coulson	Andy Coulson	Society & Culture	222	Captivate	68
19	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
20	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	31	Unknown	79
21	Oh, Anna!	The Fellas Studios	Society & Culture	29	Captivate	58
22	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
23	Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland	GoLoud	Society & Culture	97	Sharpstream	72
24	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
25	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
26	40ish \| The Funny Podcast on Perimenopause, Menopause & Midlife	Lauren Mishcon & Nicole Goodman - Menopause Humor & Midlife Conversations	Society & Culture	165	Megaphone	68
27	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
28	The Modern Mann	Olly Mann	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	83
29	Second Act with Ateh Jewel	Hello! Magazine Ltd.	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	63
30	Grounded with Louis Theroux	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	32
31	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
32	Saturday Live	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	812	BBC	28
33	The Shift with Sam Baker	sam baker	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	84
34	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
35	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	207	RedCircle	48
36	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	38	Acast	84
37	Voicenotes with Jordan Theresa	Voicenotes with Jordan Theresa	Society & Culture	111	Megaphone	32
38	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	209	BBC	28
39	Rylan: How to Be...	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	49
40	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	581	Audion	83
41	Last Word	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	584	BBC	28
42	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	383	Megaphone	48
43	Young Again	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	28	BBC	33
44	Desert Island Discs: Archive: 2016-2018	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	126	BBC	38
45	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	247	BBC	38
46	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	193	ART19	63
47	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	209	BBC	38
48	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	168	Megaphone	48
49	Life After Prison	Prison Radio Association	Society & Culture	188	Acast	58
50	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	230	Spreaker	78
51	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	182	Spotify for Podcasters	58
52	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	345	Megaphone	42
53	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	27	PRX	69
54	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	246	BBC	28
56	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	371	Megaphone	58
57	Mer än bara morsa!	Kenza & Ines	Society & Culture	233	Acast	49
58	You About?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	57	BBC	39
59	Secrets of the Salt Path	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	9	BBC	33
60	Everything Changed with Rosie Fawehimi	Rosie Fawehimi	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	52
61	Namaste Motherf**kers	Cally Beaton	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	53
62	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	284	Libsyn	48
63	Here For The Craic with Emma Neill	Emma Neill	Society & Culture	255	Megaphone	32
64	How To Own The Room	Viv Groskop	Society & Culture	170	Libsyn	73
65	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	99	Megaphone	48
66	Ami Charlize's Private Story Details temporarily unavailable	Folding Pocket	Society & Culture	86	Megaphone	78
67	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1005	Spotify for Podcasters	22
68	Dua Lipa: At Your Service	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	39	BBC	33
69	Walking This Way	Lise Thorne	Society & Culture	35	Transistor	73
70	The Striving Butterfly	Coleen Myers	Society & Culture	52	Buzzsprout	84
71	Not Quite Typical: AuDHD & Neurodivergent Conversations	Amber Nap	Society & Culture	18	Spotify for Podcasters	32
72	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
73	Liveline	RTÉ Radio 1	Society & Culture	109	Omny Studio	38
74	Behind The Mirror Podcast	Behind The Mirror Podcast did	Society & Culture	56	Spotify for Podcasters	11
75	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
76	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
77	بودكاست البحث عن معنى	كوثر الناصر	Society & Culture	65	Libsyn	63
78	A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard	A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard	Society & Culture	137	Acast	68
79	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	90	Acast	63
80	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	136	Simplecast	62
81	Have You Heard George's Podcast?	BBC Sounds	Personal Journals	42	BBC	42
82	Midlife Answers	Rachel Fortune	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	49
83	Motherloading Podcast	TAEPodcast	Society & Culture	29	Buzzsprout	58
84	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
85	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	145	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	In The Heart Of The Vault	Lindsay Taylor	Society & Culture	45	Spotify for Podcasters	22
87	Amol Rajan Interviews...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	43
88	Planet Porky	Planet Porky	Society & Culture	290	Audioboom	53
89	in the meadow	vicinthemeadow	Society & Culture	172	Acast	48
90	Women in Focus	British Naturism	Society & Culture	34	Blubrry Podcasting	69
91	MID	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	73	Omny Studio	58
92	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	277	Spreaker	59
93	if we don't laugh, we'll cry	ifwedon'tlaugh	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	38
94	In the Psychiatrist's Chair	BBC Radio 4 Extra	Society & Culture	29	BBC	38
95	Chris Thrall's Bought the T-Shirt Podcast	CHRIS THRALL	Society & Culture	587	Libsyn	42
96	You Probably Think This Story’s About You	Brittani Ard	Society & Culture	58	Megaphone	63
97	Vishal	BBC Studios	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	83
98	DNA Trail	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	9	BBC	33
99	STORIES by Lea Thau	Lea Thau	Society & Culture	18	Acast	53
100	Reddit’s Most Shocking Stories: Jaw-Dropping Tales from Reddit	Reddit’s Most Shocking Stories: Jaw-Dropping Tales from Reddit	Society & Culture	578	Megaphone	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.

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