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 Oct 2026

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10/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 228

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:43:30

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (24 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

3. BBC World Service (3 shows)

4. Joy Peddlers (2 shows)

5. Persephonica (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. BBC (31 shows)

2. Megaphone (20 shows)

3. Acast (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. RedCircle (3 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	183	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	132	Acast	63
4	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	262	Acast	53
5	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
6	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
7	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	242	BBC	43
8	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	63
9	Lush! with Joanna Page	Pixiu Podcasts	Society & Culture	68	Acast	59
11	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	442	RedCircle	63
12	Crossing Continents	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	422	BBC	28
13	New Chapters Podcast with Isabel Webster	New Chapters Podcast with Isabel Webster	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	57
14	LivingYosh	Joshua "Yosh" Markell	Society & Culture	38	Spotify for Podcasters	43
15	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
16	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
17	Grounded with Louis Theroux	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	32
18	Sisters of Defiance	Anita Rani	Society & Culture	12	Acast	94
19	Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	38
20	Crisis What Crisis with Andy Coulson	Andy Coulson	Society & Culture	225	Captivate	68
21	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	209	BBC	38
22	Private Parts	Spirit Studios	Society & Culture	1279	Acast	64
23	Nolans Uncensored with Coleen Nolan, Shane and Ciara	Joy Peddlers	Society & Culture	25	Megaphone	42
24	Life Changing	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	82	BBC	33
25	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	212	RedCircle	48
26	Oh, Anna!	The Fellas Studios	Society & Culture	32	Captivate	58
27	Desert Island Discs: Archive: 2016-2018	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	126	BBC	38
28	Sort Your Life Out Unpacked	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	26	BBC	42
29	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	79
30	40ish \| The Funny Podcast on Perimenopause, Menopause & Midlife	Lauren Mishcon & Nicole Goodman - Menopause Humor & Midlife Conversations	Society & Culture	172	Megaphone	68
31	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
32	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
33	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
34	Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland	GoLoud	Society & Culture	100	Sharpstream	72
35	Walking This Way	Lise Thorne	Society & Culture	37	Transistor	73
36	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	174	Megaphone	48
37	Everything Changed with Rosie Fawehimi	Rosie Fawehimi	Society & Culture	17	Spotify for Podcasters	47
38	Project Possible with Rich Leigh - interviews that might just change your life	Rich Leigh - interviews about motivation, resilience and what's truly possible	Society & Culture	102	Spotify for Podcasters	62
39	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	428	RedCircle	59
40	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	247	BBC	38
41	The Shift with Sam Baker	sam baker	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	84
42	Between Two Beers Podcast	Steven Holloway & Seamus Marten	Society & Culture	436	Acast	28
43	Saturday Live	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	814	BBC	28
44	Second Act with Ateh Jewel	Hello! Magazine Ltd.	Society & Culture	87	Megaphone	63
45	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	354	Megaphone	42
46	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	375	Megaphone	58
47	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	233	Spreaker	78
48	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	26	Megaphone	79
49	Last Word	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	586	BBC	28
50	The Modern Mann	Olly Mann	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	83
51	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	22	Audioboom	63
52	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	218	BBC	28
53	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
54	Young Again	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	28	BBC	33
55	Victoria Derbyshire's Unbelievable Britain	Joy Peddlers	Society & Culture	31	Megaphone	42
56	Ami Charlize's Private Story Details temporarily unavailable	Folding Pocket	Society & Culture	86	Megaphone	78
57	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	286	Libsyn	48
58	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	204	BBC	28
59	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
60	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	40	Acast	84
61	Bang On It	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	15	BBC	39
62	Amol Rajan Interviews...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	43
63	Tea at Four	Four Nine	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1038	Spotify for Podcasters	22
65	Dua Lipa: At Your Service	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	39	BBC	33
66	Voicenotes with Jordan Theresa	Voicenotes with Jordan Theresa	Society & Culture	113	Megaphone	32
67	Here For The Craic with Emma Neill	Emma Neill	Society & Culture	257	Megaphone	32
68	Namaste Motherf**kers	Cally Beaton	Society & Culture	288	Megaphone	53
69	The Life and Times of a Cornish Funeral Director	David Bray	Society & Culture	211	Buzzsprout	42
70	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
71	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
72	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	246	BBC	28
73	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	209	BBC	28
74	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	226	Spotify for Podcasters	52
75	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1996-2000	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	124	BBC	28
76	How To Own The Room	Viv Groskop	Society & Culture	170	Libsyn	73
77	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	107	Megaphone	48
78	Inheritance Tracks	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	911	BBC	28
79	Rylan: How to Be...	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	49
80	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	387	Megaphone	48
81	The Martha Stewart Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	123	Omny Studio	57
82	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	92	Acast	63
83	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
84	Now You're Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	52	BBC	43
85	老谢和小谢	老谢&小谢	Society & Culture	44	Unknown	38
86	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	185	Spotify for Podcasters	58
87	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1971-1975	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	55	BBC	28
88	Witness History: World War Two history	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	121	BBC	22
89	Life After Prison	Prison Radio Association	Society & Culture	191	Acast	58
90	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	587	Audiomeans	83
91	Reddit Stories Podcast - mr redder	mr redder	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	59
92	Getting Heard: The Daily Pod Shot	Lynsay Gould	Society & Culture	39	Captivate	52
93	Café Hope	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	67	BBC	48
94	The TED Interview	TED	Society & Culture	117	PRX	64
95	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	198	ART19	63
96	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
97	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	141	Simplecast	62
98	Parlons-nous	RTL	Society & Culture	124	Audiomeans	49
99	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	243	BBC	28
100	Creativity Found: Finding Creativity Later in Life	Claire Waite Brown	Society & Culture	154	Buzzsprout	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.

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