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 02 Jul 2026

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07/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:43:46

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (14 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (7 shows)

3. Persephonica (2 shows)

4. Joy Peddlers (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. BBC (26 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Acast (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 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	Nolans Uncensored with Coleen Nolan, Shane and Ciara	Joy Peddlers	Society & Culture	22	Megaphone	42
8	Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	38
9	Lush! with Joanna Page	Pixiu Podcasts	Society & Culture	63	Acast	59
10	Victoria Derbyshire's Unbelievable Britain	Joy Peddlers	Society & Culture	31	Megaphone	42
11	Private Parts	Spirit Studios	Society & Culture	1273	Acast	64
12	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
13	Life Changing	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	82	BBC	33
14	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
15	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	240	BBC	43
16	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	31	Unknown	79
17	Crisis What Crisis with Andy Coulson	Andy Coulson	Society & Culture	222	Captivate	68
18	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	439	RedCircle	63
19	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
20	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
21	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	20	Audioboom	63
22	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
23	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
24	Second Act with Ateh Jewel	Hello! Magazine Ltd.	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	63
25	Oh, Anna!	The Fellas Studios	Society & Culture	29	Captivate	58
26	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
27	Grounded with Louis Theroux	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	32
28	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
29	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
30	Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland	GoLoud	Society & Culture	97	Sharpstream	72
31	40ish \| The Funny Podcast on Perimenopause, Menopause & Midlife	Lauren Mishcon & Nicole Goodman - Menopause Humor & Midlife Conversations	Society & Culture	165	Megaphone	68
32	ThreadTalk: The Reddit Review Show	Teresa and Denver	Society & Culture	193	ART19	63
33	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	207	RedCircle	48
34	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	383	Megaphone	48
35	Desert Island Discs: Archive: 2016-2018	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	126	BBC	38
36	The Shift with Sam Baker	sam baker	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	84
37	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	38	Acast	84
38	The Modern Mann	Olly Mann	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	83
39	Saturday Live	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	812	BBC	28
40	Rylan: How to Be...	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	49
41	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	99	Megaphone	48
42	Dua Lipa: At Your Service	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	39	BBC	33
43	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	247	BBC	38
44	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	209	BBC	28
45	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	345	Megaphone	42
46	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	581	Audion	83
47	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	182	Spotify for Podcasters	58
48	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	27	PRX	69
49	You About?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	57	BBC	39
50	Life After Prison	Prison Radio Association	Society & Culture	188	Acast	58
51	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	168	Megaphone	48
52	Let's Talk Tallulah	Rachel Wardley	Society & Culture	8	Unknown	53
53	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	209	BBC	38
54	Young Again	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	28	BBC	33
55	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	136	Simplecast	62
56	Voicenotes with Jordan Theresa	Voicenotes with Jordan Theresa	Society & Culture	111	Megaphone	32
57	The Missing Matter	Sally Leydon	Society & Culture	49	Spotify for Podcasters	53
58	Everything Changed with Rosie Fawehimi	Rosie Fawehimi	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	52
60	Namaste Motherf**kers	Cally Beaton	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	53
61	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	230	Spreaker	78
62	Last Word	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	584	BBC	28
63	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
64	Motherloading Podcast	TAEPodcast	Society & Culture	29	Buzzsprout	58
65	1800 Seconds on Autism	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	33
66	How To Own The Room	Viv Groskop	Society & Culture	170	Libsyn	73
67	Walking This Way	Lise Thorne	Society & Culture	35	Transistor	73
68	Stacey Dooley	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	7	BBC	33
69	The Decorators Den Podcast	Barry Prescott-Dyas- Sean little	Society & Culture	41	RSS.com	47
70	Mer än bara morsa!	Kenza & Ines	Society & Culture	233	Acast	49
71	Behind The Mirror Podcast	Behind The Mirror Podcast did	Society & Culture	56	Spotify for Podcasters	11
72	Have You Heard George's Podcast?	BBC Sounds	Personal Journals	42	BBC	42
73	The FarmHer Files	The FarmHer Files	Society & Culture	35	Buzzsprout	53
74	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	371	Megaphone	58
75	Parlons-nous	RTL	Society & Culture	125	Audiomeans	54
76	The Striving Butterfly	Coleen Myers	Society & Culture	52	Buzzsprout	84
77	The Apple & The Tree	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	26	Acast	89
78	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	277	Spreaker	59
79	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1005	Spotify for Podcasters	22
80	in the meadow	vicinthemeadow	Society & Culture	172	Acast	48
81	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
82	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
83	Head Game	Nova Podcasts	Society & Culture	132	Omny Studio	89
84	Jason Fox Wild Tales Podcast – The Book of Man	The Book Of Man	Society & Culture	27	Acast	32
85	The TED Interview	TED	Society & Culture	117	PRX	64
86	My Life in a Biscuit Tin	Good Housekeeping UK	Society & Culture	17	Megaphone	53
87	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	246	BBC	28
88	Liveline	RTÉ Radio 1	Society & Culture	109	Omny Studio	38
89	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	218	BBC	28
90	Secrets of the Salt Path	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	9	BBC	33
91	Amol Rajan Interviews...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	43
92	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
93	DNA Trail	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	9	BBC	33
94	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
95	Granddaughter of Immigrants	Erika Hanchar	Society & Culture	21	Feedburner	52
96	Room 20	Los Angeles Times	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
97	Hope Springs with Annabel Heseltine	The Resurgence Trust	Society & Culture	11	Castos	68
98	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
99	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	284	Libsyn	48
100	Ami Charlize's Private Story Details temporarily unavailable	Folding Pocket	Society & Culture	86	Megaphone	78

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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