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 Oct 2026

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10/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 213

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:46:03

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (21 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (5 shows)

3. Persephonica (2 shows)

4. Joy Peddlers (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. BBC (29 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (4 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	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	129	Omny Studio	53
7	Things Fell Apart	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
9	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	242	BBC	43
10	Lush! with Joanna Page	Pixiu Podcasts	Society & Culture	69	Acast	59
11	LivingYosh	Joshua "Yosh" Markell	Society & Culture	38	Spotify for Podcasters	43
12	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
13	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	442	RedCircle	63
14	Grounded with Louis Theroux	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	32
15	New Chapters Podcast with Isabel Webster	New Chapters Podcast with Isabel Webster	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	57
16	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	213	RedCircle	48
17	Life Changing	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	82	BBC	33
18	Crossing Continents	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	422	BBC	28
19	Oh, Anna!	The Fellas Studios	Society & Culture	32	Captivate	58
20	Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	38
21	Private Parts	Spirit Studios	Society & Culture	1279	Acast	64
22	Crisis What Crisis with Andy Coulson	Andy Coulson	Society & Culture	225	Captivate	68
23	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	58
24	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	209	BBC	38
25	Sisters of Defiance	Anita Rani	Society & Culture	12	Acast	94
26	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
27	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	79
28	Sort Your Life Out Unpacked	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	26	BBC	42
29	40ish \| The Funny Podcast on Perimenopause, Menopause & Midlife	Lauren Mishcon & Nicole Goodman - Menopause Humor & Midlife Conversations	Society & Culture	172	Megaphone	68
30	Desert Island Discs: Archive: 2016-2018	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	126	BBC	38
31	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
32	Nolans Uncensored with Coleen Nolan, Shane and Ciara	Joy Peddlers	Society & Culture	25	Megaphone	42
33	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	53
34	Second Act with Ateh Jewel	Hello! Magazine Ltd.	Society & Culture	87	Megaphone	63
35	Ami Charlize's Private Story Details temporarily unavailable	Folding Pocket	Society & Culture	86	Megaphone	78
36	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
37	Everything Changed with Rosie Fawehimi	Rosie Fawehimi	Society & Culture	17	Spotify for Podcasters	47
38	The Modern Mann	Olly Mann	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	83
39	Walking This Way	Lise Thorne	Society & Culture	37	Transistor	73
40	Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland	GoLoud	Society & Culture	100	Sharpstream	72
41	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	233	Spreaker	78
42	Amol Rajan Interviews...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	43
43	In The Heart Of The Vault	Lindsay Taylor	Society & Culture	49	Spotify for Podcasters	17
44	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	174	Megaphone	48
45	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	429	RedCircle	59
46	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	247	BBC	38
47	Between Two Beers Podcast	Steven Holloway & Seamus Marten	Society & Culture	436	Acast	28
48	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	376	Megaphone	58
49	Saturday Live	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	814	BBC	28
50	The Shift with Sam Baker	sam baker	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	84
51	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	354	Megaphone	42
52	Voicenotes with Jordan Theresa	Voicenotes with Jordan Theresa	Society & Culture	114	Megaphone	32
53	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
54	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	40	Acast	84
55	Love and Radio	Love and Radio \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	95	Megaphone	68
56	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	26	Megaphone	79
57	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	22	Audioboom	63
58	Last Word	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	586	BBC	28
59	Life After Prison	Prison Radio Association	Society & Culture	191	Acast	58
60	Dua Lipa: At Your Service	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	39	BBC	33
61	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
62	Girls Next Door	Rolln Media	Society & Culture	30	Omny Studio	83
63	Here For The Craic with Emma Neill	Emma Neill	Society & Culture	257	Megaphone	32
64	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	218	BBC	28
65	Young Again	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	28	BBC	33
66	How To Own The Room	Viv Groskop	Society & Culture	170	Libsyn	73
67	The Secret Room \| True Stories	Ben Hamm	Society & Culture	286	Libsyn	48
68	Victoria Derbyshire's Unbelievable Britain	Joy Peddlers	Society & Culture	31	Megaphone	42
69	Let Her Finish	rova \| Brodie Kane Media	Society & Culture	350	Megaphone	38
70	Toast	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	53
71	Near Death Experiences And Supernatural Events	The NDE LAB	Society & Culture	1038	Spotify for Podcasters	22
72	Bang On It	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	15	BBC	39
73	1800 Seconds on Autism	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	33
74	Getting Heard: The Daily Pod Shot	Lynsay Gould	Society & Culture	40	Captivate	52
75	Tea at Four	Four Nine	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	38
76	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	204	BBC	28
77	The TED Interview	TED	Society & Culture	117	PRX	64
78	Square Peg in a Round Hole	Rebecca Guillain	Society & Culture	3	Unknown	32
79	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	387	Megaphone	48
80	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	209	BBC	28
81	Namaste Motherf**kers	Cally Beaton	Society & Culture	288	Megaphone	53
82	Invisibilia	NPR	Society & Culture	89	Simplecast	73
83	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	302	Simplecast	63
84	MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie Lynn Sigler	Wishbone Production	Society & Culture	141	Simplecast	62
85	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1996-2000	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	124	BBC	28
86	Combat Fuel Podcast	Combat Fuel Podcast	Society & Culture	19	Audioboom	58
87	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	147	Spotify for Podcasters	52
88	A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard	A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard	Society & Culture	139	Acast	68
89	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	246	BBC	28
90	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
91	Get a Grip Podcast	Louis Essig and Aaron Garnes	Society & Culture	227	Spotify for Podcasters	52
92	Living a Nordic Life with Fiona McKinna	Fiona McKinna	Society & Culture	97	Buzzsprout	53
93	The Life and Times of a Cornish Funeral Director	David Bray	Society & Culture	211	Buzzsprout	42
94	Easily Distrcted Podcast	Easily Distrcted Podcast	Society & Culture	37	Spotify for Podcasters	37
95	Good Grief with Amanda Kloots	Dear Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
96	How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	54	BBC	28
97	Rylan: How to Be...	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	49
98	Inheritance Tracks	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	911	BBC	28
99	Mer än bara morsa!	Kenza & Ines	Society & Culture	241	Acast	49
100	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	107	Megaphone	48

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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