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 23 mai 2026

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05/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 181

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:41:48

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (19 shows)

2. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

3. Joy Peddlers (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. Persephonica (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. BBC (29 shows)

2. Megaphone (19 shows)

3. Acast (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	Sisters of Defiance	Anita Rani	Society & Culture	12	Acast	94
5	Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	38
6	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	256	Acast	53
7	Everything Changed with Rosie Fawehimi	Rosie Fawehimi	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	52
8	Sort Your Life Out Unpacked	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	26	BBC	42
9	Life Changing	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	82	BBC	33
10	Private Parts	Spirit Studios	Society & Culture	1273	Acast	64
11	Lush! with Joanna Page	Pixiu Podcasts	Society & Culture	63	Acast	59
12	Heavyweight	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	126	Omny Studio	63
13	Bang On It	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	15	BBC	39
14	Brand Safe	Tana Mongeau	Society & Culture	20	Audioboom	63
15	Victoria Derbyshire's Unbelievable Britain	Joy Peddlers	Society & Culture	31	Megaphone	42
16	Nolans Uncensored with Coleen Nolan, Shane and Ciara	Joy Peddlers	Society & Culture	22	Megaphone	42
17	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
18	The Dark Paranormal	The Dark Paranormal	Society & Culture	439	RedCircle	63
19	This is Love	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
20	Witness History	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2011	BBC	39
21	Oh, Anna!	The Fellas Studios	Society & Culture	29	Captivate	58
22	Dead Eyes	Headgum	Society & Culture	35	ART19	83
23	Second Act with Ateh Jewel	Hello! Magazine Ltd.	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	63
24	Jim Harold's Campfire	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	58
25	40ish \| The Funny Podcast on Perimenopause, Menopause & Midlife	Lauren Mishcon & Nicole Goodman - Menopause Humor & Midlife Conversations	Society & Culture	165	Megaphone	68
26	Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland	GoLoud	Society & Culture	97	Sharpstream	72
27	The Missing Matter	Sally Leydon	Society & Culture	49	Spotify for Podcasters	53
28	Young Again	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	28	BBC	33
29	S-Town	Serial Productions	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
30	Witch	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	43
31	Crisis What Crisis with Andy Coulson	Andy Coulson	Society & Culture	222	Captivate	68
32	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	240	BBC	43
33	REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal	Jon Bernthal	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
34	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	247	BBC	38
35	Desert Island Discs: Archive: 2016-2018	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	126	BBC	38
36	Secrets of the Salt Path	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	9	BBC	33
37	Between Two Beers Podcast	Steven Holloway & Seamus Marten	Society & Culture	431	Acast	28
38	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	209	BBC	38
39	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	424	RedCircle	59
40	True Scary Story	Scary Stories	Society & Culture	230	Spreaker	78
41	Ami Charlize's Private Story Details temporarily unavailable	Folding Pocket	Society & Culture	86	Megaphone	78
42	Grounded with Louis Theroux	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	32
43	Hey Tablo	Team Epikase	Society & Culture	38	Acast	84
44	Sit Down with Michael Franzese	Michael Franzese	Society & Culture	168	Megaphone	48
45	Crossing Continents	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	420	BBC	28
46	Have You Heard George's Podcast?	BBC Sounds	Personal Journals	42	BBC	42
47	Rylan: How to Be...	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	49
48	Everybody Knows But Me	Holly Brown, Next Chapter Podcasts, Companion	Society & Culture	23	Megaphone	79
49	The Shift with Sam Baker	sam baker	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	84
50	Stephing Up	TBC Studios	Society & Culture	71	Megaphone	89
51	In the Psychiatrist's Chair	BBC Radio 4 Extra	Society & Culture	29	BBC	38
52	Disturbed: True Horror Stories	Evergreen Podcasts	Society & Culture	383	Megaphone	48
53	What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.	Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media.	Society & Culture	371	Megaphone	58
54	Last Word	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	584	BBC	28
55	Namaste Motherf**kers	Cally Beaton	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	53
56	SECOND WIND	John Talks About	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	48
57	Cancelled with Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Tana Mongeau & Brooke Schofield	Society & Culture	132	Audioboom	58
58	Life After Prison	Prison Radio Association	Society & Culture	188	Acast	58
59	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1986-1991	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	218	BBC	28
60	Desperately Seeking	Mikhila McDaid	Society & Culture	56	Substack	49
61	Tea at Four	Four Nine	Society & Culture	152	Spotify for Podcasters	38
62	Proxy with Yowei Shaw	Yowei Shaw	Society & Culture	27	PRX	69
63	Now You're Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	52	BBC	43
64	The Anthropocene Reviewed	Complexly, John Green	Society & Culture	37	ART19	57
65	The Boy in the Woods	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	12	BBC	49
66	Transfert	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	581	Audion	83
67	Desert Island Discs: Archive 2000-2005	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	209	BBC	28
68	Before the Work Begins	Jo Hutton	Society & Culture	16	Substack	59
69	Behind The Mirror Podcast	Behind The Mirror Podcast did	Society & Culture	56	Spotify for Podcasters	11
70	Head Game	Nova Podcasts	Society & Culture	132	Omny Studio	89
71	Motherloading Podcast	TAEPodcast	Society & Culture	29	Buzzsprout	58
72	Nothing’s Off the Table with Louis Ruggiero	Louis Ruggiero	Society & Culture	99	Megaphone	48
73	How To Own The Room	Viv Groskop	Society & Culture	170	Libsyn	73
74	You're So Right	Caitlin Wilder and Rachael Shepard-Ohta	Society & Culture	90	Acast	63
75	Zoe Ball and Friends	BBC Radio 2	Society & Culture	69	BBC	33
76	Walking This Way	Lise Thorne	Society & Culture	35	Transistor	73
77	Erotic Stories by Krystine	Krystine Kellogg	Society & Culture	54	Buzzsprout	48
78	The Person Who Believed In Me with David Begnaud	Do Good Crew	Society & Culture	31	Unknown	79
79	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories	Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	277	Spreaker	59
80	These Three Things	These Three Things	Society & Culture	37	Spotify for Podcasters	63
81	Emotionally Online	Maddie Dragsbaek	Society & Culture	207	RedCircle	48
82	Desert Island Discs: Archive 1991-1996	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	246	BBC	28
83	Amol Rajan Interviews...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	43
84	In Dark Corners	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	10	BBC	63
85	Mystery Show	Gimlet	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	43
86	Pineapple Pinup: Hotwife Swingers Life	Tasty Tress	Society & Culture	145	Spotify for Podcasters	52
87	Voicenotes with Jordan Theresa	Voicenotes with Jordan Theresa	Society & Culture	111	Megaphone	32
88	Girls Next Door	Rolln Media	Society & Culture	27	Omny Studio	83
89	How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	54	BBC	28
90	The Archer Podcast	Dennis Archer	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	28
91	Focus on WHY	Amy Rowlinson	Society & Culture	531	Libsyn	68
92	A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard	A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard	Society & Culture	137	Acast	68
93	Disaster Trolls	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1	BBC	39
94	The Modern Mann	Olly Mann	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	83
95	DNA Surprises	Alexis Hourselt	Society & Culture	182	Spotify for Podcasters	58
96	Rise Above with Kevin Lanning	Kevin Lanning	Society & Culture	345	Megaphone	42
97	Sliding Doors	Jennie Becker	Society & Culture	170	Acast	69
98	Room 20	Los Angeles Times	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
99	Change Agent	The New York Times	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	69
100	The Determined Society with Shawn French \| Adversity & Mindset	Determined Society Podcast \| Overcoming Adversity & Mindset	Society & Culture	299	Simplecast	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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