Apple Podcast Rankings - Great Britain - Science

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 05 Oct 2026

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10/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 400

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:47:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. BBC World Service (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. Our Media (2 shows)

5. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (18 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. Libsyn (10 shows)

5. Acast (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	94	Megaphone	83
2	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	520	Spotify for Podcasters	28
3	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	166	BBC	38
4	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	40	Acast	94
5	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
6	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1135	Simplecast	62
7	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
8	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	672	BBC	38
9	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	673	Simplecast	63
10	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	535	Simplecast	63
11	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	31	ART19	73
12	The World, the Universe and Us	New Scientist	Science	471	Megaphone	53
13	A Question of Science	The Francis Crick Institute	Science	21	Omny Studio	79
14	Uncharted with Hannah Fry	BBC Radio 4	Science	22	BBC	28
15	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	628	Simplecast	48
16	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	513	BBC	48
17	Scotland Outdoors	BBC Radio Scotland	Science	807	BBC	28
18	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1109	Libsyn	38
19	The Naked Scientists Podcast	The Naked Scientists	Science	1294	Acast	48
20	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	52	Simplecast	62
21	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	510	Libsyn	48
22	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
23	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	126	Megaphone	58
24	Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts	High Ash Farm	Science	158	Buzzsprout	48
25	The Seán Chorus	HeadStuff Podcasts	Science	7	Megaphone	63
26	Change Your Mind with New Scientist	New Scientist	Science	22	Megaphone	58
27	Bite Back with Abbey Sharp	The Roost Podcast Network	Science	95	Megaphone	63
28	Life Without	BBC Radio 4	Science	11	BBC	39
29	The Life Scientific	BBC Radio 4	Science	356	BBC	38
30	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	446	Libsyn	42
31	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	347	Megaphone	69
32	Unexpected Elements	BBC World Service	Science	346	BBC	38
33	Farming Today	BBC Radio 4	Science	23	BBC	38
34	The Plodcast	Our Media	Science	694	Megaphone	63
35	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	429	Libsyn	52
36	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	313	Megaphone	53
37	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	729	Libsyn	43
38	Open Country	BBC Radio 4	Science	469	BBC	28
39	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1593	Unknown	48
40	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	305	Omny Studio	62
41	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	589	Spreaker	54
42	Dr Karl Podcast	triplej	Science	476	ABC Australia	32
43	Outrage + Optimism	Persephonica and Global Optimism	Science	413	Acast	89
44	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	850	Omny Studio	48
45	Tweet of the Day	BBC Radio 4	Science	736	BBC	28
46	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	76	PRX	59
47	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	386	Podbean	41
48	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	239	Spotify for Podcasters	28
49	Wild Tales \| Nature Podcast	National Trust	Science	207	Audioboom	47
50	Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith	Ben Goldsmith	Science	87	Buzzsprout	72
51	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	123	Acast	59
52	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
53	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	497	Buzzsprout	42
54	The Climate Question	BBC World Service	Science	317	BBC	38
55	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	368	Transistor	73
56	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	493	Audioboom	53
57	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1568	Simplecast	58
58	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	855	BBC	28
59	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
60	Stroud's Wild Valleys	Al Booth	Science	2	Acast	63
61	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	215	Megaphone	73
62	A Life More Wild	Canopy & Stars	Science	74	Megaphone	53
63	Ask the Naked Scientists	Dr Chris Smith	Science	808	Acast	59
64	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	283	Libsyn	42
65	Professor Brian Cox Live Q and A Podcast	The Cosmic Shambles Network	Science & Medicine	3	Soundcloud	32
66	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	743	Megaphone	63
67	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	365	Megaphone	53
68	Skeptics with a K	Skeptic Media Limited	Science	495	Libsyn	49
69	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	60	Spotify for Podcasters	68
70	Rare Earth	BBC Radio 4	Science	71	BBC	28
71	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	267	Omny Studio	63
72	Shirtloads of Science	Dr Karl Kruszelnicki	Science	478	Libsyn	48
73	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	376	ART19	42
74	Everything's Psychology	a Behaviour podcast	Science	43	Buzzsprout	72
75	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
76	Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast	Accidental Gods	Science	398	Transistor	68
77	The Artificial Human	BBC Radio 4	Science	51	BBC	43
78	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	442	Megaphone	62
79	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
80	Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries	Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley	Science	671	Spreaker	59
81	The BirdGuides Podcast	BirdGuides	Science	14	RSS.com	47
82	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
83	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
84	Overheard at National Geographic	National Geographic	Science	160	Megaphone	48
85	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	222	Simplecast	58
86	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	109	Megaphone	69
87	Instant Genius	Our Media	Science	683	Megaphone	59
88	Big Cat Conversations	Rick Minter	Science	144	Buzzsprout	48
89	UFO Chronicles Podcast	Nik Hunter	Science	438	Spreaker	54
90	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	336	Acast	49
91	New Books in Critical Theory	Marshall Poe	Science	600	Simplecast	63
92	Geology Bites	Oliver Strimpel	Science	128	Spotify for Podcasters	48
93	Terrible Lizards	Iszi Lawrence and David Hone	Science	141	Libsyn	78
94	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
95	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	88	ART19	52
96	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
97	The Systemic Way	Sezer and Julie	Science	110	Buzzsprout	69
98	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1344	Megaphone	58
99	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	148	Simplecast	58
100	Beyond The Bird Table	British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)	Science	1	Spotify for Podcasters	42

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.

For those interested in podcast creation, knowing the best hosting services and the most successful authors in your category can provide a competitive edge. Whether you're looking to start your own show or just want to see what's popular, this ranking offers a valuable snapshot of the podcasting world in Great Britain.
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