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 sept. 2026

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09/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 378

Frequency: every 22 days

Duration: 00:46:06

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. BBC World Service (3 shows)

3. Our Media (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. New Scientist (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (16 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. Acast (9 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	88	Megaphone	83
2	Change Your Mind with New Scientist	New Scientist	Science	19	Megaphone	48
3	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
4	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	500	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
6	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	38	Acast	94
7	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	28	ART19	73
8	StarTalk Radio	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1129	Simplecast	68
9	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	531	Simplecast	63
10	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	670	BBC	38
11	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	626	Simplecast	48
12	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	670	Simplecast	63
13	Life Without	BBC Radio 4	Science	11	BBC	39
14	The World, the Universe and Us	New Scientist	Science	466	Megaphone	53
15	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	176	BBC	43
16	Outrage + Optimism	Persephonica and Global Optimism	Science	410	Acast	89
17	Rare Earth	BBC Radio 4	Science	70	BBC	28
18	Uncharted with Hannah Fry	BBC Radio 4	Science	22	BBC	28
19	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	425	Libsyn	52
20	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
21	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	309	Megaphone	53
22	A Question of Science	The Francis Crick Institute	Science	21	Omny Studio	79
23	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	507	Libsyn	48
24	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	344	Megaphone	69
25	The Plodcast	Our Media	Science	689	Megaphone	63
26	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	444	Libsyn	42
27	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	122	Acast	59
28	Coming of Age: The Science of Adolescence	Dr Lucy Foulkes and Dr Jack Andrews	Science	3	Spotify for Podcasters	17
29	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
30	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	123	Megaphone	58
31	The Seán Chorus	HeadStuff Podcasts	Science	4	Megaphone	63
32	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	74	PRX	59
33	Farming Today	BBC Radio 4	Science	25	BBC	28
34	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
35	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	333	Acast	49
36	Overheard at National Geographic	National Geographic	Science	160	Megaphone	48
37	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	844	Omny Studio	48
38	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1557	Simplecast	58
39	The Knepp Wilding Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Knepp.co.uk	Science	52	Buzzsprout	37
40	The Naked Scientists Podcast	The Naked Scientists	Science	1288	Acast	48
41	Cool Worlds Podcast	coolworldslab	Science	35	Podbean	37
42	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
43	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	510	BBC	48
44	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	51	Simplecast	62
45	The Climate Question	BBC World Service	Science	314	BBC	38
46	Best Medicine	BBC Radio 4	Science	26	BBC	43
47	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	302	Omny Studio	62
48	Scotland Outdoors	BBC Radio Scotland	Science	801	BBC	28
49	Open Country	BBC Radio 4	Science	466	BBC	28
50	Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith	Ben Goldsmith	Science	86	Buzzsprout	72
51	The We Society	AcSS	Science	93	Audioboom	79
52	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	545	Spreaker	64
53	Natural Causes	Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Science	7	Omny Studio	69
54	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	492	Buzzsprout	42
55	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	727	Libsyn	43
56	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	108	Megaphone	69
57	Beyond The Bird Table	British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)	Science	1	Spotify for Podcasters	42
58	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1581	Unknown	48
59	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	281	Libsyn	42
60	The BirdGuides Podcast	BirdGuides	Science	11	RSS.com	47
61	Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts	High Ash Farm	Science	155	Buzzsprout	48
62	The Life Scientific	BBC Radio 4	Science	356	BBC	38
63	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	853	BBC	28
64	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	57	Spotify for Podcasters	68
65	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	232	Spotify for Podcasters	28
66	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	926	Acast	43
67	The Science of Everything Podcast	James Fodor	Science	172	Podbean	31
68	A Life More Wild	Canopy & Stars	Science	73	Megaphone	53
69	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	363	Transistor	73
70	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
71	Wild Tales \| Nature Podcast	National Trust	Science	205	Audioboom	47
72	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	598	ART19	42
73	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	219	Simplecast	58
74	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	116	Buzzsprout	53
75	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	262	Omny Studio	63
76	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	625	Spreaker	69
77	Instant Genius	Our Media	Science	677	Megaphone	59
78	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	46	Podbean	62
79	Dr Karl Podcast	triplej	Science	250	ABC Australia	32
80	Naturebang	BBC Radio 4	Science	41	BBC	33
81	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	733	Megaphone	63
82	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	363	Megaphone	53
83	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
84	Meet the Farmers	Ben Eagle, RuralPod Media	Science	405	Simplecast	43
85	Economics In Ten	Economics In Ten	Science	71	Spotify for Podcasters	38
86	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	466	Megaphone	63
87	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	213	Megaphone	73
88	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	352	PRX	53
89	Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science	The Planetary Society	Science	1359	Omny Studio	38
90	Skeptics with a K	Skeptic Media Limited	Science	492	Libsyn	49
91	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
92	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	384	Podbean	41
93	Beastly History	Wild Beast	Science	7	Acast	74
94	Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries	Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley	Science	667	Spreaker	59
95	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1402	Simplecast	63
96	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1188	Spreaker	53
97	Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast	Accidental Gods	Science	394	Transistor	68
98	Sustainable(ish)	Jen Gale	Science	217	Unknown	48
99	Big Cat Conversations	Rick Minter	Science	143	Buzzsprout	48
100	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	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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