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 15 Oct 2026

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10/15/2026

Average data

Episodes: 397

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:47:20

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. BBC World Service (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. Our Media (2 shows)

5. New Scientist (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. BBC (15 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Libsyn (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. Acast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	98	Megaphone	83
2	A Question of Science	The Francis Crick Institute	Science	23	Omny Studio	79
3	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	168	BBC	38
4	Uncharted with Hannah Fry	BBC Radio 4	Science	22	BBC	28
5	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	241	BBC	38
6	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	535	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	631	Simplecast	48
8	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1138	Simplecast	62
9	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	537	Simplecast	63
10	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
11	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	675	Simplecast	63
12	The Life Scientific	BBC Radio 4	Science	358	BBC	38
13	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	41	Acast	94
14	Bite Back with Abbey Sharp	The Roost Podcast Network	Science	96	Megaphone	63
15	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	33	ART19	73
16	Change Your Mind with New Scientist	New Scientist	Science	24	Megaphone	48
17	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	674	BBC	38
18	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	513	Libsyn	48
19	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	449	Libsyn	42
20	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
21	Life Without	BBC Radio 4	Science	13	BBC	43
22	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	52	Simplecast	62
23	The World, the Universe and Us	New Scientist	Science	473	Megaphone	53
24	The Seán Chorus	HeadStuff Podcasts	Science	9	Megaphone	53
25	Farming Today	BBC Radio 4	Science	24	BBC	38
26	The Plodcast	Our Media	Science	699	Megaphone	63
27	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	307	Omny Studio	62
28	Scotland Outdoors	BBC Radio Scotland	Science	811	BBC	28
29	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	318	Megaphone	53
30	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	515	BBC	48
31	The Naked Scientists Podcast	The Naked Scientists	Science	1298	Acast	48
32	Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts	High Ash Farm	Science	160	Buzzsprout	48
33	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	349	Megaphone	69
34	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	733	Libsyn	43
35	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	373	Transistor	73
36	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	125	Acast	59
37	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	77	PRX	59
38	The BirdGuides Podcast	BirdGuides	Science	17	RSS.com	47
39	Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg	Spencer Greenberg	Science	326	Unknown	48
40	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	433	Libsyn	52
41	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1111	Libsyn	38
42	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	64	Spotify for Podcasters	68
43	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	854	Omny Studio	48
44	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	619	Spreaker	54
45	Outrage + Optimism	Persephonica and Global Optimism	Science	415	Acast	89
46	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	117	Buzzsprout	53
47	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	858	BBC	28
48	The Climate Question	BBC World Service	Science	319	BBC	38
49	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	217	Megaphone	73
50	Wild Tales \| Nature Podcast	National Trust	Science	209	Audioboom	47
51	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	284	Libsyn	42
52	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	371	PRX	53
53	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	368	Megaphone	53
54	Meet the Farmers	Ben Eagle, RuralPod Media	Science	409	Simplecast	43
55	A Life More Wild	Canopy & Stars	Science	75	Megaphone	53
56	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1577	Simplecast	58
57	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	109	Megaphone	69
58	The Micah Hanks Program	Micah Hanks	Science	704	Libsyn	43
59	Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast	Accidental Gods	Science	400	Transistor	68
60	Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries	Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley	Science	677	Spreaker	59
61	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
62	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
63	Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith	Ben Goldsmith	Science	88	Buzzsprout	72
64	Instant Genius	Our Media	Science	687	Megaphone	59
65	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	245	Spotify for Podcasters	28
66	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
67	Open Country	BBC Radio 4	Science	469	BBC	28
68	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
69	Unapologetic Mathematicians	Hope Duncan	Science	2	RSS.com	37
70	The End Of The World with Josh Clark	iHeartPodcasts	Science	13	Omny Studio	63
71	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	749	Megaphone	63
72	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
73	Why? with Emma Kennedy	Podmasters	Science	75	Acast	89
74	Beyond The Bird Table	British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)	Science	1	Spotify for Podcasters	42
75	PsychCrunch	The British Psychological Society Research Digest	Science	50	Libsyn	48
76	The Systemic Way	Sezer and Julie	Science	111	Buzzsprout	69
77	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
78	The Knepp Wilding Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Knepp.co.uk	Science	52	Buzzsprout	37
79	Dr Karl Podcast	triplej	Science	478	ABC Australia	32
80	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	603	ART19	42
81	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	500	Buzzsprout	42
82	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	389	Podbean	41
83	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	126	Megaphone	58
84	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	27	PRX	69
85	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	347	Simplecast	53
86	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	630	Spreaker	69
87	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1428	Simplecast	63
88	The House of Pod	Kaveh MD	Science	301	Acast	43
89	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	479	ART19	69
90	Unexpected Elements	BBC World Service	Science	348	BBC	38
91	Naturebang	BBC Radio 4	Science	41	BBC	33
92	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	149	Simplecast	58
93	Everything's Psychology	a Behaviour podcast	Science	43	Buzzsprout	72
94	Terrible Lizards	Iszi Lawrence and David Hone	Science	142	Libsyn	78
95	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1600	Unknown	48
96	Astronomy Cast	Fraser Cain and Dr. Pamela Gay	Science	571	Libsyn	68
97	The Artificial Human	BBC Radio 4	Science	53	BBC	43
98	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	30	Libsyn	53
99	Cool Worlds Podcast	coolworldslab	Science	36	Podbean	37
100	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49

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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