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 16 Jul 2025

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07/16/2025

Average data

Episodes: 429

Frequency: every 10 days

Duration: 00:45:41

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. BBC World Service (5 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. Our Media (2 shows)

5. New Scientist (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. BBC (16 shows)

2. Megaphone (15 shows)

3. Acast (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (10 shows)

5. Libsyn (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	242	BBC	38
2	More or Less	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	1151	BBC	28
3	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	169	BBC	38
4	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	632	Simplecast	48
5	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
6	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1141	Simplecast	62
7	Uncharted with Hannah Fry	BBC Radio 4	Science	22	BBC	28
8	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	538	Simplecast	63
9	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	676	Simplecast	63
10	The Life Scientific	BBC Radio 4	Science	360	BBC	38
11	The World, the Universe and Us	New Scientist	Science	475	Megaphone	53
12	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	675	BBC	38
13	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	514	Libsyn	48
14	That's Just Wild	Fresh Air	Science	102	Acast	84
15	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	52	Simplecast	62
16	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	376	Transistor	73
17	The Plodcast	Our Media	Science	701	Megaphone	63
18	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	545	Spotify for Podcasters	28
19	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
20	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	450	Libsyn	42
21	The Naked Scientists Podcast	The Naked Scientists	Science	1301	Acast	48
22	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	859	BBC	28
23	New Scientist Weekly	New Scientist	Science	63	Acast	73
24	The Climate Question	BBC World Service	Science	320	BBC	38
25	Scotland Outdoors	BBC Radio Scotland	Science	814	BBC	28
26	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	125	Acast	59
27	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	127	Megaphone	58
28	Making Science with Tom Whipple	The Times	Science	12	Acast	48
29	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	516	BBC	48
30	Need To Know	Bryce Zabel	Science	83	Megaphone	69
31	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	482	ART19	69
32	Outrage + Optimism	Persephonica and Global Optimism	Science	416	Acast	89
33	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	732	Libsyn	43
34	Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith	Ben Goldsmith	Science	90	Buzzsprout	72
35	Overheard at National Geographic	National Geographic	Science	160	Megaphone	48
36	Science In Action	BBC World Service	Science	335	BBC	43
37	Instant Genius	Our Media	Science	689	Megaphone	59
38	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
39	When Science Finds a Way	Wellcome	Science	40	Libsyn	89
40	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	309	Omny Studio	62
41	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	350	Megaphone	69
42	New Books in Critical Theory	Marshall Poe	Science	600	Simplecast	63
43	Farming Today	BBC Radio 4	Science	26	BBC	38
44	A Life More Wild	Canopy & Stars	Science	75	Megaphone	53
45	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	321	Megaphone	53
46	Why Do We Do That?	BBC Radio 4	Science	36	BBC	59
47	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	268	Omny Studio	63
48	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	369	Megaphone	53
49	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
50	Rare Earth	BBC Radio 4	Science	71	BBC	28
51	All In The Mind	ABC Australia	Health & Fitness	1045	ABC Australia	43
52	Blurry Creatures	Blurry Creatures	Science	480	Megaphone	63
53	Why? with Emma Kennedy	Podmasters	Science	75	Acast	89
54	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1112	Libsyn	38
55	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
56	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	437	Libsyn	52
57	The We Society with Will Hutton	Academy of Social Sciences	Science	95	Audioboom	73
58	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	382	ART19	42
59	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
60	The Science of Birds	Ivan Phillipsen	Science	160	Buzzsprout	53
61	The Michael Shermer Show	Michael Shermer	Science	645	Libsyn	58
62	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	374	PRX	53
63	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	857	Omny Studio	48
64	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	218	Megaphone	73
65	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	752	Megaphone	63
66	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	117	Buzzsprout	53
67	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
68	Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast	Accidental Gods	Science	402	Transistor	68
69	Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts	High Ash Farm	Science	161	Buzzsprout	48
70	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	91	ART19	52
71	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	445	Megaphone	62
72	So Cultured Podcast	Liv Grant & Taz Shipley	Science	57	Acast	83
73	Wild Tales \| Nature Podcast	National Trust	Science	209	Audioboom	47
74	This Natural Life	BBC Radio 4	Science	30	BBC	43
75	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
76	Great Mysteries of Physics	The Conversation	Science	7	Acast	63
77	Unexpected Elements	BBC World Service	Science	349	BBC	38
78	The Astrophysics Podcast	Paul Duffell	Science	32	RSS.com	47
79	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
80	The Knepp Wilding Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Knepp.co.uk	Science	52	Buzzsprout	37
81	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	285	Libsyn	42
82	SciShow Tangents	Complexly	Science	338	Simplecast	73
83	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1604	Unknown	48
84	ScienceStuff	iHeartPodcasts	Science	68	Omny Studio	53
85	UFO Chronicles Podcast	Nik Hunter	Science	450	Spreaker	54
86	The Wandering Ecologist Podcast	Penny Green	Science	13	Buzzsprout	51
87	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
88	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
89	Podcast UFO	Producer: Donna Killeen	Science	993	Spreaker	53
90	David A. Hughes	Resisting the Global Technocratic Coup One Person at a Time	Science	150	Substack	43
91	Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman	iHeartPodcasts	Science	191	Omny Studio	48
92	The Casual Birder Podcast	Suzy Buttress	Science	149	Libsyn	48
93	Ask the Naked Scientists	Dr Chris Smith	Science	811	Acast	59
94	'Mind the Kids': an ACAMH podcast	The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health	Science	429	Audioboom	38
95	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1099	PRX	63
96	Paranormal Portal	Paranormal Portal - Ufo's Paranormal Ghosts	Science	491	Spreaker	69
97	Mythfits	Pionaire Podcasting	Science	81	Audioboom	59
98	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	604	ART19	42
99	Science Fictions	Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie	Science	144	Substack	53
100	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1583	Simplecast	58

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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