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 18 Aug 2026

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08/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 341

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:45:37

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. BBC World Service (4 shows)

3. Our Media (2 shows)

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

5. New Scientist (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. BBC (16 shows)

2. Megaphone (14 shows)

3. Simplecast (13 shows)

4. Acast (12 shows)

5. Libsyn (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	98	Megaphone	83
2	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	33	ART19	73
3	Change Your Mind with New Scientist	New Scientist	Science	24	Megaphone	48
4	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	536	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	537	Simplecast	63
6	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	241	BBC	38
7	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1139	Simplecast	62
8	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
9	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	631	Simplecast	48
10	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	675	Simplecast	63
11	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	168	BBC	38
12	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	674	BBC	38
13	The World, the Universe and Us	New Scientist	Science	473	Megaphone	53
14	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	41	Acast	94
15	Life Without	BBC Radio 4	Science	13	BBC	43
16	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	449	Libsyn	42
17	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
18	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	337	Acast	49
19	Outrage + Optimism	Persephonica and Global Optimism	Science	415	Acast	89
20	The BirdGuides Podcast	BirdGuides	Science	17	RSS.com	47
21	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	318	Megaphone	53
22	Scotland Outdoors	BBC Radio Scotland	Science	811	BBC	28
23	Natural Causes	Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Science	12	Omny Studio	69
24	Uncharted with Hannah Fry	BBC Radio 4	Science	22	BBC	28
25	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	514	Libsyn	48
26	Farming Today	BBC Radio 4	Science	25	BBC	38
27	The Incomplete Shambles Podcast	The Cosmic Shambles Network	Science & Medicine	129	Soundcloud	38
28	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	515	BBC	48
29	Rare Earth	BBC Radio 4	Science	71	BBC	28
30	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	308	Omny Studio	62
31	The Naked Scientists Podcast	The Naked Scientists	Science	1299	Acast	48
32	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	77	PRX	59
33	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	733	Libsyn	43
34	Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts	High Ash Farm	Science	160	Buzzsprout	48
35	Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith	Ben Goldsmith	Science	89	Buzzsprout	72
36	The Plodcast	Our Media	Science	699	Megaphone	63
37	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	479	ART19	69
38	The Life Scientific	BBC Radio 4	Science	359	BBC	38
39	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	125	Acast	59
40	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
41	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	349	Megaphone	69
42	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	64	Unknown	73
43	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	433	Libsyn	52
44	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	373	Transistor	73
45	The Knepp Wilding Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Knepp.co.uk	Science	52	Buzzsprout	37
46	Best Medicine	BBC Radio 4	Science	26	BBC	43
47	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1111	Libsyn	38
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	Overheard at National Geographic	National Geographic	Science	160	Megaphone	48
51	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	51	Podbean	62
52	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	858	BBC	28
53	A Question of Science	The Francis Crick Institute	Science	23	Omny Studio	79
54	Wild Tales \| Nature Podcast	National Trust	Science	209	Audioboom	47
55	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	621	Spreaker	54
56	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	855	Omny Studio	48
57	Climate Actually	Kimberly Nicholas	Science	3	Captivate	69
58	Meet the Farmers	Ben Eagle, RuralPod Media	Science	409	Simplecast	43
59	Are We Doomed?	NPR Network	Science	27	PRX	69
60	The We Society	AcSS	Science	93	Audioboom	79
61	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	501	Buzzsprout	42
62	A Life More Wild	Canopy & Stars	Science	75	Megaphone	53
63	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	268	Omny Studio	63
64	UFO Chronicles Podcast	Nik Hunter	Science	446	Spreaker	54
65	Unexpected Elements	BBC World Service	Science	348	BBC	38
66	Ask the Naked Scientists	Dr Chris Smith	Science	810	Acast	59
67	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
68	پادکست اتاق تراپی \| The Therapy Room	Ali Shahab	Science	24	Simplecast	58
69	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	245	Spotify for Podcasters	28
70	That's Absurd Please Elaborate	Trace Elements Media	Science	154	ART19	68
71	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1601	Unknown	48
72	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	356	PRX	53
73	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	372	PRX	53
74	That's Just Wild	Fresh Air	Science	102	Acast	84
75	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	389	Podbean	41
76	Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing	Merraki Media LLC	Science	8	Simplecast	52
77	Instant Genius	Our Media	Science	687	Megaphone	59
78	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
79	Terrible Lizards	Iszi Lawrence and David Hone	Science	142	Libsyn	78
80	Nature Podcast	Springer Nature Limited	Science	927	Acast	43
81	Beyond The Bird Table	British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)	Science	1	Spotify for Podcasters	42
82	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	284	Libsyn	42
83	Thames Unfiltered	The Standard	Science	6	Acast	79
84	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	368	Megaphone	53
85	Naturebang	BBC Radio 4	Science	41	BBC	33
86	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
87	Dr Karl Podcast	triplej	Science	478	ABC Australia	32
88	Great Mysteries of Physics	The Conversation	Science	7	Acast	63
89	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	110	Megaphone	69
90	This Natural Life	BBC Radio 4	Science	30	BBC	43
91	Let's Learn Everything!	Maximum Fun	Science	149	Simplecast	58
92	Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.	Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård	Science	100	Libsyn	32
93	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	52	Simplecast	62
94	Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries	Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley	Science	677	Spreaker	59
95	Paranormal Mysteries	Nic Ryan \| Paranormal Mysteries Podcast	Science	630	Spreaker	69
96	Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics	Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne	Science	120	Soundcloud	42
97	New Books in Psychoanalysis	Marshall Poe	Science	424	Simplecast	63
98	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	444	Megaphone	62
99	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	347	Simplecast	53
100	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1354	Megaphone	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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