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 Oct 2026

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10/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 396

Frequency: every 16 days

Duration: 00:44:14

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. BBC World Service (4 shows)

3. Our Media (3 shows)

4. New Scientist (2 shows)

5. Theories of Everything (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (17 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Simplecast (11 shows)

4. Acast (9 shows)

5. Libsyn (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	98	Megaphone	83
2	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	168	BBC	38
3	Uncharted with Hannah Fry	BBC Radio 4	Science	22	BBC	28
4	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	241	BBC	38
5	A Question of Science	The Francis Crick Institute	Science	23	Omny Studio	79
6	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	534	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Life Without	BBC Radio 4	Science	13	BBC	43
8	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1138	Simplecast	62
9	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	675	Simplecast	63
10	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	41	Acast	94
11	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	630	Simplecast	48
12	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	674	BBC	38
13	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	33	ART19	73
14	Bite Back with Abbey Sharp	The Roost Podcast Network	Science	96	Megaphone	63
15	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	537	Simplecast	63
16	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
17	The World, the Universe and Us	New Scientist	Science	473	Megaphone	53
18	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
19	The Seán Chorus	HeadStuff Podcasts	Science	9	Megaphone	53
20	Change Your Mind with New Scientist	New Scientist	Science	24	Megaphone	48
21	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	52	Simplecast	62
22	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	515	BBC	48
23	The Life Scientific	BBC Radio 4	Science	358	BBC	38
24	The Plodcast	Our Media	Science	698	Megaphone	63
25	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	349	Megaphone	69
26	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	77	PRX	59
27	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	513	Libsyn	48
28	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
29	Scotland Outdoors	BBC Radio Scotland	Science	811	BBC	28
30	The Naked Scientists Podcast	The Naked Scientists	Science	1298	Acast	48
31	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	433	Libsyn	52
32	Farming Today	BBC Radio 4	Science	26	BBC	38
33	Atomic Adventures	Jess Sharpe	Science	22	Podbean	42
34	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	448	Libsyn	42
35	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	317	Megaphone	53
36	A Life More Wild	Canopy & Stars	Science	75	Megaphone	53
37	Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts	High Ash Farm	Science	160	Buzzsprout	48
38	Outrage + Optimism	Persephonica and Global Optimism	Science	415	Acast	89
39	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	733	Libsyn	43
40	Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg	Spencer Greenberg	Science	326	Unknown	48
41	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	124	Acast	59
42	Unexpected Elements	BBC World Service	Science	348	BBC	38
43	The Knepp Wilding Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Knepp.co.uk	Science	52	Buzzsprout	37
44	The House of Pod	Kaveh MD	Science	301	Acast	43
45	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	307	Omny Studio	62
46	The BirdGuides Podcast	BirdGuides	Science	17	RSS.com	47
47	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	372	Transistor	73
48	Open Country	BBC Radio 4	Science	469	BBC	28
49	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	64	Spotify for Podcasters	68
50	Wild Tales \| Nature Podcast	National Trust	Science	209	Audioboom	47
51	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe	iHeartPodcasts	Science	854	Omny Studio	48
52	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	367	Megaphone	53
53	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	444	Megaphone	62
54	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1111	Libsyn	38
55	The Climate Question	BBC World Service	Science	319	BBC	38
56	Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith	Ben Goldsmith	Science	88	Buzzsprout	72
57	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
58	Wild Lives	Our Media	Science	16	Megaphone	73
59	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1576	Simplecast	58
60	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	617	Spreaker	54
61	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1600	Unknown	48
62	Overheard at National Geographic	National Geographic	Science	160	Megaphone	48
63	The Numberphile Podcast	Brady Haran	Science & Medicine	66	Squarespace	48
64	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	268	Omny Studio	63
65	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
66	Dr Karl Podcast	triplej	Science	478	ABC Australia	32
67	Okay, But... Birds	Dr. Scott Taylor	Science	45	Unknown	89
68	That's Just Wild	Fresh Air	Science	102	Acast	84
69	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	224	Simplecast	58
70	Instant Genius	Our Media	Science	687	Megaphone	59
71	Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast	Accidental Gods	Science	400	Transistor	68
72	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1427	Simplecast	63
73	Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries	Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley	Science	677	Spreaker	59
74	Outdoors with Yorkshire Wildlife Trust	Yorkshire Wildlife Trust	Science	2	Buzzsprout	47
75	Skeptics with a K	Skeptic Media Limited	Science	497	Libsyn	49
76	Human Potential Lab	Scott Barry Kaufman	Science	479	ART19	69
77	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	389	Podbean	41
78	Ask the Naked Scientists	Dr Chris Smith	Science	810	Acast	59
79	Medical Mentor	Medscape	Science	33	Simplecast	48
80	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	216	Megaphone	73
81	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
82	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	244	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1000	Spreaker	79
84	Biotech Hangout	Daphne Zohar, Josh Schimmer, Brad Loncar, Tim Opler and more	Science	168	Spotify for Podcasters	38
85	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	371	PRX	53
86	Rare Earth	BBC Radio 4	Science	71	BBC	28
87	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	748	Megaphone	63
88	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	119	N/A	N/A
89	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	90	ART19	52
90	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	284	Libsyn	42
91	In Defense of Plants Podcast	In Defense of Plants	Science	603	ART19	42
92	Science Quickly	Scientific American	Science	1982	Megaphone	38
93	PsychCrunch	The British Psychological Society Research Digest	Science	50	Libsyn	48
94	Everything's Psychology	a Behaviour podcast	Science	43	Buzzsprout	72
95	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
96	Real Ghost Stories Online	Real Ghost Stories Online \| Paranormal, Supernatural & Horror Radio	Science	500	Audioboom	48
97	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	347	Simplecast	53
98	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
99	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	857	BBC	28
100	Physics World Weekly Podcast	Physics World	Science	100	Blubrry	43

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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