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 19 sept. 2026

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09/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 411

Frequency: every 15 days

Duration: 00:46:43

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. BBC World Service (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. New Scientist (2 shows)

5. Our Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Megaphone (17 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Simplecast (10 shows)

4. Libsyn (10 shows)

5. Acast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Rest Is Science	Goalhanger	Science	90	Megaphone	83
2	Science Weekly	The Guardian	Science	296	Acast	38
3	Change Your Mind with New Scientist	New Scientist	Science	20	Megaphone	58
4	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	506	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	BBC Inside Science	BBC Radio 4	Science	670	BBC	38
6	StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Science	1131	Simplecast	62
7	Ologies with Alie Ward	Alie Ward	Science	532	Simplecast	63
8	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	29	ART19	73
9	The Infinite Monkey Cage	BBC Radio 4	Science	247	BBC	39
10	Radiolab	WNYC Studios	Science	671	Simplecast	63
11	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	626	Simplecast	48
12	The World, the Universe and Us	New Scientist	Science	469	Megaphone	53
13	Get Birding	Peanut & Crumb	Science	39	Acast	94
14	The Seán Chorus	HeadStuff Podcasts	Science	5	Megaphone	63
15	A Life More Wild	Canopy & Stars	Science	74	Megaphone	53
16	Making Sense with Sam Harris	Sam Harris	Science	508	Libsyn	48
17	Curious Cases	BBC Radio 4	Science	176	BBC	43
18	Science Vs	Spotify Studios	Science	345	Megaphone	69
19	Life Without	BBC Radio 4	Science	11	BBC	39
20	Babbage from The Economist	The Economist	Science	11	Acast	63
21	The Plodcast	Our Media	Science	690	Megaphone	63
22	Farming Today	BBC Radio 4	Science	24	BBC	28
23	Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas	Sean Carroll	Science	444	Libsyn	42
24	The Naked Scientists Podcast	The Naked Scientists	Science	1290	Acast	48
25	Scotland Outdoors	BBC Radio Scotland	Science	803	BBC	28
26	Uncharted with Hannah Fry	BBC Radio 4	Science	22	BBC	28
27	Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe Details temporarily unavailable	iHeartPodcasts	Science	853	Omny Studio	48
28	The Life Scientific	BBC Radio 4	Science	356	BBC	38
29	This Podcast Will Kill You	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Science	303	Omny Studio	62
30	The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens	Nate Hagens	Science	427	Libsyn	52
31	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
32	Open Country	BBC Radio 4	Science	467	BBC	28
33	Unexplainable	Vox	Science	310	Megaphone	53
34	Wild Tales \| Nature Podcast	National Trust	Science	206	Audioboom	47
35	Rewilding the World with Ben Goldsmith	Ben Goldsmith	Science	86	Buzzsprout	72
36	Beyond The Bird Table	British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)	Science	1	Spotify for Podcasters	42
37	The Joy of Why	Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine	Science	75	PRX	59
38	Dr Karl Podcast	triplej	Science	250	ABC Australia	32
39	Astrum Space	Astrum	Science	234	Spotify for Podcasters	28
40	Sasquatch Chronicles	Sasquatch Chronicles - Bigfoot Encounters	Science	728	Libsyn	43
41	Google DeepMind: The Podcast	Hannah Fry	Science	51	Simplecast	62
42	CrowdScience	BBC World Service	Science	511	BBC	48
43	Outrage + Optimism	Persephonica and Global Optimism	Science	411	Acast	89
44	Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz	Dr. Mindy Pelz	Science	364	Transistor	73
45	The Supermassive Podcast	The Royal Astronomical Society	Science	122	Acast	59
46	DarkHorse Podcast	Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying	Science	493	Buzzsprout	42
47	Universe Today Podcast	Fraser Cain	Science	1585	Unknown	48
48	The BirdGuides Podcast	BirdGuides	Science	12	RSS.com	47
49	Sidenote by AsapSCIENCE	AsapSCIENCE	Science	334	Acast	49
50	The Knepp Wilding Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Knepp.co.uk	Science	52	Buzzsprout	37
51	A Question of Science	The Francis Crick Institute	Science	21	Omny Studio	79
52	Rare Earth	BBC Radio 4	Science	71	BBC	28
53	Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts	High Ash Farm	Science	156	Buzzsprout	48
54	Speaking of Psychology Details temporarily unavailable	American Psychological Association	Science	439	Libsyn	43
55	Best Medicine	BBC Radio 4	Science	26	BBC	43
56	Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast	David Puder, M.D.	Science	282	Libsyn	42
57	Coming of Age: The Science of Adolescence	Dr Lucy Foulkes and Dr Jack Andrews	Science	4	Spotify for Podcasters	17
58	From First Principles	Krishna Choudhary and Lester Nare	Science	57	Spotify for Podcasters	68
59	Bedtime Astronomy	Synthetic Universe	Science	559	Spreaker	64
60	Stuff To Blow Your Mind	iHeartPodcasts	Science	2000	Omny Studio	49
61	Skeptics with a K	Skeptic Media Limited	Science	493	Libsyn	49
62	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	737	Megaphone	63
63	Houston We Have a Podcast	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	440	Megaphone	62
64	Emonthebrain	Emily McDonald	Science	46	Podbean	62
65	Instant Genius	Our Media	Science	679	Megaphone	59
66	The Micah Hanks Program	Micah Hanks	Science	700	Libsyn	43
67	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1336	Megaphone	58
68	WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp	Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp	Science	124	Megaphone	58
69	Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks	Wes Larson, Jeff Larson, Mike Smith \| Daylight Media	Science	213	Megaphone	73
70	Discovery	BBC World Service	Science	853	BBC	28
71	Bigfoot Society	Jeremiah Byron	Science	1001	Spreaker	79
72	Overheard at National Geographic	National Geographic	Science	160	Megaphone	48
73	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe	Dr. Steven Novella	Science	1107	Libsyn	38
74	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
75	PsychCrunch	The British Psychological Society Research Digest	Science	50	Libsyn	48
76	Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast	Accidental Gods	Science	395	Transistor	68
77	UAP Unidentified Alien Podcast	Gamut Podcast Network	Science	373	ART19	42
78	The Quanta Podcast	Quanta Magazine	Science	365	PRX	53
79	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
80	Win-Win with Liv Boeree	Liv Boeree	Science	58	Spotify for Podcasters	28
81	Space Nuts: Astronomy Insights & Cosmic Discoveries	Professor Fred Watson and Andrew Dunkley	Science	669	Spreaker	59
82	The Common Descent Podcast	Common Descent	Science	384	Podbean	41
83	Short Wave	NPR	Science	1560	Simplecast	58
84	Unexpected Elements	BBC World Service	Science	344	BBC	38
85	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	345	Simplecast	53
86	Expanded Perspectives	Expanded Perspectives	Science	491	Audioboom	53
87	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
88	Phenomena Podcast: The Science & Stories of Energy Healing	Merraki Media LLC	Science	7	Simplecast	52
89	NASA's Curious Universe	National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)	Science	108	Megaphone	69
90	Ancient Aliens	PodcastOne	Science	86	ART19	52
91	SpaceTime with Stuart Gary	Stuart Gary	Science	1000	Spreaker	53
92	Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal	Theories of Everything	Science	363	Megaphone	53
93	Drilled	Pushkin Industries	Science	264	Omny Studio	63
94	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	353	PRX	53
95	Why This Universe?	Dan Hooper, Shalma Wegsman	Science	116	Buzzsprout	53
96	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	117	N/A	N/A
97	Podcast UFO	Producer: Donna Killeen	Science	982	Spreaker	53
98	Crash Course Pods: The Universe	Crash Course Pods, Complexly	Science	12	Simplecast	68
99	Science Friday	Science Friday and WNYC Studios	Science	1406	Simplecast	63
100	The Climate Question	BBC World Service	Science	315	BBC	38

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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