Apple Podcast Rankings - Great Britain - Social Sciences

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 09 Sep 2026

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09/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 261

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:47:54

Top 5 authors

1. New Books Network (4 shows)

2. The Thoughful Counselor Team (1 shows)

3. PPR Autonomie (1 shows)

4. Paul Chadwick and Tiago Moutela (1 shows)

5. Zachary Elwood (1 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Libsyn (16 shows)

2. Buzzsprout (14 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (13 shows)

4. Megaphone (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Hidden Brain	Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam	Science	626	Simplecast	48
2	Boring History for Sleep	Velvet	Science	500	Spotify for Podcasters	28
3	Suspicious Minds: AI and the Apocalypse	Agoric Media	Science	28	ART19	73
4	That UFO Podcast	That UFO Podcast	Science	500	Audioboom	48
5	The Psychology Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Science	478	Omny Studio	38
6	Choiceology with Katy Milkman Details temporarily unavailable	Charles Schwab	Social Sciences	117	N/A	N/A
7	Psychology, Actually	Dr Marianne Trent	Science	257	Captivate	79
8	You Are Not So Smart	You Are Not So Smart	Science	345	Simplecast	53
9	The We Society	AcSS	Science	93	Audioboom	79
10	Somewhere in the Skies	SpectreVision Radio	Science	733	Megaphone	63
11	Therapist Uncensored Podcast	Sue Marriott LCSW, CGP & Ann Kelley PhD	Science	309	Blubrry	33
12	Stanford Psychology Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Stanford Psychology	Science	181	Buzzsprout	42
13	The Science of Happiness	PRX and Greater Good Science Center	Science	352	PRX	53
14	Economics In Ten	Economics In Ten	Science	71	Spotify for Podcasters	38
15	Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind	Podimo & TellTale	Science	42	Audioboom	N/A
16	Something You Should Know	Mike Carruthers \| OmniCast Media	Science	1333	Megaphone	58
17	The Systemic Way	Sezer and Julie	Science	108	Buzzsprout	69
18	Skeptoid	Brian Dunning	Science	1091	PRX	63
19	The Counselling Psychology Lens	Mary	Science	16	Spotify for Podcasters	42
20	New Books in Critical Theory	Marshall Poe	Science	2014	Megaphone	59
21	The Sociology Show	Matthew Wilkin	Science	213	Spreaker	43
22	People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast	Zachary Elwood	Science	219	Simplecast	58
23	Mysterious Universe	8th Kind	Science	20	Megaphone	79
24	Talks On Psychoanalysis	International Psychoanalytical Association	Science	100	Podbean	58
25	PsychCrunch	The British Psychological Society Research Digest	Science	50	Libsyn	48
26	Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg	Spencer Greenberg	Science	324	Unknown	48
27	The Forensic Update Podcast	The British Psychological Society	Science	9	Libsyn	37
28	SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human	SAPIENS	Science	92	PRX	78
29	King's of Curiosity with Gillian Tett	King's College Cambridge	Science	7	Libsyn	52
30	Sage Sociology	Sage Publications	Science	100	Libsyn	38
31	The Coaching UnpACT Podcast	Rachael Skews and Hazel Anderson Turner	Science	27	Substack	37
32	Let's Talk Forensic Psychology	Let's Talk Forensic Psychology	Science	53	Spotify for Podcasters	22
33	Divergent Minds	Keren MacLennan	Science	10	Acast	89
34	New Books in Political Science	New Books Network	Science	600	Simplecast	63
35	Probation Perspectives: Insights into Community Justice	Community Justice Learning	Science	14	Spotify for Podcasters	58
36	Opinion Science	Andy Luttrell	Science	169	Buzzsprout	58
37	Quantitude	Greg Hancock & Patrick Curran	Science	198	Buzzsprout	78
38	The Perception & Action Podcast	Rob Gray	Science	593	Libsyn	37
39	Mysterious Radio: Paranormal, UFO & Lore Interviews	Mysterious Radio	Science	20	Captivate	48
40	Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function	Sucheta Kamath	Science	210	Buzzsprout	68
41	Ja ihminen loi älyn – Aalto-yliopiston tekoälypodcast	Aalto-yliopisto	Science	4	Unknown	42
42	The Thoughtful Counselor	The Thoughful Counselor Team	Science	320	Libsyn	38
43	Ideas in Development	Ideas in Development	Science	32	Audioboom	32
44	MissPerceived	Audiocrafty	Science	122	Acast	69
45	AEA Research Highlights	American Economic Association	Science	100	Libsyn	58
46	Risk InSight	Society for Risk Analysis	Science	51	Libsyn	43
47	The B-Word	James Healy	Science	22	Libsyn	53
48	Penser l’avenir du secteur du handicap et du grand âge : un échange avec la recherche européenne	PPR Autonomie	Science	8	podCloud	73
49	The Sociology of Everything Podcast	Eric Hsu & Louis Everuss (Lou & the Hsu)	Science	41	Buzzsprout	57
50	GraveYard Tales	Adam Ballinger & Matt Rudolph	Science	379	Audioboom	63
51	'Mind the Kids': an ACAMH podcast	The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health	Science	422	Audioboom	38
52	Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.	Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård	Science	100	Libsyn	32
53	The Coaching Psychology Update	Division of Coaching	Science	37	Libsyn	42
54	The Couples Therapist Couch	Shane Birkel	Science	300	Libsyn	52
55	Everything's Psychology	a Behaviour podcast	Science	43	Buzzsprout	72
56	The Death Studies Podcast	The Death Studies Podcast	Science	68	Spotify for Podcasters	27
57	Social Work Sorted with Vicki Shevlin	Vicki Shevlin	Science	171	Buzzsprout	48
58	Messy Social Work	Rich and Tim	Science	120	Buzzsprout	48
59	The Bulletproof Musician	Noa Kageyama	Science	417	Buzzsprout	48
60	NEU DENKEN	Mission Wertvoll	Science	41	Podigee	79
61	Thresholds of Consciousness: Mind, Mysticism & Culture	Dr. Scott Menasco	Science	8	Spotify for Podcasters	27
62	Talking Child Development	ccfdau	Science	40	Podbean	42
63	The Futureverse	Intelligence Squared	Science	20	Megaphone	53
64	miłosz brzeziński	miłosz brzeziński	Science	29	Spreaker	49
65	Think.Fight.Learn.Repeat.	Fight Club International	Science	18	Spotify for Podcasters	22
66	Core Insights: Behavioural Science	Warwick Business School	Science	12	Buzzsprout	62
67	Changing Climate, Changing Migration	Migration Policy Institute	Science	55	Podbean	52
68	Juridisk metode i forskellige job	University of Southern Denmark	Science	13	Captivate	38
69	Beyond the Couch: AI in Psychology	Ernest Wayde	Science	26	Captivate	68
70	A level psychology with fleur	Fleur	Science	2	Spotify for Podcasters	48
71	Staying Sane with Natasha Devon	11-29 Media	Science	21	Spreaker	38
72	Les écorruptibles	éconoclaste - L'économie pour les nuls et les autres. Depuis 1999.	Science	13	Spotify for Podcasters	33
73	The International Security Podcast	International Security	Science	28	Simplecast	58
74	Real World Behavioural Science	Paul Chadwick and Tiago Moutela	Science	46	Buzzsprout	53
75	Pursuit of the Paranormal	Ash and Greg	Science	314	RSS.com	32
76	MBT EN – Understanding Mentalization-Based Treatment	Jasper Manders	Science	45	Spotify for Podcasters	52
77	New Books in Sociology	New Books Network	Science	3750	Megaphone	59
78	The Social-Engineer Podcast	Social-Engineer, LLC	Science	200	Libsyn	57
79	Social Work Radio	Social Work Radio	Science	156	Podbean	48
80	Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast)	Dave Pietraszewski & David Pinsof	Science	62	Podbean	31
81	Two Psychologists Four Beers	Yoel Inbar, Michael Inzlicht, and Alexa Tullett	Science	134	Fireside	48
82	The Alcohol 'Problem' Podcast with Dr James Morris	James Morris	Science	33	Buzzsprout	62
83	Podcast de Juan Ramón Rallo	Juan Ramón Rallo	Science	2252	Acast	28
84	Anthropology on Air	Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen	Science	25	Simplecast	58
85	The Second Cold War Observatory	Jessica DiCarlo and Seth Schindler	Science	21	Simplecast	63
86	The Nordic Asia Podcast	NIAS and its academic partners	Science	285	Simplecast	58
87	Global Media & Communication	New Books Network	Science	16	Megaphone	63
88	Prison Breakdown	Professors Beck Strah & Eric Bronson	Science	95	RedCircle	49
89	Couched	Dr. Almas (Ally) Merchant, Dr. Billie Pivnick & Dr. Romy Reading, Produced by Hangar Studios, NYC	Science	28	Acast	73
90	Never a straight answer	Never a straight answer	Science	332	Spotify for Podcasters	33
91	洪晃\|晃然大悟	洪晃\|晃然大悟	Science	213	lizhi.fm	38
92	Heritage Türkiye	Işılay Gürsu, Peter Cherry	Science	29	Libsyn	58
93	The Community Psychologist Podcast	The Community Psychologist Editor	Science	8	Spotify for Podcasters	22
94	Urban Limitrophe	Alexandra Lambropoulos	Science	36	RedCircle	89
95	Taboo Science	Ashley Hamer Pritchard	Science	72	Spreaker	69
96	Statistics Made Simple Feed not publicly shared by the creator	Brad R. Fulton, PhD	Social Sciences	26	N/A	N/A
97	Navigating Neuropsychology	John Bellone & Ryan Van Patten - NavNeuro	Science	198	Libsyn	48
98	The Science of Personality Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Hogan Assessments	Science	186	Buzzsprout	27
99	Templeton Ideas Podcast	John Templeton Foundation	Science	87	Libsyn	72
100	New Books in Public Policy	New Books Network	Science	2147	Megaphone	53

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.

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