Apple Podcast Rankings - Great Britain - Society & Culture

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 21 Apr 2026

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04/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 337

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:47:05

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

2. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. Megaphone (22 shows)

3. BBC (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth	Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media	Society & Culture	272	Acast	53
3	Great Company with Jamie Laing	Jampot Productions	Society & Culture	181	Acast	58
4	The Louis Theroux Podcast	Spotify Studios	Society & Culture	73	Megaphone	48
5	We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson	WNTT	Society & Culture	169	Megaphone	58
6	Desert Island Discs	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
8	Radical	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	244	BBC	53
9	Modern Wisdom	Chris Williamson	Society & Culture	1149	Megaphone	58
10	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
11	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
12	Sort Your Life Out Unpacked	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	26	BBC	42
13	Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball	Persephonica	Society & Culture	129	Acast	63
14	Shameless	Shameless Media	Society & Culture	906	Megaphone	68
15	How To Fail With Elizabeth Day	Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	403	Megaphone	68
16	Anything Goes with James English	Anything Goes with James English	Society & Culture	592	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	Diabolical Lies	Katie Gatti Tassin & Caro Claire Burke	Society & Culture	100	Substack	43
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	Miss Me?	Persephonica	Society & Culture	259	Acast	53
20	This American Life	This American Life	Society & Culture	15	Simplecast	38
21	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	699	Megaphone	53
22	The Ezra Klein Show	New York Times Opinion	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	69
23	Olivia's House with Olivia Attwood	Platform Media	Society & Culture	89	Megaphone	42
24	Stuff You Should Know	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	2035	Omny Studio	43
25	The Affair…with Anna Williamson	The Affair…with Anna Williamson	Society & Culture	62	Acast	48
26	Full Disclosure with James O'Brien	Global	Society & Culture	348	Captivate	47
27	The Girls Bathroom	Sophia & Cinzia	Society & Culture	370	Acast	94
28	The Dozen with Liam Tuffs	The Dozen Media	Society & Culture	237	Spotify for Podcasters	27
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
30	Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel	Esther Perel Global Media	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	53
31	I'm ADHD! No You're Not	Dr Mine Conkbayir MBE & Paul Whitehouse	Society & Culture	63	Megaphone	53
32	If Books Could Kill	Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri	Society & Culture	79	Buzzsprout	38
33	Pottering with Tom Allen	Tom Allen	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	63
34	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
35	Khloé in Wonder Land	Khloé Kardashian	Society & Culture	54	ART19	63
36	Woman's Hour	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	43
37	The Audio Long Read	The Guardian	Society & Culture	300	Acast	38
38	On the tip of my tongue - talking about Aphasia	Jonathan Hirons and Rob Edwards	Society & Culture	37	Buzzsprout	68
39	The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant	Vox Media Podcast Network	Society & Culture	114	Megaphone	48
40	Natalie Cassidy's 'Life with Nat'	Audio Always	Society & Culture	268	Acast	63
41	Behind the Bastards	Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	1183	Omny Studio	59
42	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
43	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
44	Mad, Sad and Bad with Paloma Faith	JamPot Productions	Society & Culture	51	Acast	83
45	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	304	Megaphone	42
46	Vogue & Amber	Global	Society & Culture	517	Captivate	43
47	The Shawn Ryan Show	Shawn Ryan	Society & Culture	401	Megaphone	53
48	The Interview	The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
49	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	73
50	TED Talks Daily	TED	Society & Culture	2816	Acast	43
51	Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	38
52	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	441	Acast	74
53	Single Ladies In Your Area	Plosive	Society & Culture	74	Acast	63
54	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
55	He Said, She Said	Staying Relevant Productions	Society & Culture	98	Acast	69
56	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	225	Acast	43
57	Abroad in Japan	Stak	Society & Culture	723	Acast	54
58	Get A Grip with Angela Scanlon and Vicky Pattison	Audio Always	Society & Culture	123	Acast	73
59	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
60	The Mishal Husain Show	Bloomberg	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	63
61	Pete Wicks' Man Made	Bauer Media	Society & Culture	32	Sharpstream	63
62	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
63	Lush! with Joanna Page	Pixiu Podcasts	Society & Culture	66	Acast	59
64	Centre of the Universe	7FIFTY	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	53
65	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
66	Within Reason	Alex J O'Connor	Society & Culture	161	Spotify for Podcasters	28
67	Scamfluencers	Audible	Society & Culture	145	ART19	73
68	Nip Tuck	Bauer Media	Society & Culture	301	Sharpstream	48
69	Philosophize This!	Stephen West	Society & Culture	252	Megaphone	38
70	Life Changing	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	82	BBC	33
71	Private Parts	Spirit Studios	Society & Culture	1275	Acast	64
72	What Now? with Trevor Noah	Trevor Noah	Society & Culture	153	Simplecast	73
73	The Oprah Podcast	Harpo	Society & Culture	106	ART19	68
74	The Travel Diaries	Holly Rubenstein	Society & Culture	192	Acast	84
75	The Winston Marshall Show	Winston Marshall	Society & Culture	229	Spotify for Podcasters	38
76	Revisionist History	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	214	Omny Studio	69
77	Wednesdays	JamPot Productions	Society & Culture	304	Acast	63
78	The LRB Podcast	The London Review of Books	Society & Culture	480	Megaphone	53
79	Catching Up with the Royals	Spirit Studios	Society & Culture	22	Acast	63
80	The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos	Pushkin Industries	Society & Culture	275	Omny Studio	83
81	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
82	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	66	Spreaker	84
83	Radio Rental	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	Society & Culture	133	WideOrbit	48
84	Conversations With Candice	Candice Brathwaite	Society & Culture	21	Acast	83
85	Scary \| A Paranormal Podcast	Real-Life Paranormal Stories	Society & Culture	105	Acast	68
86	On with Kara Swisher	Vox Media	Society & Culture	430	Megaphone	63
87	Twenty Good Summers	Paulina Porizkova and Jeff Greenstein	Society & Culture	22	Squarespace	63
88	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
89	A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein	Matt Bernstein	Society & Culture	83	Megaphone	42
90	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
91	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
92	Intelligence Squared	Intelligence Squared	Society & Culture	1644	Megaphone	64
93	Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	268	Omny Studio	63
94	The Town with Matthew Belloni	The Ringer	Society & Culture	675	Megaphone	42
95	Unexplained	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	435	Omny Studio	43
96	Lives Less Ordinary	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	241	BBC	43
97	Critics at Large \| The New Yorker	The New Yorker	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	63
98	Origin Story	Podmasters	Society & Culture	127	Megaphone	94
99	Two Broke Chicks	Alex Hourigan and Sally McMullen	Society & Culture	417	Omny Studio	59
100	Planet Normal	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	324	Acast	48

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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