80 Best UK Book Podcasts

1. Backlisted

The literary podcast Is presented by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller. Brought to you by Unbound.
Podcast backlisted.fm
Producer/Network Backlisted
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 2.1KTwitter Followers 20.7K Frequency 3 episodes/month Avg Length 68 min Since Nov 2015 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. Underwood and Flinch and Other Audiobooks by Mike Bennett

Underwood and Flinch is a three-time Parsec award-winning vampire audiobook saga by Mike Bennett. 'If you think vampire tales are a worn-out genre, Underwood and Flinch will shock and delight you.' Walt Kolenda, Examiner.comFor hundreds of years, the eldest-born male of each generation of the Flinch family has been servant and guardian to the vampire, Lord Underwood.While the Flinches have changed through the generations, Underwood has remained eternal. David Flinch had hoped to be spared the horror of serving his family's lord and master, but when he is summoned to the Flinch home in Spain by his dying older brother, he knows his luck has run out.After fifty years of slumber, Underwood is to be resurrected from the grave in a ritual of human sacrifice, and David, by right of succession, is to be his resurrector. But there is another Flinch, one who craves the role of guardian to the vampire: David's sister, Lydia.
Podcast spreaker.com
Producer/Network Mike Bennett
Email ****@yahoo.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 2.9KTwitter Followers 2K Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 39 min Since Dec 2008 Listen on Apple Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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3. Books and Authors

This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. Open Book talks to authors about their work. In A Good Read Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite books.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Harriett Gilbert
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.3 / 5Facebook Followers 5.7MTwitter Followers 2.4M Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 29 min Since Nov 2014 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

4. World Book Club

The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Harriett Gilbert
Producer/Network BBC World Service
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3MTwitter Followers 563.6KInstagram Followers 448.6K Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 46 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

5. New Books in British Studies

Interviews with Scholars of Britain about their New Books. The New Books Network is a consortium of author-interview podcast channels dedicated to raising the level of public discourse by introducing scholars and other serious writers to a wide public via new media.
Podcast newbooksnetwork.com
Producer/Network Marshall Poe
Email ****@newbooksnetwork.com
Apple Rating 3.5 / 5Facebook Followers 7.3KTwitter Followers 17.3K Frequency 4 episodes/week Avg Length 55 min Since Jan 2012 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

6. Bookclub

Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Producer/Network BBC Radio 4
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.3 / 5Facebook Followers 61.1MTwitter Followers 15.4M Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 28 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

7. Read On - The Audiobook Show from RNIB

A weekly show all about audiobooks recorded at the RNIB Talking Book studios. We talk to your favorite authors and narrators, along with reviews and news about new audiobooks. Presented and produced by Robert Kirkwood, you'll find a new episode here every Friday at 1pm plus bonus content such as longer uncut interviews and episodes of our occasional extra show, The Book Group.
Podcast audioboom.com
Producer/Network RNIB Connect Radio
Email ****@rnib.org.uk
Apple Rating 4 / 5Facebook Followers 73.2KTwitter Followers 52.1KInstagram Followers 21K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 55 min Since Jan 2017 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

8. Hardcore Literature

Welcome to your new favorite book club. If you enjoy deep dives into the greatest books ever written, you will love Hardcore Literature. Provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses. We don't just read the great books - we live them. Together we'll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy. We'll relish the most moving art ever committed to the page and stage from every age. Join us on the reading adventure of a lifetime.
Podcast benjaminmcevoy.libsyn.com
Producer/Network Benjamin McEvoy
Email ****@benjaminmcevoy.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Twitter Followers 122 Frequency 2 episodes/month Avg Length 74 min Since Oct 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

9. Storynory: Stories for Kids

Storynory brings you an audio story every week. Each one is beautifully read by Natasha and friends. Let Natasha's voice beguile you with classic fairy tales, new children's stories, poems, myths, adventures, and romance.
Podcast storynory.com
Host Natasha
Producer/Network Storynory
Email ****@storynory.com
Apple Rating 4.2 / 5Facebook Followers 8.6KTwitter Followers 2.4KInstagram Followers 1.6K Frequency 2 episodes/month Avg Length 14 min Since Dec 2008 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

10. Simon Mayo's Books Of The Year

Simon Mayo and Matt Williams invite the world's finest authors in for a chat. Plus the best-unpublished work and your reviews.
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Producer/Network Ora Et Labora
Email ****@yahoo.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Twitter Followers 13.3K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 33 min Since Jun 2018 Listen on Spotify Play Get Email Contact

11. Two Girls One Book

A bi-weekly book club podcast. Two friends talking about words, drinking wine, and probably offering too many opinions.
Podcast buzzsprout.com
Producer/Network Rhiannon Fallows & Hannah Wilkinson
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Instagram Followers 14.5K Frequency 2 episodes/month Avg Length 44 min Since Jan 2021 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

12. Beatles Books

A podcast that chats to a wide variety of Beatle authors and writers. What inspired them to add their entry into a library of over 1000 books?
Podcast beatlesbooks.podbean.com
Host Joe Wisbey
Producer/Network Joe Wisbey
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Twitter Followers 11.4KInstagram Followers 5.7K Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 46 min Since Sep 2020 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

13. The Log Books

What if you could glimpse into LGBTQIA life from decades ago? Since 1974 volunteers at Switchboard, the LGBT helpline, have written notes in the charity's logbooks. Hosts Tash Walker and Adam Smith are re-opening these pages today, to explore untold stories from Britain's queer history. Each episode explores a different theme from LGBTQIA life through logbook entries, dozens of voices sharing their own memories, and conversations about being queer today.
Podcast thelogbooks.org
Producer/Network Tash Walker, Adam Zmith and Shivani Dave
Email ****@adamesmith.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Twitter Followers 6K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 40 min Since Oct 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

14. book(ish) podcast

book(ish) is a podcast about books...ish. Elle and Kath talk about their latest reads, favorite authors, and brutal goodreads rating. They put the world to rights, discuss what's trending on Twitter and chat about the worst Bumble profiles they've seen. Each bi-weekly episode delves into a popular recent read, discussing the broader themes and relating them to what's going on in the world.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Producer/Network book(ish) podcast
Email ****@bookishpodcast.co.uk
Apple Rating 5 / 5Twitter Followers 78Instagram Followers 888 Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 56 min Since Jan 2021 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

15. Tender Buttons

A Bristol-based podcast chatting to writers and artists about their ideas, process and politics
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Hosts Jessica Andrews, Jack Young
Producer/Network tenderbuttonspodcast
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 1.4KTwitter Followers 783Instagram Followers 926 Frequency 2 episodes/quarter Avg Length 50 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

16. Confessions of a Book Collector

Book collectors and literary enthusiasts unite in first-of-it's-kind podcast. Goldsboro Book's Managing Director and Co-Founder, David Headley an award-winning bookseller and renowned literary agent, explores all aspects of publishing and book collecting, interviewing bestselling and upcoming authors, whilst sharing his own insights on book investing and the most inspiring reads to add to your collection.
Podcast buzzsprout.com
Producer/Network Goldsboro Books
Email ****@goldsborobooks.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 6KTwitter Followers 20KInstagram Followers 29.6K Frequency 4 episodes/quarter Avg Length 32 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

17. Bare Books Podcast

Join Daizi and April on their quest to review and interview self-published Indie authors, let's find our next favorite author together.
Podcast barebooks.podbean.com
Producer/Network Daizi Rae
Email ****@barebooks.co.uk
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 119Twitter Followers 1.1K Frequency 4 episodes/quarter Avg Length 30 min Since Jun 2020 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

18. Talking Sports Books

Presented by Tim Caple 'Talking Sports Books' does exactly that every month we review the best Sports literature talking to a selection of authors about their recent releases and rounding up the bestsellers lists in the UK and USA.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Producer/Network TIM CAPLE
Email ****@yahoo.co.uk
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 995Twitter Followers 273Instagram Followers 23 Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 36 min Since Oct 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

19. Got Books? Conversations with Booksellers

This podcast is for those who love getting lost in and among books. We chat to bookshop owners all around the world to ask: What influences our reading choices? Is Orwell right: are bookshops 'a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios'?
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Producer/Network Antonia Caraveteanu
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 226Twitter Followers 160Instagram Followers 438 Frequency 7 episodes/year Avg Length 41 min Since Jan 2021 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

20. John Sandoe Books

'Quite simply the best bookshop anyone could wish for' - Edna O'Brien. Independent bookshop (est. in 1957) Chelsea, London.
Podcast johnsandoe.com
Host John Sandoe
Producer/Network John Sandoe Books
Email ****@johnsandoe.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 2KTwitter Followers 3.2KInstagram Followers 20.1K Frequency 2 episodes/quarter Avg Length 45 min Since Sep 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

21. Books of their Lives

shelf help. is the world's first self-help book club and platform and is dedicated to celebrating, inspiring and supporting your self-help journey. In this podcast, founder Toni Jones invites authors and experts doing great stuff in the world to share the best of their shelves and discuss the books that have shaped them. Along the way, as we get a glimpse into their life stories through their book choices, we'll also hopefully work out how they got so wise, how they design their lives, and how we can apply some of their most important life lessons to our own healing, happiness and growth.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Producer/Network Toni Jones
Email ****@shelfhelp.club
Apple Rating 5 / 5Instagram Followers 16.2K Frequency 1 episode/quarter Avg Length 31 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

22. Teaching My Cat To Read

'Teaching My Cat to Read' is a hilarious book podcast that adds a unique comedic twist to literary discussions - join us as we explore a wide range of books through humorous conversations.
Podcast teachingmycattoread.wordpress.com
Producer/Network Teaching my Cat to Read
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Twitter Followers 166Instagram Followers 1.7K Frequency 7 episodes/year Avg Length 55 min Listen on Apple Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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23. The LRB Podcast

The LRB Podcast brings you weekly conversations from Europe's leading magazine of culture and ideas. Hosted by Thomas Jones and Malin Hay, with guest episodes from the LRB's US editor Adam Shatz, Meehan Crist, Rosemary Hill and more.Find the LRB's new Close Readings podcast in on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or search 'LRB Close Readings' wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Podcast lrb.co.uk
Producer/Network London Review of Books
Email ****@lrb.co.uk
Facebook Followers 346.9KTwitter Followers 315.7KInstagram Followers 138.5K Frequency 4 episodes/month Avg Length 43 min Since Feb 2010 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

24. Bookcareers

Career Guidance and Development for the Book Industry.
Podcast bookcareers.com
Producer/Network Suzanne Collier
Email ****@bookcareers.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 1.8KTwitter Followers 15.8KInstagram Followers 670 Frequency 11 episodes/year Avg Length 21 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

25. Fun Kids Book Worms

Join Bex from the children's radio station Fun Kids as she meets top authors who tell her about their books and also read us chapters from them!
Podcast funkidslive.com
Producer/Network Fun Kids
Email ****@funkidslive.com
Apple Rating 3.5 / 5Facebook Followers 8.6KTwitter Followers 9.5K Frequency 2 episodes/month Avg Length 25 min Since Jul 2017 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

26. London Review Bookshop Podcast

Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music, and much more.
Podcast play.acast.com
Producer/Network London Review of Books
Email ****@lrbbookshop.co.uk
Facebook Followers 16.6KTwitter Followers 53.7KInstagram Followers 57.5K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 60 min Since Jan 2004 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

27. The Book Club

Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented by Sam Leith.
Podcast spectator.co.uk
Producer/Network The Spectator
Email ****@spectator.co.uk
Facebook Followers 193.1KTwitter Followers 257.7KInstagram Followers 746 Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 39 min Since Sep 2016 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

28. The Books Podcast

An authoritative look at recent books that may or may not have shown up on your radar screen. Fiction and nonfiction. Biographies and comic books. Politics and the arts. And quite certainly, no gardening or cookery books. All presented with Tim Haigh's passion for books and writing. Tim is a widely respected critic, reviewer and broadcaster. Expert without being stuffy, he is noted for the lively intelligence and irreverence he brings to the field.
Podcast bookspodcast.com
Producer/Network Green-Shoot
Email ****@green-shoot.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5 Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 25 min Since Jun 2018 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

29. Tea or Books?

Simon (Stuck in a Book) and Rachel (Book Snob) debate the difficult decisions of books and reading.
Podcast stuckinabook.com
Producer/Network Simon and Rachel
Email ****@yahoo.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 772Twitter Followers 2.8K Frequency 1 episode/month Since Jun 2015 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

30. You're Booked

Welcome to You are Booked, the podcast for literary nosy parkers who would like the chance to snoop around their favorite author's bookshelves. I am Daisy Buchanan, your Book Inspector, and I will be asking our guests all about the first forbidden books they read under the covers, the beloved books they have borrowed, and never given back, and those impressive heavyweight hardbacks that make them look like intellectual giants even though they could not get beyond the first twenty pages.
Podcast play.acast.com
Host Daisy Buchanan
Producer/Network Daisy Buchanan
Email ****@gmail.com
Facebook Followers 283Twitter Followers 1.9KInstagram Followers 2.2K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 56 min Since Oct 2018 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact