15 Best Business Podcasts UK: Our 2026 Shortlist

Ask ten people for the best business podcasts UK listeners should have in their feed and you'll get ten different answers, most of them American. This list stays closer to home. Every show below is made or hosted in Britain, still publishing in 2026, and checked by us rather than copied from someone else's roundup. We make video podcasts for B2B brands at Earworm, which means we spend an unreasonable amount of time studying other people's shows. These are the 15 we keep coming back to.

We've grouped them by theme: leadership, startups, money and marketing. And if listening gets you thinking about launching rather than subscribing, our B2B podcast production service exists for exactly that itch.

How we picked them

Three rules. The show had to be UK made or UK hosted. It had to be active in 2026, with new episodes we could actually find, because podcast graveyards are full of lists recommending shows that quietly stopped two years ago. And it had to be useful, not just famous. We've also included two shows we produce ourselves, clearly flagged, because leaving them out felt falsely modest.

A quick note on how to use the list. Nobody needs 15 new subscriptions. Pick one show from the theme closest to your job, listen to three episodes, and keep it only if you'd genuinely miss it. The best business podcast is the one you actually finish on the school run, not the one that looks impressive in your app.

Best business podcasts UK: leadership and big ideas

1. The Diary of a CEO

Steven Bartlett's long-form interview show needs little introduction. In December 2025, Spotify announced it had overtaken Joe Rogan to become Britain's most popular podcast on the platform. Bartlett sits down with founders, scientists and the occasional billionaire for ninety minutes or more. Recent 2026 episodes include sleep scientist Matthew Walker on the habits that predict longevity, and veteran investor Jeremy Grantham on why he believes AI is a bubble. It drifts well beyond business into health and psychology these days, but the production bar it sets for video podcasting is the reason every brand now wants a multi-camera studio recording. Listen to The Diary of a CEO.

2. The High Performance Podcast

Broadcaster Jake Humphrey and organisational psychologist Professor Damian Hughes interview elite performers about what high performance actually costs. Guests lean sporty (Premier League footballer Alex Iwobi recently opened up about the loneliness of leaving Arsenal and how trust resurrected his career), but the lessons translate straight into leadership. The pair started 2026 by publishing Micro Habits, a book distilled from more than 400 interviews across five years of the show, structured as 48 short chapters, one for each working week of the year. Episodes land twice a week. Best for managers who like their business lessons with a changing-room flavour. Listen to The High Performance Podcast.

3. The Bottom Line

Evan Davis has chaired this BBC Radio 4 panel show since 2007, and it has quietly become one of the most reliable business listens in the country, with more than 420 episodes banked. Each week a panel of bosses and industry insiders unpacks a single topic. Recent 2026 episodes covered the rental market, mergers and acquisitions, and workplace bullying. There's also a spin-off strand, Decisions That Made Me, in which leaders revisit the calls that defined their careers. No hype, no hustle culture, just people who run things explaining how things run. Listen to The Bottom Line.

4. Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley ran Twitter's European business and worked at YouTube before making workplace culture his full-time subject. His podcast interviews psychologists, neuroscientists and workplace researchers about how to make work better, and it has topped Apple's business chart. In 2026 he has spoken with Glassdoor chief economist Daniel Zhao about the best places to work in 2026, and with performance psychologist Dr Pippa Grange, who has worked with the England men's football team. Essential listening for anyone responsible for a team's culture, and mercifully free of ping-pong-table thinking. Listen to Eat Sleep Work Repeat.

Startups and founders

5. Secret Leaders

Running since 2017 with more than 400 episodes, Secret Leaders is one of Europe's best-known business podcasts. Hosts Dan Murray-Serter and Chris Donnelly, both serial entrepreneurs, interview the people behind companies like Monzo, BrewDog, Jo Malone and Slack, and dig into the failures as enthusiastically as the wins. The James Watt episode on BrewDog's early stunts is a good place to start. New episodes arrive every Tuesday. Best for founders who want war stories with the gory bits left in. Listen to Secret Leaders.

6. The Twenty Minute VC (20VC)

Harry Stebbings started 20VC as a teenager and built it into a media brand and venture fund, which tells you something about what a podcast can do for a career. The show had clocked up 1,470 episodes by mid-2026 and abandoned the twenty-minute format long ago. Guests are the sharpest names in venture and tech: recent episodes include Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor on enterprise AI and Bloom Energy founder KR Sridhar on the power demands of the AI boom. If you're raising money or writing cheques, it's non-negotiable. Listen to 20VC.

7. Working Hard with Grace Beverley

Formerly titled Working Hard, Hardly Working, this is entrepreneur Grace Beverley's show about building businesses without romanticising burnout. She interviews founders, investors and campaigners from unexpected fields, and mixes in practical solo episodes: January 2026 brought a goal-setting reset and a personal finance overhaul for the new year. Guests are honest about what went wrong as well as what worked, which is rarer than it should be. Best for early-stage founders and anyone running a business alongside a day job. Listen to Working Hard with Grace Beverley.

Money and finance

8. The Rest Is Money

Robert Peston and Steph McGovern unpack the week's business and economics news twice a week as part of Goalhanger's all-conquering podcast stable. Peston brings the Westminster sources, McGovern brings the plain English, and together they make wealth taxes, AI economics and the state of UK growth genuinely listenable. Recent 2026 episodes have tackled billionaire taxes and what the latest policy moves mean for British business. It's the fastest way to sound informed in a Monday meeting. Listen to The Rest Is Money.

9. Money Clinic with Claer Barrett

The Financial Times' money podcast takes real questions from real listeners and puts them to FT journalists and outside experts. A recent episode unpacked how the new taxes in Rachel Reeves' Budget will actually be applied, with tax specialist Dan Neidle and FT investment columnist Stuart Kirk among the guests. It's personal finance rather than boardroom strategy, but every business owner is also a person with a pension, and Barrett asks sharper questions than most. Listen to Money Clinic.

10. Making Money

Damien Jordan, the UK's top personal finance YouTuber, hosts this show with his best mate Timeyin Akerele. It covers investing, pensions and the psychology of money in plain language, aimed at people who want to build wealth without pretending to be hedge fund managers. The video-first format and the unpolished chemistry between the two hosts show exactly why the YouTube generation of finance shows is eating traditional radio's lunch. Listen to Making Money.

11. The CFO Playbook

Full disclosure: this show and the next one are Earworm productions, so read on knowing we're biased. The CFO Playbook is Soldo's podcast for finance leaders, built around the priorities, challenges and perspectives of senior CFOs rather than around Soldo's product. It positioned the company at the centre of CFO conversations and turned episodes into qualified pipeline, which is the entire point of a B2B show. If you want to see how a branded podcast works commercially, read The CFO Playbook case study.

12. The Art of Investing

Produced by Earworm for IG, The Art of Investing exists to cut through market noise and make complex financial topics accessible, engaging and relevant to a broad audience. The hosts bring real market insight and energy to every episode, and the show is designed so a single studio recording becomes YouTube episodes, social clips and audio feeds. Read The Art of Investing case study for the full story.

Marketing and careers

13. Uncensored CMO

Jon Evans spent years at research firm System1 before leaving to run Uncensored CMO full time, which is a decent signal of how well the show is doing. He gets marketing leaders to say the things they usually save for the pub. June 2026 alone brought Chili's CMO George Felix on one of the most impressive brand turnarounds in recent memory, and Klaviyo CMO Jamie Domenici on customer experience as a growth driver. The Sir John Hegarty episodes are the back-catalogue gems. Best for CMOs, brand managers and agency folk. Listen to Uncensored CMO.

14. Nudge

Phill Agnew's behavioural science show explains the hidden psychology behind why people buy, with roughly 290 episodes of evidence-based tactics. Guests have included Rory Sutherland, Richard Shotton and former FBI negotiator Chris Voss. Early 2026 episodes dug into why loss aversion outperforms gain framing and how to use scarcity without it backfiring. Every episode hands you something you can test the same week, which is more than most marketing conferences manage. Best for marketers who prefer studies to vibes. Listen to Nudge.

15. Squiggly Careers

Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis, founders of career development company Amazing If and authors of three Sunday Times bestsellers, host this weekly show about navigating modern, non-linear careers. It passed 565 episodes in April 2026 and has been recommended by Harvard Business Review, Stylist and Management Today. Episodes are short, practical and built around tools you can use immediately, covering everything from confidence gremlins to managing stress at work. Best for anyone leading a team, or quietly plotting their own next move. Listen to Squiggly Careers.

What the best shows have in common

Three things, mostly. They publish on a schedule and stick to it for years, not weeks. Evan Davis has been at it since 2007, and Secret Leaders has passed 400 episodes; consistency is the least glamorous and most important habit in podcasting. They have a format you could describe in one sentence, whether that's bosses debating one topic or a CMO being unusually honest for an hour. And increasingly they're video-first: The Diary of a CEO, 20VC and Making Money all treat YouTube as a primary channel rather than an afterthought. That's the model we use for client shows too. One studio recording becomes YouTube episodes, LinkedIn clips and audio feeds, so every conversation works several times over. You can see how that plays out across our case studies.

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