Apple Podcast Rankings - Great Britain - Documentary

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 03 Oct 2026

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10/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:41:35

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	102	BBC	38
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
3	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
5	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
7	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
8	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
9	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
10	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
11	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	227	Acast	43
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
20	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
21	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
22	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
23	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
24	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	1	Acast	69
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
27	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
28	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
30	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
31	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
32	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
33	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
34	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
35	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
36	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
37	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
38	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
41	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
43	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
44	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
45	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
46	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
47	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
48	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
49	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
50	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
51	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
52	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
53	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
54	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
55	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	303	WideOrbit	68
56	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
57	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
58	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
59	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
60	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
61	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
62	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	647	Acast	69
63	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
64	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
65	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
66	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
69	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
70	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
72	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
73	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
74	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
75	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
77	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
78	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
79	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
80	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
81	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
82	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
83	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
84	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
85	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
86	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
87	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
88	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
89	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
90	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
91	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
92	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
93	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
94	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
95	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	430	Audioboom	48
96	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	322	Simplecast	53
97	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
98	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	79	Acast	74
99	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
100	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62

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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