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 01 Jun 2026

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06/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 175

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:40:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
2	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
3	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
8	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
9	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
14	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
15	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
18	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
21	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
22	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
23	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
24	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
28	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
29	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
30	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
31	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
32	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
33	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
34	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
35	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
36	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
37	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
39	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
40	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
41	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
42	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
43	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
44	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
45	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
46	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
47	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
48	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
49	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
50	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
51	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
52	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
54	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
55	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
56	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
57	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
58	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
59	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
60	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
61	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
62	The Church Studio Presents Miss O'Dell: Abbey Road to Tulsa Time	The Church Studio	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	58
63	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
65	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
66	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
67	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
68	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
69	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
70	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
71	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
72	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
73	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
74	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
75	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
76	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
77	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
78	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
79	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	48
80	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
81	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
82	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
83	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
84	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
85	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
86	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
87	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	159	Simplecast	73
88	Dreamtown: The Story of Adelanto	Crooked Media	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	58
89	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
90	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
91	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
92	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
93	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
94	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
95	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
96	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
97	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
98	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
99	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
100	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	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.

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