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 Jul 2026

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07/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 173

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:40:04

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Megaphone (10 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
3	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
4	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
7	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
10	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
11	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
14	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
16	Real Unexplained Stories	Real Unexplained Stories	Society & Culture	16	Buzzsprout	73
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
18	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
21	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
22	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
23	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
24	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
25	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
26	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
29	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
30	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	32
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
34	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
35	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
36	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
37	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
39	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
41	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
42	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
43	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
44	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
45	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
46	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
47	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
48	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
49	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
50	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
51	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
52	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
53	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
54	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
55	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
56	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
57	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
58	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	701	BBC	28
59	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
60	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
61	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
64	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
65	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
66	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
67	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
68	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	677	Acast	69
69	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
70	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
71	Inside the Reading Gap	Thinking Reading	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
72	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
73	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
74	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
75	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
76	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
77	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
78	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
79	Ramble with Joe McGucken	RTÉ	Society & Culture	3	Omny Studio	59
80	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
81	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
82	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
83	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	355	Simplecast	78
84	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
85	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
87	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
88	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	84	Acast	74
89	Woman Overboard	Katherine Sutherland	Society & Culture	3	Acast	49
90	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
91	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
92	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
93	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
94	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	150	Simplecast	73
95	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	327	Simplecast	53
96	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
97	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	160	Libsyn	72
98	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
99	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	16	BBC	63
100	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63

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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