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 août 2026

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08/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 158

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:40:31

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (8 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. Megaphone (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
2	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
3	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
8	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
10	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
11	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
13	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
14	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
22	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
25	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
29	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
30	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
31	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
32	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
33	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
36	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
37	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
38	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
39	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
40	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
41	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
42	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
43	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
44	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
45	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
46	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
47	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
48	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
49	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
51	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
52	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
53	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
54	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
55	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
56	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
57	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
58	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
59	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
60	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
62	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
63	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
64	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
65	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
66	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
67	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
68	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	58
70	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
71	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
72	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
73	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
74	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
75	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
76	The Cows Are Mad	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	39
77	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
78	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
79	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
82	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
83	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
84	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
85	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
86	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	77	Acast	74
87	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
88	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
89	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
90	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	81	Spotify for Podcasters	52
91	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
92	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
93	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
94	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
95	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
96	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
98	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
99	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
100	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	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.

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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