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 Sep 2025

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09/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:43:27

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
3	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
4	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
5	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
11	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
12	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
21	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
22	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
23	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
24	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
26	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
27	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
28	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
29	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
30	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
31	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
32	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
33	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
34	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
35	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
36	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
37	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
38	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
39	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
40	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
42	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
43	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
47	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
48	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
49	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
50	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
51	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
52	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
53	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
54	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
55	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
56	So Disappointed Details temporarily unavailable	So Disappointed	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
57	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
58	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
59	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
60	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
61	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
64	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
65	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
66	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
67	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
68	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
69	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
70	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
71	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
72	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
73	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
74	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
75	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
76	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
77	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
78	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
79	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
80	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
81	Bitesized Folklore	Jodie Paterson	Society & Culture	31	Captivate	73
82	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
83	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
84	The Chunter Basha w/ Billy Billingham	Mark "Billy" Billingham	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	28
85	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
86	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
87	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
88	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
89	Pablo Escobar: Escape from La Catedral	Spotify Studios	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
90	Nicht Mehr Mein Land - In der Manosphere	ARD	Society & Culture	7	Bayerischer Rundfunk	48
91	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
92	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
93	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
94	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
95	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
96	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
97	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
98	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
99	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
100	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79

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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