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 Oct 2026

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10/01/2026

Average data

Episodes: 171

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:41:38

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. Sky News (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
4	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	101	BBC	38
6	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
8	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
9	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
10	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	227	Acast	43
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
18	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
19	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
21	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
22	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	1	Acast	69
23	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
24	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
30	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
31	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
33	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
36	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
37	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
38	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
40	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
41	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
42	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
43	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
44	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
45	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
46	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
47	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
48	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
49	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
50	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
51	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
52	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
53	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
54	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
55	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
56	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
57	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
58	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
59	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
60	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
61	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
62	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
63	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
64	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
65	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
68	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
69	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
70	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
71	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
72	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
73	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
74	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
75	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
76	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
79	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
80	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
82	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	646	Acast	69
85	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
86	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
87	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
88	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
89	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
90	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
92	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	322	Simplecast	53
93	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
94	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
95	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
96	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
97	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	4	PRX	59
98	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	343	Acast	64
99	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
100	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89

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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