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 02 Jul 2026

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07/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 165

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:40:07

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Megaphone (10 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
3	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
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	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
8	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
13	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Real Unexplained Stories	Real Unexplained Stories	Society & Culture	16	Buzzsprout	73
17	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
18	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
19	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
20	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
21	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
22	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
23	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
24	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
27	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
28	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
30	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
31	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
32	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
33	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
34	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
35	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
36	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
37	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
38	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
39	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
40	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
41	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
42	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
43	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
44	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
45	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
46	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
47	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
48	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
49	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
52	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
53	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
54	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
55	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
56	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
57	Woman Overboard	Katherine Sutherland	Society & Culture	3	Acast	49
58	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
59	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
60	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
61	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
62	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
63	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
64	Inside the Reading Gap	Thinking Reading	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
65	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
66	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
69	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
70	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
71	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
72	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
73	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
74	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
75	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
76	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
77	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
78	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
79	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
80	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
81	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
82	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
83	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
84	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
85	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
86	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
87	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
88	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
89	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
90	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
91	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	30	RSS.com	68
92	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
93	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
94	Ramble with Joe McGucken	RTÉ	Society & Culture	3	Omny Studio	59
95	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
97	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
98	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
99	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
100	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58

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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