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 Aug 2025

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08/02/2025

Average data

Episodes: 197

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:42:38

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (10 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Top Comment	BBC	News	98	BBC	48
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
3	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
7	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
8	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
12	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
16	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
17	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
18	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
20	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
21	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
24	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
25	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
26	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
27	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
28	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
29	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
30	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
31	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
32	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
34	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
35	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
38	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
39	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
40	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
41	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	195	Spotify for Podcasters	27
42	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
44	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
45	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
46	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
47	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
48	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
49	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	32
50	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	97	Acast	59
51	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
52	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
55	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
56	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	638	Acast	69
57	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
58	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
61	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
62	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
63	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
64	White Men Can't Work!	Tim Samuels	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
65	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
66	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
67	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
68	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	59	Libsyn	42
69	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
70	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	321	Simplecast	53
71	The Naked Truth	Estelle Keeber & Vicky Borman	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	43
72	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
73	So Disappointed Details temporarily unavailable	So Disappointed	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
74	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
75	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
76	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
77	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
78	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	69	Spreaker	43
79	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
80	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
81	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
82	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
83	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58
84	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
85	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	142	Captivate	79
86	The All or Nothing Podcast with Billy Moore	Billy Moore	Society & Culture	99	Spotify for Podcasters	22
87	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
88	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
89	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
90	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
91	Bitesized Folklore	Jodie Paterson	Society & Culture	31	Captivate	73
92	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
93	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
94	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
95	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	158	Omny Studio	69
96	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
97	The Unsettled Dead	Deborah Davies	Society & Culture	8	Podbean	53
98	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
99	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
100	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	400	Buzzsprout	83

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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