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 2026

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08/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 165

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:40:24

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. The Guardian (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (31 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (8 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	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	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
7	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
8	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
10	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
11	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
12	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
15	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
22	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
23	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
24	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
25	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
26	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
27	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
28	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
29	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
30	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
31	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
32	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
33	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
34	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
35	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
36	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
37	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
38	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
39	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
40	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
41	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
42	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
44	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
45	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
46	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
47	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
48	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
49	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
50	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
51	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
52	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
53	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
54	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
55	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
57	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
58	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
59	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
60	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
61	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
62	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
63	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
64	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
65	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
66	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
67	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
69	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
70	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
71	The Cows Are Mad	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	39
72	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
75	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
76	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
77	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
78	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
79	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
80	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
81	Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem	Audible Originals	Society & Culture	9	ART19	53
82	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
83	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
84	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
85	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
86	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
87	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
88	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
89	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
90	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
91	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
92	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
93	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
95	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
96	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
97	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
98	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
99	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
100	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73

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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