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 oct. 2025

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10/02/2025

Average data

Episodes: 177

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:44:40

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. RNZ (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
2	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
3	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
4	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
10	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
13	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
15	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
17	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
19	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
20	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
21	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
25	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
26	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
29	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
30	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
31	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
32	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
33	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
34	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
36	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
38	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
39	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
40	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
41	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
42	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
44	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
45	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
46	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
47	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
48	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
49	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
50	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
51	Paddy's Podcast	Paddy O'Gorman	Society & Culture	43	Buzzsprout	52
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
54	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
55	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
56	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
57	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
58	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
59	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
60	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
61	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
62	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
63	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
64	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
65	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
66	Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C	Planet B Productions	Science	6	Spotify for Podcasters	42
67	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
68	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
73	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
74	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
75	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
76	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
77	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
78	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
79	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
80	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
81	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
82	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
83	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
84	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
85	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
86	Az élet meg minden	Tóth Szabolcs Töhötöm	Society & Culture	84	Simplecast	63
87	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
88	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
89	Hateland	ARD	Society & Culture	15	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	63
90	The All or Nothing Podcast with Billy Moore	Billy Moore	Society & Culture	99	Spotify for Podcasters	22
91	Geography Matters	Chris Hamnett	Society & Culture	28	Captivate	79
92	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
93	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
94	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
95	The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior	RNZ	Society & Culture	7	Acast	58
96	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
97	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
98	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
99	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
100	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63

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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