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 2026

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10/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:41:19

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (12 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	42	BBC	58
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	172	BBC	38
4	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
5	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
6	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
7	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
8	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
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	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	103	BBC	53
13	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	1	Acast	69
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
16	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	227	Acast	43
17	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
18	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
19	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
20	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
21	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1010	Simplecast	38
25	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
26	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
27	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
28	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
29	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
30	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
31	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
32	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
33	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
36	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
37	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
38	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
39	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
40	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
42	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
43	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
44	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
45	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
46	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
47	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
48	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
49	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
50	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
51	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
52	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
54	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
55	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
56	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	204	Simplecast	58
57	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
58	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
59	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	303	WideOrbit	68
60	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
61	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
62	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
63	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
64	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
65	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
66	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
67	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	646	Acast	69
68	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
69	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
70	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
71	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
73	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
74	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
75	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
77	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
78	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
79	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
80	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
82	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
84	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
85	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	3	Unknown	63
86	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
87	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
88	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
89	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
90	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
91	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
92	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
93	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	322	Simplecast	53
94	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
95	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
97	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
98	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
99	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
100	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	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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