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 03 Mar 2026

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03/03/2026

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:42:42

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Spreaker (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
8	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
9	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
11	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
12	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
15	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
17	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
18	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
21	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
22	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
25	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
26	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
27	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
29	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
30	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
31	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
32	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
33	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
34	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
35	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
37	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
38	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
39	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
40	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
41	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
42	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
43	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
44	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
46	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
47	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
48	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
49	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
50	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	142	Captivate	79
51	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	27	Libsyn	73
52	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
55	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
56	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
58	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
59	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
60	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
63	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
64	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
65	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
66	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
67	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
68	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
69	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
70	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
71	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
72	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
73	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
74	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
75	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
76	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
77	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
80	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
81	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
82	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
83	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
84	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
85	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
86	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
87	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
88	Patient 11	Sky News	True Crime	6	Spreaker	64
89	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
90	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	430	Audioboom	48
91	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
92	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
94	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
95	Who Robs A Banksy?	Podimo & Message Heard	Society & Culture	10	Audioboom	53
96	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
97	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
98	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	648	Acast	69
99	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
100	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62

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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