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 Sep 2025

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09/03/2025

Average data

Episodes: 208

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:43:20

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
3	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
5	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
8	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
16	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
17	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
20	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
21	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
23	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
25	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
26	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
27	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
28	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
29	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
30	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
31	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
32	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
33	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
34	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
35	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
36	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
37	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
38	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
39	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
40	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
41	Obscurata \| True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories	True Crime, Mysteries, Paranormal, Unexplained, True Scary Stories	Society & Culture	66	Acast	79
42	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
43	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
44	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
45	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
47	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
48	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
51	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
52	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
53	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
54	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
55	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
56	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
57	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
58	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
59	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
60	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
61	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
62	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
63	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
64	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
66	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
67	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
68	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
69	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
70	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
71	So Disappointed Details temporarily unavailable	So Disappointed	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
72	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
73	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
74	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
75	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
76	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
77	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
78	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
79	Nicht Mehr Mein Land - In der Manosphere	ARD	Society & Culture	7	Bayerischer Rundfunk	48
80	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
81	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
82	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
83	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
84	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
85	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
86	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
87	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
89	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
90	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
91	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
92	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
93	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
94	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
95	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
96	The Chunter Basha w/ Billy Billingham	Mark "Billy" Billingham	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	28
97	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	RedCircle	43
98	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	271	PRX	43
99	Prometheus Lens	Justin Brown	Society & Culture	553	Spreaker	74
100	Different with Nicky Campbell	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	69	BBC	28

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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