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 oct. 2025

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10/03/2025

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:42:43

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. Sky News (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
14	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
17	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
18	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
20	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
21	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
22	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
23	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
24	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
25	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
27	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
28	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
29	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
30	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
31	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
32	Paddy's Podcast	Paddy O'Gorman	Society & Culture	43	Buzzsprout	52
33	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
34	Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C	Planet B Productions	Science	6	Spotify for Podcasters	42
35	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
36	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
37	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
38	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
39	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
40	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
41	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
42	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
43	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
44	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
46	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
49	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
50	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
51	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
52	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
53	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
54	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
55	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
57	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
58	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
59	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
60	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
61	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
62	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
63	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
64	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
65	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
66	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
67	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
71	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
72	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
73	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
74	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
75	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
76	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	85	Acast	89
77	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
78	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
79	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
80	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
81	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
82	The Stephen Howson Podcast	Stephen Howson	Society & Culture	13	Spotify for Podcasters	42
83	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
84	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
85	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
86	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
87	Geography Matters	Chris Hamnett	Society & Culture	28	Captivate	79
88	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
89	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
90	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
91	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
92	Patient 11	Sky News	True Crime	6	Spreaker	64
93	Unfit For Service	Wavland	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	63
94	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
95	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
96	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
97	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
98	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
99	Exeter Stories	Paul Batterham	Society & Culture	6	RSS.com	73
100	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68

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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