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 04 Mar 2026

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03/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:43:14

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. BBC (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (14 shows)

4. Megaphone (13 shows)

5. Spreaker (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	105	BBC	38
6	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
10	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
15	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
20	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
21	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
22	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
24	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	413	BBC	28
25	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
26	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
27	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
28	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
29	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
30	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
31	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	51	Acast	94
32	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
33	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
34	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
35	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
36	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	43
37	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
38	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
39	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
40	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
41	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
42	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
43	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
44	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
45	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
46	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
47	Different with Nicky Campbell	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	69	BBC	28
48	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	27	Libsyn	73
49	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
52	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
53	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
54	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
55	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
56	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
57	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
58	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
59	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
60	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
61	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	144	Captivate	79
62	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
63	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
64	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
65	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
66	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
67	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
68	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
69	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	73
70	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
71	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
72	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
73	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
74	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
75	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
76	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
77	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
78	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
79	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
80	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
81	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
82	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
83	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
84	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
85	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
86	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
87	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	431	Audioboom	48
88	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
89	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	163	Omny Studio	69
90	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
91	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
92	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
93	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
94	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
95	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
96	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
97	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
98	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
99	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
100	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64

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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