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 Aug 2026

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08/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 162

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:41:35

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. Sky News (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Megaphone (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
3	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
9	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
10	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
11	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
14	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
15	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
17	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
20	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
21	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
23	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
24	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	224	Acast	43
25	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
26	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
29	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
30	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
31	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
32	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
33	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
36	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1189	Acast	59
37	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
38	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
39	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
40	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
41	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	259	WideOrbit	48
42	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
43	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
44	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	32
45	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	195	Spotify for Podcasters	27
46	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
48	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
49	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
50	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
51	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
52	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
53	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
54	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
55	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
56	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
57	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
58	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
59	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
60	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
61	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
62	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	64	Acast	83
63	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
64	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
66	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
67	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	33	Omny Studio	83
69	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
70	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
71	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	190	Simplecast	58
72	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
73	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
74	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
75	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	158	Omny Studio	69
76	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
77	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
78	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
79	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
80	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	348	Simplecast	78
81	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
82	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
83	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
84	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
85	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
86	The Cows Are Mad	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	39
87	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
88	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
89	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
90	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
91	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	52
92	Under The Concrete	Ibby Alcraft and Rawnak Jassm	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	58
93	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
94	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
95	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
96	A Vida Dupla do Espião Traidor	Observador	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	58
97	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
98	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
99	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
100	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53

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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