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 Oct 2025

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10/04/2025

Average data

Episodes: 175

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:43:14

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
2	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
3	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
7	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
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	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
13	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
17	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
18	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
19	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
21	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
23	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
24	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
25	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
26	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
27	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
28	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
29	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
30	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
31	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
33	Paddy's Podcast	Paddy O'Gorman	Society & Culture	43	Buzzsprout	52
34	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	676	Acast	69
35	Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C	Planet B Productions	Science	6	Spotify for Podcasters	42
36	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
37	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
38	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
39	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
40	The Stephen Howson Podcast	Stephen Howson	Society & Culture	13	Spotify for Podcasters	42
41	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
42	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
43	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
44	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
47	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
48	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
49	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
51	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
52	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
53	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
54	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
56	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
58	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	66	Captivate	69
59	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
60	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	93	Megaphone	63
61	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
62	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
63	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
64	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
65	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
66	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
67	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
69	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
70	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
71	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
72	Summat in t'Air	Yorkshire Air Ambulance	Society & Culture	5	Captivate	69
73	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
74	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
75	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
76	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
77	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	Exeter Stories	Paul Batterham	Society & Culture	6	RSS.com	73
80	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
81	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
82	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
83	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
84	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
85	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
86	Hateland	ARD	Society & Culture	16	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	63
87	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
88	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
89	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
90	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
91	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
92	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
93	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
94	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
95	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
96	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
97	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
98	The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior	RNZ	Society & Culture	7	Acast	58
99	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	Spreaker	43
100	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63

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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