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 2026

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10/04/2026

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:41:12

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
3	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
4	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
5	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
7	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
8	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
9	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
10	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
14	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
15	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
21	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
23	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
25	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
26	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
29	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	1	Acast	69
30	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
31	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
32	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
33	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
34	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
35	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	303	WideOrbit	68
36	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
37	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
40	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
41	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
42	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
43	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
44	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
45	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
46	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
47	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
49	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
50	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
51	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
52	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
54	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
55	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
56	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
57	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
58	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
59	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
60	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
61	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
62	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
63	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
64	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
65	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
66	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
67	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
68	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
69	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
70	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
71	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
72	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
73	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
74	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
75	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
76	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
77	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
78	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
79	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
80	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
81	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	323	Simplecast	53
83	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
84	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
85	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
86	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
87	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	79	Acast	74
88	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
89	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
90	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
91	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
92	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
93	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
94	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
95	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
96	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
97	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
98	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
99	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
100	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	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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