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 05 Apr 2026

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04/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 149

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:40:41

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. BBC (20 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
4	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
7	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
10	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
11	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
17	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
18	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
20	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
21	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
22	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
26	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
27	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
28	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
29	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
31	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
32	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
33	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
34	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
35	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
36	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
37	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
38	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
39	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
40	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
42	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
43	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
44	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
45	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
46	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
47	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
48	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
49	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
50	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
51	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
52	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
54	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
55	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
56	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
57	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
58	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
59	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
60	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
61	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
62	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
63	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
64	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
65	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
66	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
67	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
68	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
69	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
70	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
71	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
72	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
73	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
74	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
75	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
76	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
77	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
78	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
79	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
80	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
81	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	28	Libsyn	58
82	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
83	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
84	The Jeff Stelling Show	The Jeff Stelling Show	Sports	14	Audioboom	58
85	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
86	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
87	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
88	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
89	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
90	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
91	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
92	On the Ground	Geographical	Society & Culture	3	Buzzsprout	38
93	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
94	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	33	Libsyn	68
95	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
96	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
97	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
98	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
99	De Vondeling	AT5	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
100	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69

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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