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 Aug 2026

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08/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 170

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:40:55

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
5	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
6	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
10	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
12	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
18	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
20	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
21	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
22	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
27	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
28	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
30	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
31	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
32	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
33	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
34	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
35	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
36	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
37	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
38	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
39	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
41	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
42	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
43	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
44	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
46	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
47	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
48	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
49	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
50	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
51	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
52	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
53	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
54	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
55	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
56	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
57	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
58	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
59	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
60	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
61	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
62	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
63	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
64	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
65	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
66	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
67	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
68	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
71	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
72	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
73	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
74	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
75	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
76	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
77	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
78	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	323	Simplecast	53
79	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
80	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
81	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
82	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
83	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	79	Acast	74
84	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
85	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
87	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
88	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
89	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
90	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
91	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
92	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
93	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
94	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
95	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
96	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	430	Audioboom	48
97	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
98	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
99	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
100	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28

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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