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 Sep 2025

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09/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 230

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:43:58

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
3	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	158	Acast	73
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	831	Megaphone	53
5	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
6	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	200	BBC	38
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	467	Acast	74
8	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
12	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	234	Acast	79
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1016	Simplecast	38
14	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	502	Megaphone	63
17	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
18	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	381	Spreaker	84
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	104	BBC	53
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
21	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
22	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
23	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1107	Acast	69
24	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	445	Megaphone	32
26	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
27	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	415	Audioboom	62
28	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
29	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
30	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
31	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	537	ART19	68
32	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
33	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
34	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	377	Megaphone	43
35	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
36	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
37	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	44	BBC	58
39	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	272	Spreaker	69
41	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
42	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
43	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
44	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
45	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	11	ART19	63
46	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
47	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
48	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	78
49	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
52	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	235	PRX	79
54	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
55	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
56	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
57	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	266	Acast	69
58	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
59	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
60	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	160	Libsyn	72
61	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	985	Megaphone	52
63	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	102	Acast	59
64	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
65	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
66	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
67	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	108	PRX	64
68	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	67	Captivate	69
69	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
70	Obscurata \| True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories	True Crime, Mysteries, Paranormal, Unexplained, True Scary Stories	Society & Culture	66	Acast	79
71	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
72	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
73	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
74	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	19	ART19	63
75	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
76	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
77	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
78	The Unsettled Dead	Deborah Davies	Society & Culture	8	Podbean	53
79	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
80	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
81	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
82	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
83	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
84	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
85	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
86	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
87	Young Warriors	Ali Fraser	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
88	Bitesized Folklore	Jodie Paterson	Society & Culture	31	Captivate	73
89	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
90	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
91	Class Divide	Class Divide	Society & Culture	25	Acast	84
92	The Wandering Road	Chris & Dean	Society & Culture	127	Buzzsprout	53
93	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
94	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	147	Captivate	79
95	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
96	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
97	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	328	Simplecast	53
98	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
99	Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez	Sonoro \| Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	43
100	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	93	Megaphone	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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