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 Oct 2025

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10/05/2025

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:44:03

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
2	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
6	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
7	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
13	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
14	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
15	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
16	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
17	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
18	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
19	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
21	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
23	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
24	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
26	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
27	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
28	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
29	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
30	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
31	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
33	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
34	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
36	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
37	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
38	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
39	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
40	The Stephen Howson Podcast	Stephen Howson	Society & Culture	13	Spotify for Podcasters	42
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
42	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
43	Paddy's Podcast	Paddy O'Gorman	Society & Culture	43	Buzzsprout	52
44	Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C	Planet B Productions	Science	6	Spotify for Podcasters	42
45	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
46	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
47	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
48	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
49	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
50	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
51	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
52	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
54	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
55	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
56	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
57	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
58	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
59	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
60	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
61	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
62	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
63	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
64	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
65	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
66	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
67	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
68	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
69	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
71	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
72	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
73	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
74	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
75	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
76	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
77	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
78	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
79	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
80	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
81	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
82	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
83	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
84	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
85	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
86	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
87	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
88	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
89	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
90	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
91	Hateland	ARD	Society & Culture	15	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	63
92	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
93	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
94	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
95	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
96	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
97	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
98	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
99	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
100	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74

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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