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 Nov 2026

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11/05/2026

Average data

Episodes: 152

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:42:29

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	133	BBC	38
3	Famously	The Upshot	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	48
4	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	8	Acast	69
5	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	58
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	711	Megaphone	53
7	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	162	Megaphone	48
8	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	453	Acast	74
10	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
11	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
12	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	29	American Public Media	62
13	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	238	Acast	43
16	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	63
17	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	16	BBC	63
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	946	Simplecast	38
20	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	315	Megaphone	42
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	445	Megaphone	32
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	359	ART19	68
23	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
24	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
26	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
27	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
28	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
29	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1209	Acast	59
30	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	84	Acast	74
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
32	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
33	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	56	Megaphone	48
34	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
35	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	518	BBC	28
36	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	417	BBC	28
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
39	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
40	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
41	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
42	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	55	Acast	94
43	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	32
44	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	273	Spreaker	69
46	Child on the Line	Natalie Dormer	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	73
47	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	356	Simplecast	78
48	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	59	PRX	74
49	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
50	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	52
51	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
52	PSNI Beyond the Badge	Police Service of Northern Ireland	Society & Culture	5	Podbean	52
53	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	33	Libsyn	68
56	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
57	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
58	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	95	Libsyn	62
59	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
60	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	27	ART19	73
61	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
63	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	69
64	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	153	N/A	N/A
65	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
66	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
67	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	24	Buzzsprout	42
68	Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast	CAFx - Copenhagen Architecture Forum	Society & Culture	65	Libsyn	27
69	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
70	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
71	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
72	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	194	Ximalaya	53
73	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	679	Acast	69
74	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
75	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
76	Catch Us When We Fall \| QueerAF Uncovered	QueerAF	Society & Culture	1	Acast	84
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	72	Acast	83
79	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
80	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	6	ART19	58
81	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	374	Omny Studio	73
82	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
83	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
84	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
85	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	69
86	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
87	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
88	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	73
89	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
90	WIDE SPIRIT, le podcast qui vous donne la parole sur vos expériences inexpliquées	Emmanuelle Chaumont Rey	Society & Culture	9	Acast	58
91	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
92	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
93	Act Two With Samantha Armytage	Samantha Armytage	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
94	Unquiet Realities	Winchester	Society & Culture	9	RedCircle	79
95	The Relocated South African \| Emigration stories	Jan Hugo - Emigration stories expert	Society & Culture	98	Spotify for Podcasters	42
96	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
97	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
98	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	93	Acast	89
99	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
100	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	156	Spotify for Podcasters	52

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.

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