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 06 Apr 2026

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04/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 167

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:42:02

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. BBC (19 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Megaphone (11 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	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	705	Megaphone	53
7	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
12	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
15	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
19	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
21	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
23	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
24	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
25	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
26	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
27	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
28	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
29	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
30	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
31	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
32	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
33	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
35	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
36	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
37	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
38	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
40	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
42	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
43	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
44	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
45	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
46	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
47	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
48	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
49	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
50	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
51	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
52	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
53	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
54	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
55	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
56	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
57	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
58	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
59	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
60	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
61	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
62	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
63	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
64	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
65	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
66	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
67	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
68	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
69	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
70	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
71	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	27	Libsyn	73
72	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
73	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
74	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
75	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
76	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
77	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
78	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
79	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
80	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
81	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
82	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
83	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
84	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
85	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
86	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
87	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
88	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
89	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
90	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
91	The Jeff Stelling Show	The Jeff Stelling Show	Sports	10	Audioboom	58
92	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
93	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
94	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
95	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
96	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
97	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
98	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
99	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
100	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	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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