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 Aug 2025

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08/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 194

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:42:13

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 (28 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
8	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
15	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
16	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
17	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
19	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
21	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
22	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
23	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
24	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
25	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
26	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
27	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
28	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
29	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
30	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
31	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
32	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
33	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
34	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
35	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
36	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	66	Captivate	69
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
39	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
40	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
41	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
42	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
43	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
44	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
45	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
46	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
48	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	102	Acast	59
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
51	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
52	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
53	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
54	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
55	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
56	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
57	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
58	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
59	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
60	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
61	So Disappointed Details temporarily unavailable	So Disappointed	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
62	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	114	Spotify for Podcasters	42
63	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
64	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
66	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
67	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
68	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
69	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
70	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
71	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
72	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
73	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
74	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
75	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
76	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
77	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
79	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
80	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
81	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
82	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
83	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
84	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
85	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
86	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
87	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
88	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
89	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
90	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
91	White Men Can't Work!	Tim Samuels	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
92	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
93	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
94	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	160	Libsyn	72
95	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
96	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
97	The IMO Podcast - open and honest conversations with care leavers	IMO - In My Opinion	Society & Culture	25	Pinecast	58
98	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
99	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
100	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84

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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