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 sept. 2025

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09/06/2025

Average data

Episodes: 200

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:42:33

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
3	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
4	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
5	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
6	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
11	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
12	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
14	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
17	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
21	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
22	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
23	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
24	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
25	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
26	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
27	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
28	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
30	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
31	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
32	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
33	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
34	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
35	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
36	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
37	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
38	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
39	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
40	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
42	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
43	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
44	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
45	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
46	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
47	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
48	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
51	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
52	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
54	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
55	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
56	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
57	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
58	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
59	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
60	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
61	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
62	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
63	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
64	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
65	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
66	Bitesized Folklore	Jodie Paterson	Society & Culture	31	Captivate	73
67	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
68	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
69	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
70	Obscurata \| True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories	True Crime, Mysteries, Paranormal, Unexplained, True Scary Stories	Society & Culture	66	Acast	79
71	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
72	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
73	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
74	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
75	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
76	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
77	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
78	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
79	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
80	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
81	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
82	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
83	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
84	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
85	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
86	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
87	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
88	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
89	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
90	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
91	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
92	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
93	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
94	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
95	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
96	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
97	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
98	Dax Shepard - Audio Biography	Quiet. Please	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	59
99	The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior	RNZ	Society & Culture	7	Acast	58
100	Fat Leonard	Brazen	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	94

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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