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 07 Feb 2026

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02/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:42:48

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (17 shows)

3. BBC (16 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
11	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
12	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
17	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
18	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
19	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
21	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
25	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
26	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
27	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
28	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
29	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
30	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
32	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
33	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
34	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
35	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
36	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
38	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
40	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
41	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
42	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
43	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
44	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
45	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
48	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
49	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
50	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
51	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
52	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
53	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
54	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
55	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
56	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
57	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
58	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
61	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
62	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
63	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
64	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
65	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
66	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
67	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
68	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
69	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
70	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
71	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
72	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
73	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
74	Os Segredos da Seita do Yoga	Observador	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	58
75	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
76	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
77	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	142	Captivate	79
78	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
79	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
80	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
81	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
82	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
85	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
86	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
87	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
88	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
89	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	88	Acast	89
90	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
91	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
92	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
93	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	47	Podbean	58
94	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
95	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
97	UFO - Extraterrestrial Reality	James Quirk	Society & Culture	919	Spotify for Podcasters	32
98	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	323	Simplecast	53
99	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
100	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42

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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