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 Mar 2026

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03/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:43:08

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. BBC (19 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Buzzsprout (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	123	BBC	38
6	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	450	Acast	74
8	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
9	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
13	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
17	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
18	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
19	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
20	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
22	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
23	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1204	Acast	59
24	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
27	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
28	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
29	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
30	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
31	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	53	Acast	94
32	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
33	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
34	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
35	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
36	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
38	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
39	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
40	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
41	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
42	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
43	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
44	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
45	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
46	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
48	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
49	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
50	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
54	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
55	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
56	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
57	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
58	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	516	BBC	28
59	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
60	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
61	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
62	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
63	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
64	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
65	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
66	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
67	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
68	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
69	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
70	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	52
71	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
72	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
73	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
74	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
75	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
76	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
77	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
78	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	79
79	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
80	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	22	Spreaker	43
82	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	147	Captivate	79
83	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
84	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
85	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
86	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	202	ART19	37
87	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	61	Captivate	69
88	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
89	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	35	RSS.com	68
90	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	28	Libsyn	58
91	Different with Nicky Campbell	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	69	BBC	28
92	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	18	Acast	90
93	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	12	Spreaker	43
94	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
95	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
96	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
97	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
98	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
99	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	699	BBC	28
100	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	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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