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 Jul 2026

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07/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 184

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:40:20

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (10 shows)

4. Megaphone (10 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
3	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
6	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
9	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	236	Acast	43
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
15	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
16	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
19	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
20	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
22	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
24	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
25	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
26	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
29	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
30	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	45	Spotify for Podcasters	27
31	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
32	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
33	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
34	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
35	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
37	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
38	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
39	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
40	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
41	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
42	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
43	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
44	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
45	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
46	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
47	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
48	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
49	Real Unexplained Stories	Real Unexplained Stories	Society & Culture	16	Buzzsprout	73
50	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
52	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
53	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
54	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
55	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
56	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
57	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
58	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	83	Acast	74
59	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
60	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
61	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
64	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
65	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
66	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
67	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
68	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
69	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
70	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
71	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
72	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
73	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
74	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
75	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
76	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
77	The Cows Are Mad	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	39
78	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
79	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
80	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
81	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	66	Captivate	69
82	Woman Overboard	Katherine Sutherland	Society & Culture	3	Acast	49
83	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
84	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
85	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
86	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
87	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
88	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	33	Libsyn	68
89	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	160	Libsyn	72
90	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
91	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	327	Simplecast	53
92	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
93	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
94	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
95	The Scottish paranormal podcast’s Podcast	Chris SPP	Society & Culture	73	Podbean	37
96	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
97	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
98	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
99	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
100	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69

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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