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 Aug 2025

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08/07/2025

Average data

Episodes: 186

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:40:02

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
5	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	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	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
11	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
12	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
15	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
16	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
18	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
20	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
21	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
23	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
25	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
26	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
27	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
28	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
29	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
31	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
32	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
33	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
34	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
35	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
36	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
37	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
38	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
40	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	66	Captivate	69
41	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
42	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
43	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	102	Acast	59
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
46	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
47	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
48	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
49	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
50	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
51	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
52	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
53	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
54	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
55	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
56	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
57	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
58	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
59	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
60	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	600	Simplecast	69
61	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
62	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
63	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
64	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
65	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
66	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
67	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
68	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
69	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	114	Spotify for Podcasters	42
70	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
71	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
72	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
73	So Disappointed Details temporarily unavailable	So Disappointed	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
74	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
75	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
76	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
77	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
78	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
79	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
80	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
81	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84
82	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
83	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
84	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
85	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
86	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
87	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
88	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
89	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
90	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
91	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
92	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	676	Acast	69
93	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
94	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
95	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	160	Libsyn	72
96	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
97	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
98	Mørklagt	DR	Society & Culture	73	Unknown	58
99	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
100	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58

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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