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 août 2025

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08/07/2025

Average data

Episodes: 186

Frequency: every 47 days

Duration: 00:40:08

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Megaphone (11 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	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	439	Acast	74
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	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	937	Simplecast	38
11	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
12	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	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	302	Megaphone	42
15	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
16	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
21	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
23	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
25	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
26	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
27	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
28	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
29	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
30	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
31	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	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	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
37	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
38	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
39	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
40	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
41	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
42	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
43	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	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 \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	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	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
55	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
56	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
57	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
58	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
59	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
60	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
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	187	PRX	79
64	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
65	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	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	23	American Public Media	62
69	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
70	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
71	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
72	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	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	96	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 \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
79	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	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	87	Libsyn	62
84	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	490	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	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
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	522	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 : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
93	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	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	159	Libsyn	78
96	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
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	267	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.

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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