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 2026

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08/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 161

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:39:51

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Megaphone (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
2	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
3	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
6	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	106	BBC	38
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	73
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	445	Acast	74
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
12	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
13	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
15	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
16	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
17	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
21	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
23	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
24	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
25	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
26	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
29	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
30	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
31	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
33	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
34	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
35	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
36	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	53	Captivate	63
37	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
38	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	51	Acast	94
39	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	263	WideOrbit	48
40	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
41	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
42	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
43	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	197	ART19	37
44	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
45	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
46	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
47	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
48	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
49	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
50	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
51	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
52	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
54	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
55	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
56	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	163	Omny Studio	69
57	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
58	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
59	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
60	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	413	BBC	28
61	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
63	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
64	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
65	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
66	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	515	BBC	28
67	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
68	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
70	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
71	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
72	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
73	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
74	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
75	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
76	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
77	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
78	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
79	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
80	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
81	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
82	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
83	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
84	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	98	Omny Studio	89
85	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
86	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
87	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
88	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
89	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
90	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
91	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
92	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
93	Coffeehouse Crime	Coffeehouse Crime	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	49
94	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
95	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
96	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
97	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	431	Audioboom	48
98	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
99	Criminal Justice Matters	The Criminal Bar Association	Society & Culture	21	Spotify for Podcasters	48
100	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62

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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