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 08 Mar 2025

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03/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 228

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:43:46

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (12 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (19 shows)

3. Megaphone (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	151	Acast	73
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	193	BBC	38
5	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	61	Captivate	69
6	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
7	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
8	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	104	BBC	53
9	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
10	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
11	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	830	Megaphone	53
12	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	450	Acast	74
14	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
15	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1014	Simplecast	38
17	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	500	Megaphone	63
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1204	Acast	59
20	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
21	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
22	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
23	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
24	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	11	ART19	63
25	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
26	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
27	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	535	ART19	68
28	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
29	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
30	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
31	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav	Society & Culture	606	Simplecast	69
32	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	516	BBC	28
33	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	58	BBC	58
34	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
35	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
36	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
37	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
38	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	442	Megaphone	32
39	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
40	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	113	Spotify for Podcasters	42
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
43	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	106	PRX	64
44	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
45	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
46	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
47	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
48	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	98	WideOrbit	68
49	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
50	It's Reigning Men	Daniel Rosney	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
51	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	44	BBC	58
52	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
53	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
54	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
55	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	376	Megaphone	43
56	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
57	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	19	ART19	63
58	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
59	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
60	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
61	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
62	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	235	PRX	79
63	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
64	The Parting Glass	Niamh Ryan	Society & Culture	38	Acast	94
65	Top Comment	BBC	News	103	BBC	48
66	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
67	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
68	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	433	Audioboom	48
69	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
70	Privateer Station: War In Ukraine	Privateer	Society & Culture	491	Spreaker	53
71	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	101	Acast	59
72	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1100	Acast	69
73	Der Germanwings-Absturz – Zehn Jahre ohne euch \| WDR	WDR	Society & Culture	8	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	42
74	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
75	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	325	Simplecast	53
76	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	357	Spotify for Podcasters	38
77	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	79
79	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	699	BBC	28
80	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
81	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
82	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	228	Acast	79
83	Spy Valley: An Engineer's Nuclear Betrayal	Brazen	Society & Culture	15	PRX	79
84	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
85	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
86	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
87	The Vaping Fix	Wondery	Society & Culture	3	ART19	69
88	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
89	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
90	HART TO HART	HART WORKSHOP	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	48
91	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf	Society & Culture	13	Acast	73
92	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
93	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	27	Buzzsprout	42
94	UFO - Extraterrestrial Reality	James Quirk	Society & Culture	919	Spotify for Podcasters	32
95	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	384	Audion	58
96	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
97	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	147	Captivate	79
98	posh unfiltered	Peterborough United/Podcast Lounge	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
99	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
100	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	202	ART19	37

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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