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 Jun 2026

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06/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 157

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:40:32

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Sky News (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
3	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
8	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
11	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
13	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
18	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
20	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
21	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
23	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
24	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
25	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
26	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	32
27	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
30	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
31	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
33	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
35	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
36	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
38	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
39	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
40	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	200	ART19	37
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
42	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
43	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	52	Acast	94
44	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
45	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
47	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
48	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
49	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
50	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	699	BBC	28
51	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
52	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
53	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
54	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
55	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
57	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
58	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
59	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
60	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	79
61	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	516	BBC	28
62	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
63	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
64	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
65	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
66	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
67	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	99	Omny Studio	89
68	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
69	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
70	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
71	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
72	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
73	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
74	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
75	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	663	Acast	69
76	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
77	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
78	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
79	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
80	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
81	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
82	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
83	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
84	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	432	Audioboom	48
85	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
86	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
87	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
88	Fighting Crime	Arnold Ventures	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	58
89	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
90	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	325	Simplecast	53
91	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
92	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
93	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
94	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
95	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	57	Captivate	69
96	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
97	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
98	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
99	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	150	Simplecast	73
100	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	528	Spreaker	43

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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