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 Aug 2026

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08/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 165

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:39:58

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (8 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	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
4	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	110	BBC	38
7	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	446	Acast	74
10	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	73
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
13	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
14	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
17	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
23	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
24	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	230	Acast	43
25	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	309	Megaphone	42
26	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
27	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
28	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
29	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
30	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1198	Acast	59
31	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	438	Megaphone	32
32	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
33	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
34	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	51	Acast	94
35	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
36	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
38	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
39	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
41	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
42	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	264	WideOrbit	48
43	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	198	ART19	37
44	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	515	BBC	28
45	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	53	Captivate	69
46	Criminal Justice Matters	The Criminal Bar Association	Society & Culture	21	Spotify for Podcasters	48
47	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
49	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
50	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	32
51	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
52	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
53	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
55	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
56	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
57	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
58	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
59	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
60	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
61	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
63	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
64	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
65	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	413	BBC	28
66	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
67	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	87	Unknown	63
68	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	164	Omny Studio	69
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
71	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
72	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	351	Simplecast	78
73	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	85	Spotify for Podcasters	52
74	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
75	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
76	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	152	Spotify for Podcasters	52
77	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
78	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
79	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	194	Simplecast	58
80	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
81	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
82	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	23	Captivate	73
85	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
86	Coffeehouse Crime	Coffeehouse Crime	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	49
87	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
88	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
89	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
90	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	36	Omny Studio	83
91	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
92	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
93	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
94	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	655	Acast	69
95	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	64
96	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
97	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
98	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
99	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	163	Simplecast	63
100	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69

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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