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 Sep 2025

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09/08/2025

Average data

Episodes: 204

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:42:32

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
4	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
5	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
6	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
12	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
15	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
16	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
17	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
18	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
19	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
20	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
21	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
22	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
23	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
25	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
26	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
28	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
29	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
30	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
31	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
32	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
33	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
34	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
35	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
36	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	676	Acast	69
37	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
38	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
39	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
40	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	701	BBC	28
41	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
42	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
43	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
44	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
45	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
46	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
47	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
48	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
49	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	102	Acast	59
50	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	114	Spotify for Podcasters	42
51	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
52	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
55	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
56	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
57	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
58	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
59	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
60	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
61	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
62	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
63	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
64	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
65	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	66	Captivate	69
66	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
67	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
68	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
69	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
70	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
71	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
72	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
73	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
74	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
75	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
76	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
77	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
78	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
79	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
80	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
81	Cruising \| Queer History and Culture	Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jennifer McGinity	Society & Culture	92	Megaphone	58
82	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
83	Bitesized Folklore	Jodie Paterson	Society & Culture	31	Captivate	73
84	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	52	Omny Studio	48
85	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
86	Obscurata \| True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories	True Crime, Mysteries, Paranormal, Unexplained, True Scary Stories	Society & Culture	66	Acast	79
87	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
88	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	160	Libsyn	72
89	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
90	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
91	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
92	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
93	The National Archives Podcast Series	The National Archives	Society & Culture	549	Unknown	32
94	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
95	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
96	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
97	Who Robs A Banksy?	Podimo & Message Heard	Society & Culture	10	Audioboom	53
98	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
99	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	274	PRX	43
100	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	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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