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 Oct 2026

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10/08/2026

Average data

Episodes: 167

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:42:14

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. BBC (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	4	Acast	69
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	108	BBC	38
3	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
4	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
5	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
7	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
8	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
9	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
10	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	73
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	229	Acast	43
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	445	Acast	74
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
15	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	79
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
18	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
19	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	264	WideOrbit	48
20	PSNI Beyond the Badge	Police Service of Northern Ireland	Society & Culture	1	Podbean	58
21	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
22	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
23	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
24	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	413	BBC	28
25	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
29	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
30	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1197	Acast	59
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
32	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
33	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
34	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	515	BBC	28
35	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
36	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
37	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
38	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
39	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
40	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	87	Spotify for Podcasters	32
41	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
42	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	51	Acast	94
43	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
44	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
46	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
47	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
48	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
49	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
50	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
51	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
52	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
53	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	164	Omny Studio	69
54	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
55	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
56	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
57	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	303	WideOrbit	68
58	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
59	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
60	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	98	Omny Studio	89
61	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
64	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
65	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
66	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
67	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
68	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	194	Simplecast	58
69	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
72	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
73	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	87	Unknown	63
74	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	653	Acast	69
75	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
76	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
77	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	79	Spreaker	43
78	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
79	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
80	Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	104	Substack	32
81	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
82	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	80	Acast	74
83	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
84	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
85	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	36	Omny Studio	83
86	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	85	Spotify for Podcasters	52
87	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
88	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
89	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
90	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
91	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
92	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
93	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	431	Audioboom	48
94	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
95	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
96	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	152	Spotify for Podcasters	52
97	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
98	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
99	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
100	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42

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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