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 09 Jan 2026

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01/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 199

Frequency: every 44 days

Duration: 00:44:49

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spreaker (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
4	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
6	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
7	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
11	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
14	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
17	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
19	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
20	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
21	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
23	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
24	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
25	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
26	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
28	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
29	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
30	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
31	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
32	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
34	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
36	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
38	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
39	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
40	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
41	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
43	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
44	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
45	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
46	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
47	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
48	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
49	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
50	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
51	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
52	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
55	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
56	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
57	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
58	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
59	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
60	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
61	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
62	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
63	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
64	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
65	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
66	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
69	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
70	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
71	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
72	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
73	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
74	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
75	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
76	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
77	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
78	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	30	RSS.com	68
79	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
80	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
81	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
82	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
83	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
84	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
85	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
86	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	85	Acast	89
87	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
88	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
89	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
90	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
91	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
92	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
93	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
94	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
95	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
96	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
97	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
98	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
99	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
100	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79

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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