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 May 2026

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05/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:41:33

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	174	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	825	Megaphone	53
5	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
6	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	461	Acast	74
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1010	Simplecast	38
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	63
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
12	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	103	BBC	53
14	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
18	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
20	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	380	Spreaker	84
21	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
22	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
23	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
24	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
25	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
27	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
28	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
29	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	222	Acast	79
31	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
33	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
34	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
35	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
37	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
38	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
39	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
40	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
41	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	42	BBC	58
42	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	43
43	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
44	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
45	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
46	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
47	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
48	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
49	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
50	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
51	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
52	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
53	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
54	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
55	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
56	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
57	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
58	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
59	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
60	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
61	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
62	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
63	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
64	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
65	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	18	ART19	63
67	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
68	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
69	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
70	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
71	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
72	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
73	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
74	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
75	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
76	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
77	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
78	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
79	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	979	Megaphone	52
80	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
81	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
82	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
83	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
84	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
85	Czarnobyl. Prawdziwa historia	Polskie Radio S.A.	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	43
86	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
87	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
88	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	27
89	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
90	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
91	The Anunnaki Connection	Jason Abadi	Society & Culture	103	Spotify for Podcasters	43
92	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
93	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
94	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	231	PRX	79
95	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	430	Audioboom	48
96	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
97	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
98	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
99	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
100	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	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.

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