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 Jun 2026

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06/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 149

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:40:41

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
2	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
3	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	122	BBC	38
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
7	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
11	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
12	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	233	Acast	43
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
14	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
17	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
18	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
19	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
21	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
22	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
23	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
26	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1203	Acast	59
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
28	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	32
29	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
30	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
31	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
33	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
34	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
36	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
37	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
38	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
39	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
40	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
41	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
42	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
43	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	53	Acast	94
44	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
45	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
46	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
47	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
48	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
49	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	202	ART19	37
50	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
51	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
52	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
54	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
55	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
56	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
57	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	79
58	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
59	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
60	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
62	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
64	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
65	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	667	Acast	69
66	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
67	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
68	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
69	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
70	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
71	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
72	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
73	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	433	Audioboom	48
74	NRC Uitgelicht: Koekoekskind	NRC	Society & Culture	30	ART19	83
75	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
76	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
77	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
78	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
79	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	516	BBC	28
80	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
81	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
82	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
83	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
84	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
85	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
86	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	699	BBC	28
87	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
88	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
89	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
90	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
91	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
92	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	35	RSS.com	68
93	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	52
94	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
95	The Obit Project	Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	59
96	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
97	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
98	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
99	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	45	Spotify for Podcasters	27
100	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59

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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