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 Dec 2025

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12/09/2025

Average data

Episodes: 197

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:45:51

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	697	Megaphone	53
5	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
6	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
9	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
10	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
11	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
15	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
17	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
21	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
22	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
23	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	83	Spotify for Podcasters	32
24	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
25	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
26	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
27	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
30	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
31	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
33	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
34	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
35	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
36	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
37	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
38	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
39	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
40	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
41	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
42	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
43	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
44	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
45	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
46	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
47	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
48	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
49	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
50	The Last Diagnosis	Elias Ward	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	43
51	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
52	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
53	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
54	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
55	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
56	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
57	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	30	RSS.com	68
58	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
59	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
60	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
62	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
63	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
64	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
65	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
66	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
67	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
68	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
69	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
70	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
71	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
72	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
73	Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	98	Substack	38
74	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
75	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
76	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
77	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
78	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
79	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
80	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
81	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
82	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
85	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
86	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
87	Geography Matters	Chris Hamnett	Society & Culture	28	Captivate	79
88	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
89	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
90	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
91	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
92	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
93	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
94	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
95	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
96	Zero Signal	David & Jay Green	Society & Culture	32	RSS.com	83
97	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
98	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
99	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
100	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	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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