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 10 Mar 2026

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03/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 148

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:43:32

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (19 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
3	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	118	BBC	38
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	448	Acast	74
9	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
11	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
12	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	942	Simplecast	38
14	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
17	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
18	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
19	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
20	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
21	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	440	Megaphone	32
23	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	52	Acast	94
24	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
26	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
27	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
28	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
29	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
30	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
31	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
32	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	699	BBC	28
33	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
34	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
35	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
36	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
37	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
38	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	32
39	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
40	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
41	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	145	Captivate	79
42	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	89	Spreaker	43
43	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
44	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
45	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
46	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
47	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
48	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
49	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
50	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
51	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
52	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
53	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
55	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
56	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
57	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
58	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	34	RSS.com	68
59	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
60	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
61	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
62	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
63	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
64	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
65	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	516	BBC	28
66	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
67	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
68	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
69	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
70	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
71	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
72	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
73	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
74	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
75	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
76	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
77	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
78	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
79	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
80	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
81	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
82	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
83	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	27	Libsyn	73
84	Different with Nicky Campbell	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	69	BBC	28
85	Alice in Wanderland	Alice Morrison	Society & Culture	110	Simplecast	63
86	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
87	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
88	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	99	Omny Studio	89
89	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
90	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
91	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
92	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
93	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
94	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
95	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
96	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
97	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
98	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	432	Audioboom	48
99	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
100	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	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.

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