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 May 2026

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05/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 161

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:41:24

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
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	705	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	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
13	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
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	526	ART19	68
20	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
21	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
22	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
24	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
25	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
26	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
27	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
31	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
32	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
33	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
34	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
35	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
36	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
37	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
38	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
39	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
40	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
41	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
42	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
43	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
46	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
47	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
48	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
49	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
50	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
51	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
52	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
53	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
55	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
56	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
57	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
58	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
59	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
60	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
61	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
62	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
63	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
64	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
65	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
66	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
67	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
68	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
69	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
70	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
73	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
74	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
75	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
76	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
77	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
78	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
79	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
80	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
81	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
82	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
85	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
86	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
87	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
88	History of the Hungarians	Ferenc Hüvös	Society & Culture	37	Spotify for Podcasters	22
89	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
90	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
91	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
92	Czarnobyl. Prawdziwa historia	Polskie Radio S.A.	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	43
93	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
94	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
95	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
96	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
97	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
98	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
99	Class Divide	Class Divide	Society & Culture	25	Acast	84
100	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	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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