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 Dec 2025

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12/10/2025

Average data

Episodes: 198

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:44:39

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 (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
2	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
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 Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
6	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
7	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
11	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
12	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
18	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
21	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
22	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
23	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
24	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
26	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
28	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
29	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
30	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
31	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
32	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
34	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
35	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
36	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
37	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
38	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
39	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
40	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
41	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
42	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
43	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
44	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
45	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
46	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
47	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
48	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
49	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
50	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
51	The Last Diagnosis	Elias Ward	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	43
52	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
56	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
57	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
58	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
59	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
60	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
61	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	30	RSS.com	68
62	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
63	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
64	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
65	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
66	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
67	Visionaries	unknown_author	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	48
68	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
69	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
70	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
71	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
72	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
73	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
74	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
75	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
76	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
77	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
78	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
79	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
80	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
81	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
82	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
83	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
84	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
85	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
86	Zero Signal	David & Jay Green	Society & Culture	32	RSS.com	83
87	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
88	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
89	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
90	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
91	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
92	Chameleon: Dr. Miracle	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	3	Megaphone	63
93	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
94	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
95	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
96	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
97	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
98	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
99	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
100	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	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.

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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