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 11 Feb 2026

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02/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:43:25

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
6	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
7	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
9	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
15	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
18	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
19	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
21	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
22	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
24	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
25	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
27	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
28	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
29	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
30	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
31	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
32	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
33	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
34	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
35	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
36	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
37	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
38	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
40	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
41	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
42	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
45	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
48	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
49	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
50	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
51	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
52	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
53	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
54	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
55	Beyond The Veil Podcast	Beyond The Veil Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	38
56	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
57	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
58	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
60	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
61	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
62	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
63	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
66	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
67	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
68	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
69	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
70	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
71	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
72	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
73	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
74	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
75	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
76	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
77	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
78	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	47	Podbean	58
79	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
80	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
81	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
82	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
83	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
84	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
85	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
86	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
87	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
88	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
89	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
90	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
91	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
92	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
93	The Last Soviet	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	59
94	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
95	Declassified	Michael Coates	Society & Culture	99	Audioboom	59
96	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
97	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
98	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
99	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
100	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	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.

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