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 Apr 2026

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04/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 154

Frequency: every 44 days

Duration: 00:42:44

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. ART19 (6 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	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
5	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
6	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
8	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
10	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
11	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
14	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
20	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
21	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
22	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
23	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
26	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
27	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
28	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
29	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
30	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
32	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
33	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
34	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
36	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
37	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
38	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
39	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
40	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
42	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
43	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
44	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
45	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
46	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
47	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
48	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
49	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
50	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
51	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
52	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
53	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
54	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
55	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
56	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
57	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
58	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	27	Libsyn	73
59	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
60	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
61	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
62	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
63	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
64	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
65	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
66	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	27
67	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
68	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
69	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
70	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
71	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
72	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
73	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
74	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
75	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
76	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
77	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
78	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
79	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
80	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
81	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
84	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
85	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
86	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
87	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
88	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
89	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
90	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
91	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
92	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
93	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
94	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
95	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
96	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
97	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
98	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
99	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
100	The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	7	Simplecast	58

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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