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 Jun 2026

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06/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 25 days

Duration: 00:41:46

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Omny Studio (12 shows)

4. Megaphone (11 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	69
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
3	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
4	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
5	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	823	Megaphone	53
8	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	456	Acast	74
10	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1008	Simplecast	38
15	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
21	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	380	Spreaker	84
22	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
24	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
25	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	85	Spotify for Podcasters	32
26	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
27	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
30	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	513	BBC	28
31	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
32	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
33	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
34	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
35	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
36	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
37	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	230	PRX	79
39	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
40	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
41	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
42	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	369	Megaphone	43
43	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
44	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	40	BBC	58
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
47	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
48	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
49	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
50	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
51	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1068	Acast	69
52	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
53	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	219	Acast	79
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
56	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
57	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	977	Megaphone	52
58	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
59	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
60	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	161	Omny Studio	69
61	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
62	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
63	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
64	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
65	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
66	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
67	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
68	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
69	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
70	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
71	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
72	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
73	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
74	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
75	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
76	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
79	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
80	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	68
81	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
82	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
83	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
84	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
85	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	27	Libsyn	73
86	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
87	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	264	Acast	69
88	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	430	Audioboom	48
89	Fiction Prescriptions	WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund	Society & Culture	5	Unknown	43
90	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
91	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	30	RSS.com	68
92	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
93	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
94	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
95	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	86	Acast	89
96	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
97	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	27
98	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	525	Spreaker	43
99	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
100	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	18	ART19	73

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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