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 Aug 2025

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08/11/2025

Average data

Episodes: 185

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:41:01

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (6 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
4	Top Comment	BBC	News	103	BBC	48
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
6	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
7	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
8	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
9	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
13	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
16	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
20	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
23	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
24	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
25	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
26	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
27	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
28	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
29	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
30	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
31	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
32	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
33	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
34	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
35	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
36	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
37	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
38	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
39	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
40	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
41	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	64	Captivate	69
42	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
43	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
44	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
45	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
46	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
47	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
48	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
51	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
52	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
54	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
55	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
56	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
57	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
58	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
59	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	114	Spotify for Podcasters	42
60	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
61	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
62	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
63	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
64	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
65	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
66	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
67	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	203	ART19	37
68	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
70	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
71	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	673	Acast	69
72	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	102	Acast	59
73	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	79
74	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	455	RedCircle	59
75	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	147	Captivate	79
76	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
77	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	160	Libsyn	72
78	The Unsettled Dead	Deborah Davies	Society & Culture	8	Podbean	53
79	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
80	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
82	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
83	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
84	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
85	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
86	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
87	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
88	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
90	Podme Dokumentär	Podme	Society & Culture	12	Podspace	53
91	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	147	Captivate	38
92	Intersections	A Human Atlas	Society & Culture	22	Libsyn	73
93	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	130	Spotify for Podcasters	38
94	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
95	Deborah Hatswell. BBR Investigations. Cryptids, Paranormal & Unexplained Events	Being Believed Investigations	Society & Culture	312	Spreaker	53
96	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
97	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
98	Life with Ghosts — LET'S CHAT!	Stephen Berkley	Society & Culture	46	Podetize	68
99	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
100	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28

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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