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 2026

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08/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:39:57

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
2	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
3	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
6	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	179	BBC	38
8	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	462	Acast	74
10	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
11	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
12	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1011	Simplecast	38
16	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	73
17	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	309	Megaphone	42
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	104	BBC	53
20	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
21	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	229	Acast	43
22	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
23	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
24	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
25	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
26	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
30	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	264	WideOrbit	48
31	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
32	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
33	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
34	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1197	Acast	59
35	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	53	Captivate	63
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
37	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
38	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
39	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	515	BBC	28
40	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	43	BBC	58
41	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
42	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
43	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
44	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
45	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	51	Acast	94
46	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	87	Spotify for Podcasters	32
47	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
48	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
49	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
50	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
51	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
52	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	104	PRX	64
53	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
54	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
55	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
56	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	413	BBC	28
57	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
58	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
61	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
62	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
63	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
64	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	198	ART19	37
65	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
66	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
67	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	205	Simplecast	58
69	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
70	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
71	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
72	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
73	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
74	Criminal Justice Matters	The Criminal Bar Association	Society & Culture	21	Spotify for Podcasters	48
75	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
76	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
77	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
78	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	87	Unknown	63
79	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
80	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
81	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
82	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	98	Omny Studio	89
83	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	164	Omny Studio	69
84	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
85	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	152	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	85	Spotify for Podcasters	52
87	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	431	Audioboom	48
88	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	23	ART19	73
89	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
90	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
91	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
92	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
93	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	653	Acast	69
94	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
95	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
96	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
97	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	80	Acast	74
98	Stealing Superman	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
99	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	125	Buzzsprout	53
100	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38

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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