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 Oct 2026

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10/11/2026

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:43:29

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (31 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (13 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. Omny Studio (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	120	BBC	38
3	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
4	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
5	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
6	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
8	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
9	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
10	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
13	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
14	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
16	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	268	WideOrbit	48
20	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
26	PSNI Beyond the Badge	Police Service of Northern Ireland	Society & Culture	2	Podbean	58
27	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
28	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
29	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
30	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
31	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
32	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
33	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
34	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	32
35	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
36	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
37	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
38	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
39	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
40	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
41	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
42	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
43	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
44	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	699	BBC	28
45	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
46	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
47	Deep Secrets	NOTHING TO SEE HERE INC	Society & Culture	6	RedCircle	69
48	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
49	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	53	Acast	94
50	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
51	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
52	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
53	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
54	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
55	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
57	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
58	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
59	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
60	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
61	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	167	Omny Studio	69
62	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	665	Acast	69
63	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
64	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
65	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
68	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
69	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
70	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
71	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
72	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	325	Simplecast	53
73	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
74	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
75	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
76	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	516	BBC	28
77	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
78	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
79	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
80	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	79
81	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
82	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
83	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
84	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	53	RedCircle	73
85	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	195	Simplecast	58
86	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
87	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
88	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
89	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
90	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
91	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
92	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
93	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	131	Acast	43
94	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
95	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
96	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
97	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
98	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	35	RSS.com	68
99	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
100	Pipeline	Daily Mail	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.

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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