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 12 Jan 2026

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01/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 190

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:44:21

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. The Telegraph (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
4	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
6	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
11	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
14	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
15	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
16	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
17	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
18	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
20	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
21	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
22	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
23	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
24	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
25	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
26	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
28	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
29	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
30	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
31	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
32	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
34	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
35	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
36	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
39	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
40	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
41	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
42	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
43	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
44	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
45	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
46	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
47	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
48	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
49	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
50	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
51	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
52	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
53	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
54	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
55	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
57	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
58	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
59	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
60	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
62	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
63	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
64	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
65	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
66	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
67	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
68	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
69	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
70	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
71	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
72	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
73	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
74	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
75	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
76	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
77	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
78	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
79	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
80	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
81	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
82	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
83	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
84	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
85	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
86	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
87	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
88	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
89	Criminal Justice Matters	The Criminal Bar Association	Society & Culture	21	Spotify for Podcasters	48
90	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
91	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
92	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
93	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
94	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
95	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
96	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
97	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	85	Acast	89
98	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
99	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
100	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69

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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