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 Apr 2025

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04/12/2025

Average data

Episodes: 205

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:43:48

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (13 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (21 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (6 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	699	Megaphone	53
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	441	Acast	74
8	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
9	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
11	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
12	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
15	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	406	Megaphone	63
16	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
17	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
18	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
19	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	304	Megaphone	42
21	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	32
24	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
25	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	32
26	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
27	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
28	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
29	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
30	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	54	BBC	58
31	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	350	ART19	68
32	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
33	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
34	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
35	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	34	BBC	58
36	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
37	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
38	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	411	BBC	28
39	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
40	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
41	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
42	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
43	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
44	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
45	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
46	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
47	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
48	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
49	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
50	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
51	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
52	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
53	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
54	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
55	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
56	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
57	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
58	posh unfiltered	Peterborough United/Podcast Lounge	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
59	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	512	BBC	28
60	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
61	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	142	Captivate	79
62	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
63	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
65	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
68	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
69	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
70	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
71	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
72	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
73	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	639	Acast	69
74	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
75	Privateer Station: War In Ukraine	Privateer	Society & Culture	491	Spreaker	53
76	Mystery Archives Episodes	Mystery Archives Episodes	Society & Culture	112	Spotify for Podcasters	48
77	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	400	Buzzsprout	83
80	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	426	RedCircle	59
81	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
82	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
83	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
84	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
85	Top Comment	BBC	News	98	BBC	48
86	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
87	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
88	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
90	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
91	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
92	In It Together: The Joint Enterprise Podcast	Maxine Peake	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
93	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
94	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
95	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
96	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
97	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	695	BBC	28
98	Different with Nicky Campbell	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	69	BBC	28
99	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
100	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63

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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