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 Jun 2026

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06/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:42:12

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
4	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
5	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
9	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
10	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
13	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
17	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
20	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
21	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
22	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
25	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
26	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
27	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
28	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
29	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
30	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
31	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
32	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
33	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
34	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
35	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
36	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
37	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
38	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
39	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
40	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
41	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
42	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
43	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
44	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
45	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
46	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
48	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
49	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
50	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
51	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
52	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
53	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
54	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
55	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
56	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
57	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
58	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
59	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
60	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
61	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
62	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
63	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
65	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
66	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
67	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
68	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
69	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
70	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
71	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
72	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
73	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
74	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
75	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
76	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
77	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
78	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
79	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
80	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
81	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
82	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
84	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
85	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
86	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
87	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
88	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
89	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	111	Ximalaya	59
90	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
91	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	27	Libsyn	73
92	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
93	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
94	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
95	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	30	RSS.com	68
96	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
97	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
98	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
99	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
100	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	430	Audioboom	48

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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