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 août 2026

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08/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:39:53

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
5	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
8	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
9	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
13	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
17	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
22	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
23	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
24	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
25	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
26	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
29	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
30	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
31	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
32	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
33	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
34	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
35	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
36	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
37	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
38	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
39	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
40	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
41	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
42	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
43	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
44	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
45	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
46	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
47	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
48	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
49	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
50	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
51	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
52	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
53	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
55	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
56	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
57	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
58	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
59	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
60	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
61	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
62	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
63	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
64	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
65	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
66	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
67	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
68	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
69	Griftonomics	Griftonomics	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	32
70	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
71	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
72	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
73	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
74	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
75	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
76	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
77	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
78	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
79	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
80	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
81	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
82	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
83	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
84	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
85	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
86	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	159	Simplecast	73
87	UFO - Extraterrestrial Reality	James Quirk	Society & Culture	919	Spotify for Podcasters	32
88	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	81	Spotify for Podcasters	52
89	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
90	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
91	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
92	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
93	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
94	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
95	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
96	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
97	Criminal Justice Matters	The Criminal Bar Association	Society & Culture	21	Spotify for Podcasters	48
98	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
99	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
100	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	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.

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