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 13 janv. 2026

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01/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 198

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:44:31

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
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	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
11	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
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	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
17	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
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	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
21	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
22	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
23	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
24	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
25	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
26	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
27	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
28	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
30	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
31	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
32	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
33	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
34	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
36	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
37	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
38	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
39	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
42	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
43	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
44	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
45	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
46	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
47	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
48	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
50	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
51	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
52	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
53	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
54	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
55	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
56	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
57	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	43
58	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
59	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
60	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
61	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
62	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
63	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
64	Beyond The Veil Podcast	Beyond The Veil Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	38
65	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
66	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
67	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
68	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
69	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
70	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
71	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
72	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
73	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
74	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
75	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
76	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
77	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
78	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
79	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
80	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
81	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
82	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
83	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
84	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
85	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
86	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
87	The Chunter Basha w/ Billy Billingham	Mark "Billy" Billingham	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
89	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
90	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
91	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
92	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
93	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
94	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
95	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
96	Criminal Justice Matters	The Criminal Bar Association	Society & Culture	21	Spotify for Podcasters	48
97	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
98	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
99	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
100	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64

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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