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 Aug 2026

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08/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 177

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:38:49

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
2	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	711	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	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	133	BBC	38
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	453	Acast	74
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
10	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	69	Captivate	69
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	359	ART19	68
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	946	Simplecast	38
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	315	Megaphone	42
16	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	238	Acast	43
17	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
21	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
22	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
24	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
27	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	445	Megaphone	32
29	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
30	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
31	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	31	Acast	83
32	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
33	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
34	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
35	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1209	Acast	59
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	286	Megaphone	43
37	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
38	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	153	N/A	N/A
39	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
40	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
41	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	91	Omny Studio	63
42	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	55	Acast	94
43	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
44	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
45	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	206	ART19	37
46	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	518	BBC	28
47	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	32
48	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	59	PRX	74
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
50	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
51	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
52	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
53	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
54	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
55	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
56	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	168	Acast	69
57	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
58	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	417	BBC	28
61	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
62	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
63	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	95	Libsyn	62
64	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
65	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	356	Simplecast	78
66	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
67	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
69	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
70	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	273	Spreaker	69
71	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	56	Megaphone	48
72	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
73	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
74	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
75	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	63
76	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	172	Omny Studio	69
77	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59
78	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
79	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	27	ART19	73
80	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
81	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
82	UFO - Extraterrestrial Reality	James Quirk	Society & Culture	919	Spotify for Podcasters	32
83	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
84	Griftonomics	Griftonomics	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	32
85	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	72	Acast	83
86	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
87	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
88	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	55	RedCircle	73
89	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
90	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
91	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
92	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
93	Who Robs A Banksy?	Podimo & Message Heard	Society & Culture	10	Audioboom	53
94	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	156	Spotify for Podcasters	52
95	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
96	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
97	L' Ultima Granita	Cronache Sepolte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	43
98	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
99	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	679	Acast	69
100	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	45	Spotify for Podcasters	27

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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