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 Sep 2025

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09/13/2025

Average data

Episodes: 190

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:43:26

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
3	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
6	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
10	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
11	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
17	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
18	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
19	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
22	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
23	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
24	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
25	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
26	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
27	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
28	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
29	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
30	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
31	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
32	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
33	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
34	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
35	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
36	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
38	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
39	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
40	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
41	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
42	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
43	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
44	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
45	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
46	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
47	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
48	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
49	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
51	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
52	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
57	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
58	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
59	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
60	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
61	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
62	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
63	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
64	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
66	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
69	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
70	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
71	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
72	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
73	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
74	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
75	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
76	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
77	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
78	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
79	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
80	Nicht Mehr Mein Land - In der Manosphere	ARD	Society & Culture	7	Bayerischer Rundfunk	48
81	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
82	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
83	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
84	The National Archives Podcast Series	The National Archives	Society & Culture	549	Unknown	32
85	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
86	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
87	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
88	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
89	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
90	The Unsettled Dead	Deborah Davies	Society & Culture	8	Podbean	53
91	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
92	The Cows Are Mad	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	39
93	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
94	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
95	In It Together: The Joint Enterprise Podcast	Maxine Peake	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
96	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
97	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
98	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
99	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
100	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43

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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