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 2026

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09/13/2026

Average data

Episodes: 171

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:39:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. Jack Laurence (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
2	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
3	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
11	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	301	Megaphone	42
13	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
15	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	257	WideOrbit	48
16	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
17	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
18	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
20	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	430	Megaphone	32
22	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
23	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
24	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	81	Spotify for Podcasters	32
25	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
26	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
27	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
28	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
29	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
30	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
31	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
32	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
33	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
34	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
36	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
37	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
38	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
39	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
40	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	300	WideOrbit	68
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
42	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
44	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	409	BBC	28
45	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	193	Spotify for Podcasters	27
46	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
47	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	47	Acast	94
48	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
49	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
50	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
51	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
52	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	156	Omny Studio	69
53	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
54	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
55	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
56	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
57	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
58	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
59	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
60	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
61	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
64	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
65	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
66	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
67	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
68	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
69	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
70	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
71	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
72	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
73	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
74	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
75	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
76	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
77	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
78	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	81	Spotify for Podcasters	52
79	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
80	Grace For Impact	Peoples Media	Society & Culture	76	Acast	94
81	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	19	ART19	73
82	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	85	Acast	89
83	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
84	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
85	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
86	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	62	Spreaker	43
87	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
88	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
89	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	394	Buzzsprout	83
90	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
91	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
92	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
93	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
94	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
95	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
96	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
97	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
98	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
99	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
100	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53

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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