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 14 Apr 2026

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04/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 168

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:43:39

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
5	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
7	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
8	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
10	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
11	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
16	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
20	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
21	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
23	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
25	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
26	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
27	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
28	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
29	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
30	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
31	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
33	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
34	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
35	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
36	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
37	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
38	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
39	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
40	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
41	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
42	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
43	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
44	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
45	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
46	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
47	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
48	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
49	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
50	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
51	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
52	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
53	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
54	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
55	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
56	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
57	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
58	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
59	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
60	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
61	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
62	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
63	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
64	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
65	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
66	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
67	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
68	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
72	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
73	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
74	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
75	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
76	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
77	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
78	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
79	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
80	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	28	Libsyn	58
81	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	33	Libsyn	68
82	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
85	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
86	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
87	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
88	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
89	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
90	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
91	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	83	Acast	74
92	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
93	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
94	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
95	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
96	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	66	Captivate	69
97	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
98	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
99	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
100	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	530	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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