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 mai 2026

Country

Main category

Sub category

Date

05/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:40:50

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Al Jazeera Network (3 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
7	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
9	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
11	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
14	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
16	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
18	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
21	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
22	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
24	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
25	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
26	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
27	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
28	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
29	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
30	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
31	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
32	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
33	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
34	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
35	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
36	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
37	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
40	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
41	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
42	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
43	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
44	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
45	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
46	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
47	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
48	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
49	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
51	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
52	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
53	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
54	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
56	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
57	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
58	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
59	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
60	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
61	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
62	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
63	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
64	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
65	Someone's gotta do it	Callan	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	63
66	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
67	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
68	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
69	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
70	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
71	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
72	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
73	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
74	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
75	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
76	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
77	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
78	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
79	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
80	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
81	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
82	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
83	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
84	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
85	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
86	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
87	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
88	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
89	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
90	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
91	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
92	History of the Hungarians	Ferenc Hüvös	Society & Culture	37	Spotify for Podcasters	22
93	Wilder Podcast	Grange Project	Science	54	Captivate	83
94	Class Divide	Class Divide	Society & Culture	25	Acast	84
95	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
96	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
97	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
98	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
99	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
100	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79

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.
Explore more data on podcast rankings by diving into other categories and countries, and stay ahead in the ever-changing podcast scene.

Previous charts Next charts

About Methodology Contact Support me Privacy Policy Legal Notice