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 Jun 2026

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06/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 167

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:42:18

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (11 shows)

4. Megaphone (11 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
3	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	120	BBC	38
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
8	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
11	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
12	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
13	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	232	Acast	43
14	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
21	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
23	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	32
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
27	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1202	Acast	59
28	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
29	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
31	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
32	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	699	BBC	28
33	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
34	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
35	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
36	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
37	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
38	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	201	ART19	37
39	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
41	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
42	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
43	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
44	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
45	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	53	Acast	94
46	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
47	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	516	BBC	28
48	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
49	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
50	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
51	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
52	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	167	Omny Studio	69
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
54	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
55	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
56	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
57	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	353	Simplecast	78
58	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
59	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
60	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
61	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
62	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	125	Buzzsprout	53
63	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
64	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
65	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
66	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
67	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
68	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
69	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
70	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
71	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	665	Acast	69
72	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
73	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
74	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
75	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
76	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
77	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	14	BBC	63
78	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
79	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
80	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
81	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
82	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
83	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
84	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
85	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
86	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
87	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
88	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
89	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
90	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
91	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
92	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
93	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	24	Captivate	73
94	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	79
95	Circle of Voices - Immersive audio documentaries & ecological sound art	Louise Romain	Society & Culture	14	Spotify for Podcasters	58
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
97	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
98	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
99	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
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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