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 Aug 2025

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08/14/2025

Average data

Episodes: 186

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:44:55

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (30 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
3	Top Comment	BBC	News	103	BBC	48
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
5	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
6	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
9	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
10	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
14	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
18	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
19	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	32	Libsyn	68
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
22	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
23	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
26	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
27	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
28	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
29	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
30	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
31	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
32	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
33	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
34	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	673	Acast	69
35	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
36	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
37	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
38	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
40	The Last Soviet	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	59
41	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
42	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
43	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
44	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
45	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
46	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
47	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
48	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
49	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
50	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	64	Captivate	69
51	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
52	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
53	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
54	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
55	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
56	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
57	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
58	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
59	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	102	Acast	59
60	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
61	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
62	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
63	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
64	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
65	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	114	Spotify for Podcasters	42
66	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
67	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	455	RedCircle	59
68	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	147	Captivate	79
69	Holiday Parks Uncovered - The Podcast	Holiday Parks Uncovered	Society & Culture	18	RSS.com	37
70	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
71	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
72	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
73	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
74	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
75	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	203	ART19	37
76	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
77	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
78	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
79	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
80	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	47	Omny Studio	53
81	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
82	Trapped: The IPP Prisoner Scandal	Zinc Media Group	Society & Culture	17	Acast	83
83	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf	Society & Culture	13	Acast	73
84	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	63	Libsyn	42
85	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
86	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
87	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
88	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
89	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
90	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
91	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
92	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
93	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
94	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
95	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
96	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
97	7 metrów pod ziemią	Rafał Gębura	Society & Culture	271	Spotify for Podcasters	28
98	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
99	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
100	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42

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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