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 2026

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08/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 137

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:37:24

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Megaphone (9 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	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
3	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
8	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
9	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
11	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
15	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
17	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
21	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
22	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
25	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
27	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
28	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
29	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
30	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
31	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
32	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
33	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
36	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
38	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
40	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
41	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
42	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
43	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
44	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
45	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
46	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
47	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
48	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
49	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
50	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
51	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
52	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
53	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
54	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
55	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
56	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
57	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
58	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
59	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
60	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
61	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
62	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
63	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
64	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
65	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
66	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
67	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
68	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
70	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
71	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
72	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
73	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
74	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
75	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
76	L' Ultima Granita	Cronache Sepolte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	43
77	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
78	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
79	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
80	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
81	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
82	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
83	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
84	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
85	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
86	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
87	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
88	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
89	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
90	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
91	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
92	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
93	The Cows Are Mad	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	39
94	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
95	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
96	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
97	Who Robs A Banksy?	Podimo & Message Heard	Society & Culture	10	Audioboom	53
98	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
99	Griftonomics	Griftonomics	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	32
100	The Agent	Imperative Entertainment	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	59

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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