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 Sep 2025

Country

Main category

Sub category

Date

09/14/2025

Average data

Episodes: 173

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:43:29

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. The Telegraph (3 shows)

5. BBC (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
3	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
7	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
8	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
12	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
13	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
14	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
17	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
18	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
19	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
21	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
22	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
24	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
25	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
26	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
27	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
28	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
30	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
31	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
32	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
33	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
34	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
35	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
38	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
39	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
40	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
41	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
42	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
43	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
44	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
45	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
46	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
47	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
48	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
50	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
51	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
52	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
54	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
55	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
56	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
57	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
58	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
59	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
60	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
61	Different with Nicky Campbell	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	69	BBC	28
62	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
63	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
65	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
66	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
67	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
68	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
69	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
70	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
71	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
72	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
73	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
74	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
75	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
76	The Unsettled Dead	Deborah Davies	Society & Culture	8	Podbean	53
77	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
78	The National Archives Podcast Series	The National Archives	Society & Culture	549	Unknown	32
79	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
80	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
81	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
82	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
83	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
84	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
85	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
86	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
87	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
88	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
89	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
90	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
91	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
92	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
93	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
94	Call Bethel	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	6	Acast	53
95	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
96	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
97	In It Together: The Joint Enterprise Podcast	Maxine Peake	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
98	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
99	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
100	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69

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