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 2026

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09/14/2026

Average data

Episodes: 177

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:39:17

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. Jack Laurence (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
13	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
15	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
16	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
19	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
21	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
26	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
27	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
28	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
29	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
30	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
31	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
32	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
34	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
35	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
36	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
37	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
38	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
39	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
40	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
41	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
42	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
43	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
44	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
45	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
47	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	300	WideOrbit	68
48	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
49	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
50	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
51	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
52	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
53	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
54	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
55	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
56	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
57	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
58	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
59	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
60	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
61	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	81	Spotify for Podcasters	52
62	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
63	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
64	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
65	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
66	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
67	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
68	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
69	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
72	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
73	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
74	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	27
75	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
76	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
77	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
78	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	188	Simplecast	58
79	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
80	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
81	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
82	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
83	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
84	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
85	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
86	Grace For Impact	Peoples Media	Society & Culture	76	Acast	94
87	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
88	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
89	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
90	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	85	Acast	89
91	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
92	Admissible: Shreds of Evidence	VPM & Story Mechanics	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	53
93	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
94	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
95	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
96	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
97	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
98	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
99	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
100	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84

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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