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 Nov 2025

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11/14/2025

Average data

Episodes: 208

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:45:13

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
3	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
7	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
8	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
11	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
14	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
17	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
18	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
21	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
23	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
24	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
25	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
26	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
27	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
28	Heweliusz. Prawdziwa historia	Polskie Radio S.A.	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	43
29	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
30	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
31	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
32	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
33	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
35	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
36	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
37	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
38	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
39	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
40	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
41	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
42	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
43	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
47	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
48	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
49	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
50	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
53	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
54	Visionaries	unknown_author	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	48
55	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
57	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
58	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
59	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
60	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
61	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
62	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
63	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
64	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
65	Witness: Sex, Lies and Streaming	news.com.au	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	89
66	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
67	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
68	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
69	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
70	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
71	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
72	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
73	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
74	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
75	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
76	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
77	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
78	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
79	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
80	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
81	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
82	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
83	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
84	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	323	Simplecast	53
85	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
86	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	430	Audioboom	48
87	Exeter Stories	Paul Batterham	Society & Culture	6	RSS.com	73
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
89	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
90	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
91	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
92	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	99	Acast	59
93	Geography Matters	Chris Hamnett	Society & Culture	36	Captivate	79
94	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
95	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
96	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	88	Acast	89
97	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
98	Deborah Hatswell. BBR Investigations. Cryptids, Paranormal & Unexplained Events	Being Believed Investigations	Society & Culture	312	Spreaker	53
99	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
100	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38

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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