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 16 May 2026

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05/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:42:04

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (12 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
5	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
6	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
7	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
10	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
11	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
12	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
18	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
19	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
20	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
21	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
24	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
25	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	350	ART19	68
26	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
27	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
28	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
29	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
30	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
32	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
33	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	83	Spotify for Podcasters	32
34	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
35	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
36	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
37	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	195	Spotify for Podcasters	27
38	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
39	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
40	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
41	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
42	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
43	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
44	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
45	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
46	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
47	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
48	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
49	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
52	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
54	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
55	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
56	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
57	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
58	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
61	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
62	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
63	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
64	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
65	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
66	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
67	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
68	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
69	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	33	Omny Studio	83
70	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	158	Omny Studio	69
71	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
72	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
73	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
74	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
75	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
76	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
77	Money Trauma	Miho Soon	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	43
78	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
79	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
80	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
81	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
82	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
83	History of the Hungarians	Ferenc Hüvös	Society & Culture	37	Spotify for Podcasters	22
84	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
85	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
86	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
87	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	66	Spreaker	43
88	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
89	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
90	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
91	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
92	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
93	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
94	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
95	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
96	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
97	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
98	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
99	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
100	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	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.

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