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 juil. 2026

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07/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 153

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:40:40

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
4	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
7	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
8	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
9	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
10	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
13	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
14	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
15	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
16	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
18	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
19	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
20	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
21	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
22	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
23	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
24	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
25	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
26	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
27	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
28	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
30	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
31	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
32	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
33	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
34	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
35	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
36	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
37	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
38	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
39	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
40	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
41	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
42	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
43	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
44	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
45	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
46	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
47	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
48	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
49	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
50	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
51	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
52	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
53	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
56	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
57	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
58	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
59	Decolonial Dispatch	Decolonial Centre	Society & Culture	21	Acast	53
60	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
61	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
62	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
63	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
64	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
65	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
66	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
67	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
68	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
69	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
70	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
71	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
72	Real Unexplained Stories	Real Unexplained Stories	Society & Culture	16	Buzzsprout	73
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Under The Concrete	Ibby Alcraft and Rawnak Jassm	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	58
75	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
76	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
77	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
78	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
79	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
80	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
81	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	77	Acast	74
82	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
83	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
84	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
85	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
87	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
88	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
89	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	12	PRX	69
90	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
91	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
92	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
93	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
94	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	27
95	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
96	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
97	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
98	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
99	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
100	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	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.

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