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 Oct 2025

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10/16/2025

Average data

Episodes: 210

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:45:12

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
5	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
9	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
12	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
14	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
15	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
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	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
20	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
21	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
22	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
23	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
25	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
26	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
27	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
28	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
30	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
32	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
34	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
35	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
36	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
37	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
38	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
39	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
40	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
41	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
42	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
43	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
44	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
45	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
46	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
47	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
48	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
49	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
50	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
52	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
53	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
54	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
55	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
56	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
57	The Stephen Howson Podcast	Stephen Howson	Society & Culture	13	Spotify for Podcasters	42
58	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
59	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
60	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
61	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
62	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
63	Nieświęty	Anna Sobolewska - Radio TOK FM	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
65	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
67	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
68	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
69	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
70	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
71	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
72	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
73	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
74	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
75	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
76	Witness: Sex, Lies and Streaming	news.com.au	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	89
77	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	77	Acast	74
78	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
79	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	395	Buzzsprout	83
80	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
81	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
82	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
83	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
84	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
85	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
86	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
87	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
88	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
89	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
90	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
91	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
92	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
93	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
94	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
95	ALIEN THEORISTS THEORIZING	Big Theory Podcasts	Society & Culture	550	RedCircle	49
96	UFO - Extraterrestrial Reality	James Quirk	Society & Culture	919	Spotify for Podcasters	32
97	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
98	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
99	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
100	Geography Matters	Chris Hamnett	Society & Culture	28	Captivate	79

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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