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 Nov 2025

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11/16/2025

Average data

Episodes: 210

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:44:44

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. BBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (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	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
6	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
10	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
11	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
12	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
14	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
17	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
18	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
19	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
20	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
21	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
22	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
24	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
25	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
26	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
27	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
28	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
29	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
31	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
32	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
33	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
34	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
35	Heweliusz. Prawdziwa historia	Polskie Radio S.A.	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	43
36	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
37	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
38	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
39	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
41	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
42	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
43	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
45	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
46	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
47	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
49	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
51	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
52	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
53	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	323	Simplecast	53
54	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
55	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
56	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
58	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
59	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
60	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
61	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
62	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
63	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
64	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
65	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
66	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
67	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
68	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
69	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
70	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
71	Visionaries	unknown_author	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	48
72	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
73	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
74	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
75	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
76	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
77	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
78	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
79	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
80	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
81	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
82	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
83	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
84	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
85	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
86	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
87	Witness: Sex, Lies and Streaming	news.com.au	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	89
88	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
89	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	406	Buzzsprout	83
90	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
91	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
92	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
93	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
94	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
95	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
96	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
97	Deborah Hatswell. BBR Investigations. Cryptids, Paranormal & Unexplained Events	Being Believed Investigations	Society & Culture	312	Spreaker	53
98	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
99	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
100	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68

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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