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 17 Jun 2025

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06/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 181

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:41:12

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Al Jazeera Network (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (19 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
8	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
10	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
11	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
16	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
17	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
18	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
19	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
20	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
21	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
22	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
23	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
24	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
25	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
26	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
28	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
29	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
30	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
31	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
32	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
34	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
35	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
36	White Men Can't Work!	Tim Samuels	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
37	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
38	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
39	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
40	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
41	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
42	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
45	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
46	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
47	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
48	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
49	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
50	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
51	The Unsettled Dead	Deborah Davies	Society & Culture	8	Podbean	53
52	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
54	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
55	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
56	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
57	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
58	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84
59	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
60	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
61	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
62	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
63	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
64	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
65	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
66	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
67	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
68	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
69	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
70	Trolled	Aoife Moore	Society & Culture	8	Acast	53
71	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
73	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
74	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
75	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
76	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
77	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
78	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
79	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	21	Spreaker	49
80	Young Warriors	Ali Fraser	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
81	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	77	Acast	74
82	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
83	Different with Nicky Campbell	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	69	BBC	28
84	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
85	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
86	B2B Made in Brum Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	B2B The Business Club Podcast	Society & Culture	47	N/A	N/A
87	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
89	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
90	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
91	Holiday Parks Uncovered - The Podcast	Holiday Parks Uncovered	Society & Culture	18	RSS.com	37
92	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
93	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
94	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
95	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
96	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
97	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	128	Spotify for Podcasters	38
98	UFO - Extraterrestrial Reality	James Quirk	Society & Culture	919	Spotify for Podcasters	32
99	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
100	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43

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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