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 2026

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06/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 186

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:41:17

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Sky News (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	106	BBC	38
3	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
4	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	702	Megaphone	53
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	445	Acast	74
8	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
9	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
11	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
13	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
14	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
20	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
22	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	263	WideOrbit	48
23	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	73
24	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
25	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
26	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	51	Acast	94
27	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
28	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
29	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
30	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
31	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	515	BBC	28
36	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
37	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
38	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
39	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
41	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	413	BBC	28
42	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
43	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	197	ART19	37
44	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
45	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
46	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
47	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
48	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	23	ART19	73
49	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
50	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
51	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
52	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
54	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
55	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
56	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
57	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
58	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
59	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
60	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
61	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
62	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
63	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
64	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
65	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	651	Acast	69
66	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
67	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
68	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
69	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
70	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	125	Buzzsprout	53
71	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
72	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
73	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
74	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
75	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
76	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
77	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
78	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
79	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	431	Audioboom	48
80	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
81	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
82	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
83	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
84	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
85	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
86	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	98	Omny Studio	89
87	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	22	Captivate	73
88	Patient 11	Sky News	True Crime	6	Spreaker	64
89	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
90	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
91	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
92	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
93	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	43
94	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
95	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	163	Omny Studio	69
96	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
97	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
98	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
99	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	323	Simplecast	53
100	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	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.

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