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 Jul 2026

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07/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 143

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:40:13

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. The Guardian (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	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	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
8	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
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	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
14	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
15	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
18	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
19	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
20	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
21	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
22	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
23	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
24	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
25	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
26	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
27	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
28	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
29	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
30	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
31	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
32	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
33	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
34	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
35	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
36	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
37	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
38	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
39	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
40	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
41	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
42	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
43	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
46	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
47	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
48	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
49	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
50	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
51	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
52	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
53	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
54	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
55	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
56	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
57	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
58	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
59	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
60	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	27
61	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
62	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
63	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
64	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
65	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
66	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
67	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
68	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
70	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
71	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
72	Decolonial Dispatch	Decolonial Centre	Society & Culture	21	Acast	53
73	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
74	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
75	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
76	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
77	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
78	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
79	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
80	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
81	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
82	Under The Concrete	Ibby Alcraft and Rawnak Jassm	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	58
83	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
84	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
85	Real Unexplained Stories	Real Unexplained Stories	Society & Culture	16	Buzzsprout	73
86	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	77	Acast	74
87	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
88	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
89	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
90	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
91	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
92	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
93	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
94	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
95	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	189	Simplecast	58
96	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
97	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
98	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
99	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
100	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	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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