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 Sep 2025

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09/17/2025

Average data

Episodes: 198

Frequency: every 43 days

Duration: 00:43:57

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (12 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Buzzsprout (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
3	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
4	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
7	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
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	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
15	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
17	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
18	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
21	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
22	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
23	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
24	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
26	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
27	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
28	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
29	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
30	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
32	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
33	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
36	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
38	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
39	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
40	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
41	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
42	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
43	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
44	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
45	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
46	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
47	The Stephen Howson Podcast	Stephen Howson	Society & Culture	13	Spotify for Podcasters	42
48	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
49	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
50	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
51	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
52	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
53	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
54	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
55	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
56	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
57	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
58	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
59	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
60	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
61	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
63	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
64	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
65	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
66	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
67	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
68	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
69	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
70	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
71	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
72	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
73	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
74	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
75	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
76	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
77	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
78	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
79	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
80	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
81	Hateland	ARD	Society & Culture	15	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	63
82	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
83	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
84	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
85	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
86	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
87	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
88	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
89	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
90	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
91	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
92	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
93	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
94	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
95	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
96	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
97	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
98	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
99	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
100	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69

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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