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 18 May 2026

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05/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 179

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:43:34

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
2	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
5	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
6	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
7	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
10	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
11	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
14	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
15	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
16	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
19	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
20	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
21	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
22	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
23	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
24	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
25	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
26	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
27	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
28	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
30	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
31	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	16	BBC	63
32	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
33	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
34	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	32
35	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
36	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
37	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	701	BBC	28
38	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
40	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
41	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
42	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
43	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
44	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
46	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
47	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
49	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
50	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	355	Simplecast	78
51	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
52	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
53	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	677	Acast	69
54	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
55	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
56	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
57	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
58	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
59	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
60	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
61	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
62	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
63	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
64	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
65	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
66	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
67	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
68	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
69	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
70	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
71	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
72	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
73	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
74	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
75	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
77	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	SOUNDS LIKE STRETFORD	Common Arts	Society & Culture	5	Transistor	53
80	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
81	Romp	Murry	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	53
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
84	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
85	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
86	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	327	Simplecast	53
87	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	66	Captivate	69
88	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
89	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	160	Libsyn	72
90	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	45	Spotify for Podcasters	27
91	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
92	Danni Irreversibili - Il Caso Michael Jackson	Vois con Roberta Lippi e Lorenzo Brillo	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	48
93	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
94	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
95	Squarely Speaking	Northumberland Freemasons	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	58
96	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
97	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
98	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	28	Libsyn	58
99	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
100	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53

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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