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 Jun 2026

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06/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:40:19

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (12 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	170	BBC	38
3	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
4	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
9	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
10	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
11	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
13	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
14	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
15	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
16	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
19	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
20	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
21	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
22	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
26	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
27	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
28	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
29	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
30	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
31	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
33	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
34	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
36	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
37	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
38	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
39	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
40	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
42	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
43	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
45	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
46	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
47	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
48	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
49	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
50	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
51	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
52	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
53	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
54	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
55	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
56	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
57	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
58	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
59	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
60	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
61	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
64	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
65	Patient 11	Sky News	True Crime	6	Spreaker	64
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
67	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
68	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
69	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
70	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
71	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
72	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
73	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
74	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
75	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
76	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	123	Buzzsprout	53
77	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
79	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
80	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
81	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
82	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
83	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
84	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
85	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
86	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
87	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
88	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
89	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
90	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
91	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
92	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
93	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
94	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
95	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
96	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
97	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
98	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
99	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
100	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78

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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