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 Sep 2025

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09/18/2025

Average data

Episodes: 192

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:44:14

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (4 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
3	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
5	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
6	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
7	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
9	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
10	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
13	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
17	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
18	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
19	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
21	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
22	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
23	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
25	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
26	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
27	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
28	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
29	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
30	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
31	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
32	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
33	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
34	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
35	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
36	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
37	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
39	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
40	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
41	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
42	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
44	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
45	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
46	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
47	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
48	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
49	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
50	The Stephen Howson Podcast	Stephen Howson	Society & Culture	13	Spotify for Podcasters	42
51	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
52	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
53	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
54	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
55	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
56	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
57	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
58	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
59	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
60	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
61	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	Hateland	ARD	Society & Culture	15	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	63
63	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
64	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
65	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
66	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
67	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
68	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
69	Wilson & Ashley	Wilson & Ashley	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	73
70	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
71	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
73	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
74	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
75	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
76	The National Archives Podcast Series	The National Archives	Society & Culture	549	Unknown	32
77	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
78	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
79	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	77	Acast	74
80	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
81	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
82	Obscurata \| True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories	True Crime, Mysteries, Paranormal, Unexplained, True Scary Stories	Society & Culture	66	Acast	79
83	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
84	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
85	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
86	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
87	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
88	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
89	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
90	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
91	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
92	The Haunted Objects Podcast	Planet Weird	Society & Culture	33	Megaphone	62
93	Tango Juliet Foxtrot - the police podcast	Iain Donnelly	Society & Culture	98	Podbean	37
94	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
95	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
96	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
97	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
98	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
99	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
100	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33

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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