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 sept. 2026

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09/18/2026

Average data

Episodes: 183

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:41:42

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

3. Sky News (2 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (12 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
7	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
9	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	224	Acast	43
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
12	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	259	WideOrbit	48
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
14	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
21	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
22	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
23	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
24	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
25	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	32
26	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
27	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	1	Unknown	63
28	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
30	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
31	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
32	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
33	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
34	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
35	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
36	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
37	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
38	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
39	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
40	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	64	Acast	83
41	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
43	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
44	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
45	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
46	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
47	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
48	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
49	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
50	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	33	Omny Studio	83
51	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
52	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
53	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	195	Spotify for Podcasters	27
54	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
55	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	190	Simplecast	58
56	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
57	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	158	Omny Studio	69
58	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
59	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
60	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
61	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	83	Unknown	63
62	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
63	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
64	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
65	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
66	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	301	WideOrbit	68
67	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
68	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
69	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
70	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
71	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
72	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
73	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
74	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
75	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
76	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
77	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
78	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
79	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
80	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
81	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
82	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
83	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
84	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	638	Acast	69
85	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
86	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
87	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
88	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
89	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
90	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
91	The Speaker	KQED	Society & Culture	2	PRX	59
92	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	348	Simplecast	78
93	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
94	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
95	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	27
96	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	523	Spreaker	43
97	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
98	Coffeehouse Crime	Coffeehouse Crime	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	49
99	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	69	Spreaker	43
100	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	52

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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