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 Nov 2025

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11/18/2025

Average data

Episodes: 207

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:45:54

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. CBC (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
12	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
14	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
15	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
17	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
18	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
19	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
21	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
22	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
23	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
25	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
26	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
27	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
28	Top Comment	BBC	News	103	BBC	48
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
30	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
32	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
33	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
35	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
36	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
37	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
38	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
39	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
40	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
41	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
42	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
43	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
44	Heweliusz. Prawdziwa historia	Polskie Radio S.A.	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	38
45	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
46	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
47	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	35	RSS.com	68
48	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
49	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
50	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
52	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	65	Captivate	69
53	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
54	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
55	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
56	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
57	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	33	Libsyn	68
58	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
59	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
60	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
61	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
62	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
63	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
64	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
65	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
66	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
67	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
68	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
69	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
70	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
71	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
72	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	326	Simplecast	53
73	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
74	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
75	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
76	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
77	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
80	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
81	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
82	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
84	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
85	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
86	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
87	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
88	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
89	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
90	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
91	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
92	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
93	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
94	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
95	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
96	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
97	Witness: Sex, Lies and Streaming	news.com.au	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	89
98	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
99	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
100	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74

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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