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 19 Jan 2026

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01/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:40:48

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. The Telegraph (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
4	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
10	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
13	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
19	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
20	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
21	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
22	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
23	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
24	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
25	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
26	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
27	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
30	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
31	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
32	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
33	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
34	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
35	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
36	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
38	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
39	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
40	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
41	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
42	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
43	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
44	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
45	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
46	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
48	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
51	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
52	White Men Can't Work!	Tim Samuels	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
53	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
54	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
55	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
56	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
57	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
58	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
63	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
64	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
65	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
66	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
67	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
68	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
69	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
70	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
71	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
72	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
73	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
74	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
75	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
76	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
77	You Look Like Me	Louise McLoughlin	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	53
78	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
79	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
80	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
81	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
82	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
83	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
84	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
85	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	30	RSS.com	68
86	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
87	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
88	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
89	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
90	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
91	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
92	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
93	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
94	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
95	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
96	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
97	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
98	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
99	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
100	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79

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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