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 May 2026

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05/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 173

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:40:48

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	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	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
7	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
8	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
11	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
13	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
14	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
15	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
20	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
21	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
22	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
23	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
24	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
25	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
26	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
27	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
30	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	32
31	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	16	BBC	63
32	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
33	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
36	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
38	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
39	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
40	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
41	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
42	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
43	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
44	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	701	BBC	28
45	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
46	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
47	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
48	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
49	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	355	Simplecast	78
50	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
51	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
52	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	677	Acast	69
53	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
54	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
55	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
57	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
58	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
59	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
60	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
61	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
62	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
63	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
64	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
65	Romp	Murry	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	53
66	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
67	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
68	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
69	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
70	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
71	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
72	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
73	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
74	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
75	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
76	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	33	Libsyn	68
77	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
78	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
79	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
80	Squarely Speaking	Northumberland Freemasons	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	58
81	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
82	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
83	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
84	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
85	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
86	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
87	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
88	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
89	Patient 11	Sky News	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	59
90	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
91	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	45	Spotify for Podcasters	27
92	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	66	Captivate	69
93	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
94	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
95	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
96	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
97	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
98	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	327	Simplecast	53
99	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	28	Libsyn	58
100	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	160	Libsyn	72

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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