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 Jun 2026

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06/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:41:38

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
3	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
4	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
8	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
10	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
11	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
12	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
13	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
14	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
17	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
22	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
23	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
26	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
28	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
30	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
31	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
32	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
33	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
34	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
35	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
36	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
38	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
39	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
40	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
41	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
42	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
43	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
44	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
45	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
47	Under The Concrete	Ibby Alcraft and Rawnak Jassm	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	58
48	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
49	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
50	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
51	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
52	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
53	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
54	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
55	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
56	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
57	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
58	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
59	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
60	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
61	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
62	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
63	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
64	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
65	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
66	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
67	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
68	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
69	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
70	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
71	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
72	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
73	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
74	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
75	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
76	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
77	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
78	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
79	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
80	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
81	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
82	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
83	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
84	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
85	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
86	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
87	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
88	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
89	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
90	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
91	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
92	Patient 11	Sky News	True Crime	6	Spreaker	64
93	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
94	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
95	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
96	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
97	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
98	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
99	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
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.

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