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 Jul 2026

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07/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 155

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:40:50

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
4	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
8	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
9	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
12	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
14	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
17	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
18	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
19	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
20	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
21	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
22	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
23	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
24	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
25	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
26	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
28	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
29	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
30	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
31	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
33	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
34	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
35	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
36	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
37	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
38	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
39	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
40	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	701	BBC	28
41	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
42	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
43	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
44	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
45	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
46	The Last Soviet	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	59
47	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
48	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
49	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
50	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	32
51	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
52	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
53	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
56	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
57	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
58	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
59	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
60	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
61	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
62	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
63	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
64	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
66	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
67	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
68	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
69	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	355	Simplecast	78
70	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
71	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
72	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
73	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
74	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
75	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
76	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
77	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
78	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
79	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
80	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
81	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
82	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
83	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
84	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
85	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
86	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	327	Simplecast	53
87	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
88	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
89	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	45	Spotify for Podcasters	27
90	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
91	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
92	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	35	RSS.com	68
93	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
94	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
95	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
96	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
97	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
98	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
99	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	677	Acast	69
100	Decolonial Dispatch	Decolonial Centre	Society & Culture	21	Acast	53

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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