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 20 Jun 2025

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06/20/2025

Average data

Episodes: 180

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:41:51

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
8	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
10	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
14	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
15	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
16	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
17	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
18	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	114	Spotify for Podcasters	42
19	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
21	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
23	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
25	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
26	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
27	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
28	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
29	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	66	Captivate	69
30	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
31	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
32	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
33	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
34	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
35	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
36	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
37	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
38	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
39	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
40	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
41	Trolled	Aoife Moore	Society & Culture	8	Acast	53
42	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	33	Libsyn	68
43	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
44	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
45	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
46	White Men Can't Work!	Tim Samuels	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
47	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
48	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
49	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
50	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
51	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
52	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
54	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
55	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
56	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
57	The Unsettled Dead	Deborah Davies	Society & Culture	8	Podbean	53
58	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
59	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
60	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
61	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
62	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
63	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
64	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
65	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
66	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	102	Acast	59
67	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
68	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
69	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
70	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
71	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
72	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
73	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
74	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
75	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
76	Occult Knowledge	Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	27	Spotify for Podcasters	53
77	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
78	Aunties in England	Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	43
79	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	327	Simplecast	53
80	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
81	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
82	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
83	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	83	Acast	74
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
86	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
87	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	147	Captivate	79
88	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
89	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
90	Architecture of Abuse	Architecture of Abuse	Society & Culture	15	Podbean	63
91	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
92	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	676	Acast	69
93	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
94	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
95	Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed	Lynn Studio	Society & Culture	132	Acast	43
96	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	130	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	Al Jazeera Documentary	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	22	Spreaker	43
98	The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	10	The Washington Post	63
99	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
100	Young Warriors	Ali Fraser	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69

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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