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 21 janv. 2026

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01/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 193

Frequency: every 44 days

Duration: 00:43:12

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (6 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 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	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
11	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
12	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
19	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
22	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
23	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
24	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
25	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
26	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
27	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
28	You Look Like Me	Louise McLoughlin	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	53
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
30	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
31	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
32	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
33	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
34	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
36	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
37	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
40	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
41	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
42	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
43	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
44	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
45	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
46	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
47	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
48	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
49	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
52	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
53	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
56	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
57	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
58	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
59	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
60	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
61	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
62	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
63	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
64	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
65	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
66	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
67	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
68	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
69	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
70	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
71	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
72	The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	58
73	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
74	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
75	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
76	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
77	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
78	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
79	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
80	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
81	Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW	Society & Culture	24	Unknown	48
82	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
83	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
84	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
85	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
86	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
87	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
88	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
89	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
90	White Men Can't Work!	Tim Samuels	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
91	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
92	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
93	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	30	RSS.com	68
94	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
95	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
96	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
97	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
98	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
99	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
100	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27

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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