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 Mar 2026

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03/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 172

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:42:49

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
10	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
11	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
14	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
17	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
18	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
20	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
21	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
23	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
24	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
25	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
26	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
28	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
29	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
30	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
31	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
32	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
33	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
34	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
35	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
36	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
37	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
39	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
40	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	32
41	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
43	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
45	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
46	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
47	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
48	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
49	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
50	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
51	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
52	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
53	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
54	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
55	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
56	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
57	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
58	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
59	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
60	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
61	L' Ultima Granita	Cronache Sepolte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	43
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
64	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
65	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
66	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
67	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
68	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
69	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
70	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
71	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
72	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
73	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
74	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
75	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
76	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
77	On the Ground	Geographical	Society & Culture	3	Buzzsprout	38
78	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
79	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
80	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
81	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
82	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
83	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
84	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	677	Acast	69
85	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
86	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
87	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
88	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
89	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
90	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
91	The Unsettled Dead	Deborah Davies	Society & Culture	8	Podbean	53
92	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
93	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
94	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
95	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
96	Admissible: Shreds of Evidence	VPM & Story Mechanics	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	53
97	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	507	RedCircle	43
98	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
99	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
100	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79

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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