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 juin 2026

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06/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:39:54

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
3	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
9	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	224	Acast	43
10	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
11	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
14	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
16	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
17	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
20	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
21	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
23	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
26	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	32
27	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
29	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1189	Acast	59
30	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	33	Omny Studio	83
31	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
32	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
33	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
34	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	259	WideOrbit	48
35	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
36	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
37	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
38	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
39	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	20	Captivate	73
40	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
42	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
43	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	695	BBC	28
44	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
45	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
46	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
47	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
48	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
49	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	195	Spotify for Podcasters	27
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
51	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
52	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
53	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
54	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
55	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
56	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
57	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
58	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
59	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
60	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
61	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
62	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
63	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
64	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
65	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
66	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
67	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
68	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
69	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
70	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	348	Simplecast	78
71	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	158	Omny Studio	69
73	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
74	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
75	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
76	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
77	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
78	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	321	Simplecast	53
79	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
80	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
81	Under The Concrete	Ibby Alcraft and Rawnak Jassm	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	58
82	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
84	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
85	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
86	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	52
87	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
88	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
89	Corinna and The King	Brazen	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	94
90	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
91	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
92	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	68	Spreaker	43
93	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
94	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
95	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
96	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
97	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
98	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
99	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
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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