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 Sep 2026

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09/21/2026

Average data

Episodes: 169

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:39:51

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Simplecast (7 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	699	Megaphone	53
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
9	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
12	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	224	Acast	43
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	304	Megaphone	42
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	32
18	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
19	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
20	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
21	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
24	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
25	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
26	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
27	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
28	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
29	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	32
30	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
31	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
32	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
33	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
34	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	196	Spotify for Podcasters	27
35	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	411	BBC	28
36	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
38	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
39	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
40	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	159	Omny Studio	69
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
42	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	49	Acast	94
43	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	348	Simplecast	78
44	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
45	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
46	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	301	WideOrbit	68
47	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
48	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
49	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	33	Omny Studio	83
50	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	64	Acast	83
51	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
52	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	695	BBC	28
53	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
54	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
55	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
56	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
57	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	1	Unknown	63
58	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	73
59	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	52
60	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
61	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
62	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
63	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
64	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
65	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
66	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	190	Simplecast	58
67	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
68	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
69	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
70	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
71	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
72	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
73	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
74	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
75	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
76	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
77	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	70	Spreaker	43
78	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	638	Acast	69
79	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	321	Simplecast	53
80	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
81	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
82	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
83	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
84	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
85	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	400	Buzzsprout	83
86	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
87	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	27
88	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
89	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	83	Unknown	63
90	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
91	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
92	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
93	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
94	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
95	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
96	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
97	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
98	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
99	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
100	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	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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