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 nov. 2025

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11/21/2025

Average data

Episodes: 209

Frequency: every 28 days

Duration: 00:44:29

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
3	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
8	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
11	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
13	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
14	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
17	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
18	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
19	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
22	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
23	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
24	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
25	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	30	RSS.com	68
26	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
27	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
28	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
29	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
30	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
31	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
32	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
34	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
35	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
36	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
37	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
38	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
39	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
40	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
41	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
42	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
43	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
44	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
46	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
47	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
48	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
49	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
50	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
51	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
52	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
53	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
54	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
55	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
56	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
57	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
58	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
59	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
60	Heweliusz. Prawdziwa historia	Polskie Radio S.A.	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	43
61	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
62	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
63	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
65	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
67	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
68	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
69	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
70	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
71	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
72	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
73	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
74	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
75	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
76	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
77	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
78	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
79	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
80	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
81	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
82	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
83	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
84	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
85	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
86	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
87	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
88	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
89	Young Warriors	Ali Fraser	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
90	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
91	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
92	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
93	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
94	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
95	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
96	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
97	Visionaries	unknown_author	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	48
98	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
99	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	46	Omny Studio	48
100	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	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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