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 22 Mar 2026

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03/22/2026

Average data

Episodes: 162

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:41:01

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
2	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
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	170	BBC	38
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
14	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
17	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
18	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
19	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
20	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
21	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
22	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
23	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
24	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
25	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
26	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
27	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
30	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
31	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
32	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
33	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
34	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
35	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
36	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
37	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
39	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
40	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
42	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
43	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
44	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
45	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
46	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
48	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
49	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
50	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
51	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
52	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
53	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
54	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
55	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
58	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
59	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
60	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
61	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
62	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
63	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
64	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
65	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
66	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
67	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
68	On the Ground	Geographical	Society & Culture	3	Buzzsprout	38
69	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
71	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
72	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
73	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
74	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
75	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
76	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
77	L' Ultima Granita	Cronache Sepolte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	43
78	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
79	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
80	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
81	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
82	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	27	Libsyn	73
83	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
84	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
85	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
86	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
87	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
88	Crime Scene	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	20	Megaphone	83
89	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
90	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
91	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
92	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
93	Mallen Baker: Faultlines	Mallen Baker	Society & Culture	599	Simplecast	63
94	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
95	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
97	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
98	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
99	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
100	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	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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