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 Apr 2025

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04/22/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:43:20

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (12 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (20 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Simplecast (5 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
4	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	443	Acast	74
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
8	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
12	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
13	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
14	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
15	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
16	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
17	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
19	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
21	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
23	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
24	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
25	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
26	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
27	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
28	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
29	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
30	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
31	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
32	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
34	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
35	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
36	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
37	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	36	BBC	58
39	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
40	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
41	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
42	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	55	BBC	48
43	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
44	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
45	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
46	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
47	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
48	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
49	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
50	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
51	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	696	BBC	28
52	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
53	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
54	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
55	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
56	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
57	Top Comment	BBC	News	99	BBC	48
58	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	43	Omny Studio	53
59	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
60	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
61	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	644	Acast	69
62	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	68
63	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
64	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
65	Privateer Station: War In Ukraine	Privateer	Society & Culture	491	Spreaker	53
66	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
67	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
68	The All or Nothing Podcast with Billy Moore	Billy Moore	Society & Culture	99	Spotify for Podcasters	22
69	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
70	The National Archives Podcast Series	The National Archives	Society & Culture	549	Unknown	32
71	Who Robs A Banksy?	Podimo & Message Heard	Society & Culture	10	Audioboom	53
72	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
73	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
74	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
75	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
76	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
77	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
78	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
79	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
81	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
82	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
83	Geography Matters	Chris Hamnett	Society & Culture	36	Captivate	79
84	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
85	Trumped	BBC Radio Scotland	Society & Culture	9	BBC	33
86	Breaking Down: Collapse	Kory & Kellan	Science	362	Acast	69
87	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
88	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
89	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
90	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
91	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
92	Equipo de investigación	Onda Cero Podcast	Society & Culture	38	Megaphone	89
93	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
94	The Invisible Hand	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	8	Audioboom	73
95	Gateway: Cocaine, Murder, & Dirty Money in Europe	Brazen	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	79
96	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	98	Acast	59
97	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	430	Acast	53
98	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
99	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
100	Cosmic Peach	Julia Hamilton	Society & Culture	321	Spreaker	49

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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