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 Sep 2025

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09/22/2025

Average data

Episodes: 217

Frequency: every 34 days

Duration: 00:42:09

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Buzzsprout (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
2	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
5	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
9	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
13	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
14	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
17	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
18	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
19	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
20	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
21	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
22	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
24	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
25	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
26	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
27	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
29	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
30	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
31	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
32	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
34	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
35	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
36	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
37	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
38	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
39	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
40	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
41	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
42	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	676	Acast	69
43	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
44	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
45	The Stephen Howson Podcast	Stephen Howson	Society & Culture	13	Spotify for Podcasters	42
46	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	701	BBC	28
47	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
48	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	147	Captivate	79
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
50	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
51	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
52	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
53	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
54	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
55	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
56	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	66	Captivate	69
57	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
58	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
59	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	102	Acast	59
60	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
61	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
62	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	327	Simplecast	53
63	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
64	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
65	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
66	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
67	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
68	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
69	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
70	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
71	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
72	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
73	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
74	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
75	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
76	Hidden Cults	Nik Hunter	Society & Culture	65	Spreaker	70
77	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
78	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
79	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
80	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
81	Country of Dust	Country of Dust	Society & Culture	19	Buzzsprout	38
82	So Disappointed Details temporarily unavailable	So Disappointed	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
83	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
84	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
85	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
86	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
87	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
88	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
89	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
90	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
91	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
92	Summat in t'Air	Yorkshire Air Ambulance	Society & Culture	5	Captivate	69
93	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
94	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
95	Wilson & Ashley	Wilson & Ashley	Society & Culture	40	Buzzsprout	73
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
97	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
98	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
99	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
100	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38

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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