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 23 Apr 2026

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04/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 164

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:42:30

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	118	Acast	73
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	108	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
5	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	703	Megaphone	53
8	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	308	Megaphone	42
10	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
11	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	445	Acast	74
13	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	73
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
16	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	26	Spreaker	84
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
21	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
22	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
23	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
24	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	354	ART19	68
25	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	87	Spotify for Podcasters	32
26	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	437	Megaphone	32
28	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	282	Megaphone	43
29	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
30	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
31	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
32	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
33	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
34	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	51	Acast	94
35	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1197	Acast	59
36	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
37	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
38	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
39	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	164	Acast	69
41	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	515	BBC	28
42	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	79	Spreaker	43
43	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
44	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
45	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	71	Triton Digital	63
46	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
47	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
48	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
49	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
50	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	198	ART19	37
51	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
52	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
53	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
54	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	98	Omny Studio	89
55	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
56	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
57	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	413	BBC	28
58	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
59	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
60	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
61	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
62	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
63	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
64	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	48
65	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	653	Acast	69
66	Patient 11	Sky News	True Crime	6	Spreaker	64
67	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
68	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
69	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	152	Spotify for Podcasters	52
70	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	91	Libsyn	62
71	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
72	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	267	Spreaker	69
73	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
74	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
75	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
76	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
77	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
78	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
79	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
80	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	51	RedCircle	63
81	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
82	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
83	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
84	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
85	7 metrów pod ziemią	Rafał Gębura	Society & Culture	269	Spotify for Podcasters	28
86	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	53	Captivate	63
87	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
88	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
89	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	191	PRX	79
90	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	190	Ximalaya	53
91	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
92	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	211	Acast	79
93	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	527	Spreaker	43
94	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	215	Megaphone	38
95	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
96	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
97	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
98	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	27	Libsyn	73
99	I Talk To Ghosts	Jennifer Page	Society & Culture	301	Buzzsprout	73
100	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64

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.

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