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 May 2026

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05/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 171

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:40:05

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
7	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
8	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
11	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
13	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
17	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
18	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
19	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
20	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
22	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
23	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
24	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
25	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
26	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
27	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
28	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
29	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
30	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
32	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
33	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
34	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
35	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
36	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
37	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
38	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
39	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
40	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
42	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
43	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
44	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
45	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
47	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
48	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
49	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
50	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
51	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
52	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
53	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
54	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
55	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
56	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
57	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
58	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
59	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
60	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
61	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
62	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
63	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
64	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
65	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
66	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
67	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
68	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
69	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
70	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
71	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
72	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
73	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
74	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
75	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
76	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
77	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
78	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
79	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
80	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
81	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
83	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
84	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	163	Simplecast	63
85	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
86	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
87	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
88	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
89	Class Divide	Class Divide	Society & Culture	25	Acast	84
90	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
91	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
92	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
93	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
94	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
95	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
96	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
97	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
98	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
99	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
100	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62

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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