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 Sep 2026

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09/23/2026

Average data

Episodes: 175

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:40:30

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
7	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
12	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
13	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
15	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
18	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
19	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
20	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
21	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	411	BBC	28
22	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
23	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
24	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
27	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
28	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	513	BBC	28
29	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
30	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	85	Spotify for Podcasters	32
31	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
32	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
34	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
35	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
36	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
37	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	49	Acast	94
38	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	197	Spotify for Podcasters	27
39	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
40	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
41	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
42	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
44	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
45	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
47	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
48	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
49	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
50	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
51	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
52	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
53	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	160	Omny Studio	69
54	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	83	Spotify for Podcasters	52
55	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
56	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
57	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
58	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
61	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
62	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
63	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
64	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
65	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
66	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
67	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
68	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
69	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
70	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
71	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
72	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
73	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
74	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	78	Acast	74
75	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	2	Unknown	63
76	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
77	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
78	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
79	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
80	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
81	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
82	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	49	RedCircle	73
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
85	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
86	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
87	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
88	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	696	BBC	28
89	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
90	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
91	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	643	Acast	69
92	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
93	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
94	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
95	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
96	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
97	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
98	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
99	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	27
100	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83

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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