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 Nov 2025

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11/23/2025

Average data

Episodes: 198

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:44:22

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
5	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
6	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
10	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
15	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
16	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
17	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
18	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
19	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
21	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
22	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
24	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
25	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
26	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
27	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
28	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
29	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
30	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
31	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
34	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
36	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
37	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
38	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
39	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	649	Acast	69
40	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
42	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
43	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
44	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
45	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	30	RSS.com	68
46	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
47	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
48	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
49	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
50	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
51	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
52	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
53	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
54	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
55	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
56	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
57	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
58	Different with Nicky Campbell	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	69	BBC	28
59	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
60	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
61	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
62	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
63	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
64	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
65	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
66	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	323	Simplecast	53
67	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
68	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
69	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
70	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
71	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
72	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
73	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
74	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
75	Heweliusz. Prawdziwa historia	Polskie Radio S.A.	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	43
76	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
77	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
78	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
79	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
80	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
81	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
82	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
83	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
84	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
85	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	77	Buzzsprout	62
86	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
87	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
88	Deborah Hatswell. BBR Investigations. Cryptids, Paranormal & Unexplained Events	Being Believed Investigations	Society & Culture	312	Spreaker	53
89	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
90	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
91	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
92	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
93	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	48
94	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
95	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
96	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
97	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
98	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
99	WTF is on my Mind?!	Mark Vicente	Society & Culture	124	Buzzsprout	53
100	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79

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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