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 24 Feb 2026

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02/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 192

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:45:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	706	Megaphone	53
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	121	BBC	38
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
6	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	63
7	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
9	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
13	Top Comment	BBC	News	102	BBC	48
14	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
17	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1203	Acast	59
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
21	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
22	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
23	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
24	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
25	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	90	Spotify for Podcasters	32
26	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
27	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
28	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	145	Megaphone	68
29	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	26	Acast	83
30	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
31	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	53	Acast	94
32	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	269	Spreaker	69
34	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
35	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	699	BBC	28
36	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
37	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
38	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
39	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
40	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
41	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
42	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	79
43	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
44	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
45	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	37	Omny Studio	83
46	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
47	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
48	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
49	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	516	BBC	28
50	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
51	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
52	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
53	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
54	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
55	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
56	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
57	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
58	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
59	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	666	Acast	69
60	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
61	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
62	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	201	ART19	37
63	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
64	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	433	Audioboom	48
65	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	325	Simplecast	53
66	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
67	Hidden Derbyshire - Landscapes of Time	Nine Ladies Productions	History	12	RedCircle	53
68	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
69	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
70	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
71	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
72	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
73	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
74	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
75	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
76	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
77	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	168	Omny Studio	69
78	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
79	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
80	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
81	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
82	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
83	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
84	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	113	Ximalaya	59
85	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
86	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
87	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
88	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
89	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
90	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
91	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
92	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
93	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
94	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
95	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	60	Captivate	69
96	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	218	Megaphone	38
97	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	93	Libsyn	62
98	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
99	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
100	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63

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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