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 Mar 2026

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03/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 152

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:42:39

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
2	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
3	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
8	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
12	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
14	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
15	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
16	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
19	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
23	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
24	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
25	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
26	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
27	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
28	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
29	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
30	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
31	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
32	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
33	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
34	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
35	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
36	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
37	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
38	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
39	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
40	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
41	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
42	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
43	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
45	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
47	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
48	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
49	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
50	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
51	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
52	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
53	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
54	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
55	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
56	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
57	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
58	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
59	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
60	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
61	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
62	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
63	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
64	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
65	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
66	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
67	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
68	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
69	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
70	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
71	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
72	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
73	Where Is John's Daughter?	Jamie & Natalie	Society & Culture	10	Unknown	63
74	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
75	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
76	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	92	WideOrbit	68
77	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
78	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
79	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
80	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
81	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
82	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
83	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
84	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
85	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
86	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
87	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
88	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
89	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
90	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
91	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
92	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
93	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
94	On the Ground	Geographical	Society & Culture	3	Buzzsprout	38
95	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
96	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
97	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
98	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
99	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
100	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59

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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