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 May 2026

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05/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 188

Frequency: every 34 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. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 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	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
2	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	125	BBC	38
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	707	Megaphone	53
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	450	Acast	74
7	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
8	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	234	Acast	43
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	312	Megaphone	42
13	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
14	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
18	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	25	ART19	73
19	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
20	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
21	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
23	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1205	Acast	59
24	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	357	ART19	68
25	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	54	Megaphone	48
26	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	442	Megaphone	32
28	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
29	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
31	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
32	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
33	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
34	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	28	Acast	83
35	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
36	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
37	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
38	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	270	Spreaker	69
39	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	284	Megaphone	43
41	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
42	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	202	ART19	37
43	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	154	Spotify for Podcasters	52
44	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
46	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	53	Acast	94
47	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
48	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	168	Omny Studio	69
49	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
50	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
51	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
52	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
53	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
54	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
55	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
56	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
57	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	52
58	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
59	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
60	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
61	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
62	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
63	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	670	Acast	69
64	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
65	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
66	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
67	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
68	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
69	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
70	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
71	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
72	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
73	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
74	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
75	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
76	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
77	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
78	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
79	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
80	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
81	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	326	Simplecast	53
82	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
83	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
84	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
85	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
86	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
87	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
88	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
89	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	69	Acast	83
90	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
91	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	150	Simplecast	73
92	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
93	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
94	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
95	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	79
96	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
97	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
98	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
99	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
100	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73

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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