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 Jun 2025

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06/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 187

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:42:01

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Omny Studio (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
2	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
3	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
8	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
9	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
11	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
13	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
16	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
17	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
18	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
19	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
20	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
21	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
24	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
25	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
26	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
27	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
28	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
29	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
30	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
31	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
33	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
34	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
35	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
36	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
37	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
38	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
39	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
40	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
41	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
42	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
43	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
44	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
46	Northern Monk - Fresh From The North	Russell Bisset	Society & Culture	1	Transistor	53
47	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
48	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
49	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
50	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
51	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
52	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
53	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
54	Trolled	Aoife Moore	Society & Culture	8	Acast	53
55	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
56	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
57	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
58	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
59	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
60	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
61	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
64	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
65	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
66	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
67	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
68	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
69	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
72	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
73	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
74	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
75	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
76	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	85	Acast	89
77	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	77	Acast	74
78	Aunties in England	Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	43
79	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
80	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
81	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
82	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
83	Occult Knowledge	Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	27	Spotify for Podcasters	53
84	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
85	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
86	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
87	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
88	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
89	Obscurata \| True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories	True Crime, Mysteries, Paranormal, Unexplained, True Scary Stories	Society & Culture	66	Acast	79
90	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
91	There's A Lot I Haven't Asked	Hannah Donelon	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	48
92	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
93	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
94	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
95	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
96	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
97	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
98	SOUND OF CHANGE- Where Every Voice Is A Catalyst.	Nikhil Naithani	Society & Culture	4	Spotify for Podcasters	48
99	White Men Can't Work!	Tim Samuels	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
100	The National Archives Podcast Series	The National Archives	Society & Culture	549	Unknown	32

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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