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 2026

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06/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 165

Frequency: every 37 days

Duration: 00:38:33

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Megaphone (11 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
4	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
5	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
12	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	33	Omny Studio	83
13	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
14	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	224	Acast	43
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
18	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
19	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
20	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
21	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
22	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
24	Woman Overboard	Katherine Sutherland	Society & Culture	3	Acast	49
25	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
27	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	259	WideOrbit	48
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
30	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
31	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
32	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
33	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
34	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
35	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1189	Acast	59
36	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
37	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	32
38	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
39	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
40	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
41	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
42	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
43	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
44	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
45	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
46	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
47	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
48	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
49	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	195	Spotify for Podcasters	27
50	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
51	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
52	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
53	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
54	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
55	Inside the Reading Gap	Thinking Reading	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
56	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
57	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
58	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	20	Captivate	73
59	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
60	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
61	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
62	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
63	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
64	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
65	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
67	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
68	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
69	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
70	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
71	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
72	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
73	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
74	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
75	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
76	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
77	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
78	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
79	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
80	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
81	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
82	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	52
83	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
84	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
85	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
86	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
87	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
88	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
89	Under The Concrete	Ibby Alcraft and Rawnak Jassm	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	58
90	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	158	Omny Studio	69
91	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
92	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
93	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
94	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
95	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
96	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
97	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
98	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	695	BBC	28
99	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
100	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62

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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