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 Jul 2026

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07/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 142

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:39:16

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
2	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
3	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	BBC	38
5	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
6	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
7	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
8	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
9	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
10	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
11	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
14	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
15	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
21	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
22	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
25	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
26	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
27	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
28	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
29	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
30	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
31	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
32	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
33	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	273	WideOrbit	48
34	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
35	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
36	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	147	Megaphone	68
38	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
39	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1208	Acast	59
40	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
41	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
42	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
43	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	92	Spotify for Podcasters	32
44	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
47	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
48	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
49	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
50	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
51	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
52	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
53	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
54	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
55	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
57	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
58	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
59	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
60	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
61	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
62	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
63	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
64	The Cows Are Mad	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	39
65	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
66	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
67	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
68	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
69	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
70	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
71	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
72	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
73	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
74	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
75	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
76	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
77	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	39	Omny Studio	83
78	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
79	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
80	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
81	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
82	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
83	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
84	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
85	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
86	Decolonial Dispatch	Decolonial Centre	Society & Culture	21	Acast	53
87	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	355	Simplecast	78
88	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
89	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
90	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
91	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
92	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
93	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
94	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
95	Blue square \| مربع آبی	Raad charity	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
96	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
97	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
98	Inside the Reading Gap	Thinking Reading	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
99	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	46	Acast	79
100	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	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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