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 Aug 2025

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08/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:42:05

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	Top Comment	BBC	News	98	BBC	48
3	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
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	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
8	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
10	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
11	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
12	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
16	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1189	Acast	59
17	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
19	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
20	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
21	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
22	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
24	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
25	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
27	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
28	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
29	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
30	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
32	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
33	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
34	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
35	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
36	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
37	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
39	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
40	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
42	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
43	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	97	Acast	59
44	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
45	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	195	Spotify for Podcasters	27
46	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
47	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
48	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
49	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
50	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
51	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
52	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
53	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	32
54	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
55	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
56	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
57	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
58	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
59	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
60	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
61	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
62	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
63	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
64	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
65	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
66	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
67	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
68	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
69	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
70	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
71	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
72	Radio Diaries	Radio Diaries & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	272	PRX	43
73	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	158	Omny Studio	69
74	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
75	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
76	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
77	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
79	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
80	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
81	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
82	The Chunter Basha w/ Billy Billingham	Mark "Billy" Billingham	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	28
83	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
84	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
85	Geography Matters	Chris Hamnett	Society & Culture	28	Captivate	79
86	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	398	Buzzsprout	83
87	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
88	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
89	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
90	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
91	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
92	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
93	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
94	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
95	Bitesized Folklore	Jodie Paterson	Society & Culture	31	Captivate	73
96	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
97	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
98	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
99	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
100	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	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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