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 2026

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08/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 163

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:40:01

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
2	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
7	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
8	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
11	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
12	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
13	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
16	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
20	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
21	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
25	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
28	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
29	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
30	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
31	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
32	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
33	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
34	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
35	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
36	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
37	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
38	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
39	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
40	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
41	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
42	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
43	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
44	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
45	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
47	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
49	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
50	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
51	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
52	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
53	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
54	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
55	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
56	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
57	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
58	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
59	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
60	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
61	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
62	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
63	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
64	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
65	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
66	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
67	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
68	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
69	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
70	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
71	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
72	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
73	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
74	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
75	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
76	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
77	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
78	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
79	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
80	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
81	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
82	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
83	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	110	Megaphone	68
84	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
85	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
86	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
87	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
88	Tango Juliet Foxtrot - the police podcast	Iain Donnelly	Society & Culture	98	Podbean	37
89	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
90	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
91	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
92	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
93	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	77	Acast	74
94	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
95	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
96	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
97	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
98	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
99	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
100	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43

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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