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 Nov 2025

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11/24/2025

Average data

Episodes: 194

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:43:44

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC (2 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	114	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
6	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
7	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
8	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	410	Megaphone	63
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
10	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	447	Acast	74
14	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
15	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1200	Acast	59
16	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
17	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	52	Acast	94
18	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
19	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
20	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
21	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
22	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	32
24	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
25	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	698	BBC	28
26	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
28	Top Comment	BBC	News	101	BBC	48
29	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
30	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
32	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
35	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
36	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
38	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	28	Simplecast	63
39	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
40	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
41	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
42	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	199	ART19	37
43	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
44	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
45	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
46	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
47	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
48	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
49	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	659	Acast	69
50	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
51	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
52	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
53	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
54	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	516	BBC	28
55	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
56	Different with Nicky Campbell	BBC Radio 5 Live	Society & Culture	69	BBC	28
57	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
58	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
59	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
60	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	324	Simplecast	53
61	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
62	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
63	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
64	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
65	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
66	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
67	Russell Brand: On Trial	Sky News	News	55	Captivate	69
68	Foster Care Uncovered	Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen	Society & Culture	34	RSS.com	68
69	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
70	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	99	Omny Studio	89
71	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
73	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	23	Omny Studio	68
74	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	79
75	Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	49	Omny Studio	48
76	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
77	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
78	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
79	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
80	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
81	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
82	Heweliusz. Prawdziwa historia	Polskie Radio S.A.	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	43
83	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
84	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
85	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
86	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	356	Spotify for Podcasters	38
87	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
88	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	53
89	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
90	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
91	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
92	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	52	RedCircle	73
93	Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story	Vanity Fair	Society & Culture	8	PRX	53
94	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
95	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
96	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
97	From Now On	LA PHILLIPS MEDIA	Society & Culture	46	Megaphone	69
98	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
99	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
100	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42

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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