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 25 May 2026

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05/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 163

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:39:20

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (10 shows)

4. ART19 (8 shows)

5. Omny Studio (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	115	Acast	73
2	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	53
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	114	BBC	38
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	704	Megaphone	53
6	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
7	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
8	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	447	Acast	74
10	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	231	Acast	43
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	941	Simplecast	38
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	310	Megaphone	42
13	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
14	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
15	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	100	BBC	53
18	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	24	ART19	73
19	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	24	Omny Studio	73
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
21	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	21	Spreaker	84
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	99	Acast	79
23	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
24	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	439	Megaphone	32
25	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	356	ART19	68
26	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1200	Acast	59
27	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	414	BBC	28
28	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	52	Megaphone	48
30	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	144	Megaphone	68
31	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
32	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
33	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	89	Spotify for Podcasters	32
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	36	Omny Studio	83
36	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
37	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	12	BBC	63
38	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
39	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	166	Omny Studio	69
40	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
41	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
42	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
43	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	99	Omny Studio	89
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	268	Spreaker	69
45	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	516	BBC	28
46	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
47	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	698	BBC	28
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	283	Megaphone	43
49	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	199	ART19	37
50	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
51	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
52	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	351	Simplecast	78
53	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
54	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
55	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	153	Spotify for Podcasters	52
56	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	52	Acast	94
57	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	136	N/A	N/A
58	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
59	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
60	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	165	Acast	69
61	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
62	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	659	Acast	69
63	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
64	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
65	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
66	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
67	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
68	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
69	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
70	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
71	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	23	Captivate	73
72	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
73	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
74	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
75	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	156	Megaphone	63
76	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
77	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
78	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
79	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
80	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
81	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
82	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
83	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	85	Spreaker	43
84	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	191	Ximalaya	53
85	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	324	Simplecast	53
86	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
87	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
88	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
89	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	68	Acast	83
90	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
91	Invisible Handcuffs: Unchaining Economics	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	2	Podigee	48
92	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	92	Libsyn	62
93	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
94	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
95	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
96	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
97	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
98	History's Great Mysteries	Nick	Society & Culture	20	Spotify for Podcasters	28
99	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
100	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79

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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