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 Jun 2026

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06/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 165

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:40:30

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

5. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
3	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
4	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
5	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
11	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
14	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
15	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
16	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
17	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
18	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
20	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
21	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
22	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
23	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
25	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
26	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
27	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
28	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
29	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
30	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
31	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
32	Woman Overboard	Katherine Sutherland	Society & Culture	3	Acast	49
33	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
34	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
35	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
36	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
37	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
38	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
39	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
41	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
42	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
43	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
44	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
45	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
46	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
47	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
48	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
49	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
50	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
51	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
52	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
53	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
54	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
55	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
56	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
57	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
58	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
59	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
60	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
61	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
62	Inside the Reading Gap	Thinking Reading	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
63	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
64	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
65	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
66	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
67	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
68	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
69	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
70	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
71	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
72	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
73	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
74	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
75	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
76	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
77	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
78	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
79	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
80	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
81	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
82	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	81	Spotify for Podcasters	52
83	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
84	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
85	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
86	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
87	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
88	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
89	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
90	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
91	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
92	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	77	Acast	74
93	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
94	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
95	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
96	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
97	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
98	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	159	Simplecast	73
99	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
100	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	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.

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