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 juil. 2025

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07/25/2025

Average data

Episodes: 195

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:42:22

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (18 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
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	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
5	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
6	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
10	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
11	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
15	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
16	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
17	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
18	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
20	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
21	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
22	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
23	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
24	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
25	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
26	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
27	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
28	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
29	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
30	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
31	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
32	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
33	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
34	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
35	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
36	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
37	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
38	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
39	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
40	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
41	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
42	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
43	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
44	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
45	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
46	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
47	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
48	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
49	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
50	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
51	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
52	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
53	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
54	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
55	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
56	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
57	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
58	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
59	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
60	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
61	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
62	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
63	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
64	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
65	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
66	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
67	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
68	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84
70	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
71	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
72	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
73	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
74	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
75	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
76	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
77	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
78	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
79	Classy with Jonathan Menjivar	Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy	Society & Culture	11	WideOrbit	42
80	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
81	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
82	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
83	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
84	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
85	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
86	There's A Lot I Haven't Asked	Hannah Donelon	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	48
87	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
88	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
89	Privateer Station: War In Ukraine	Privateer	Society & Culture	491	Spreaker	53
90	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
91	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
92	Intersections	A Human Atlas	Society & Culture	22	Libsyn	73
93	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
94	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
95	The Scottish paranormal podcast’s Podcast	Chris SPP	Society & Culture	73	Podbean	37
96	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
97	Long Lost: An Investigative History Series	Twin Cities PBS	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	48
98	First America	Pushkin Industries	History	33	Omny Studio	63
99	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	141	Captivate	79
100	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48

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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