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 Jul 2026

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07/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 173

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:40:28

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
3	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	104	BBC	38
5	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	99	BBC	53
8	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
9	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
10	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
11	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
14	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
15	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
18	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
22	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
23	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
24	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	28	Spreaker	84
27	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
28	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
29	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
30	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
31	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
32	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
33	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
34	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
35	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
36	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
37	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1196	Acast	59
38	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
39	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
40	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
41	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
42	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	143	Megaphone	68
43	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
44	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
45	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
46	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
47	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
48	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
49	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
51	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
52	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
54	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
55	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
57	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
58	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
59	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
60	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
61	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
62	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
63	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
64	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
65	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
66	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
67	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
68	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
69	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
70	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
71	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
72	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
73	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
74	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
75	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
77	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
78	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
79	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
80	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
81	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
82	The Cows Are Mad	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	39
83	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
84	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
85	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
86	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
87	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
88	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
89	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
90	Blue square \| مربع آبی	Raad charity	Society & Culture	4	Acast	73
91	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
92	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
93	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
94	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
95	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
96	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
97	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
98	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
99	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
100	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	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.

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