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 Sep 2026

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09/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 176

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:41:22

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. Megaphone (13 shows)

3. BBC (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
7	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
8	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
9	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
10	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
11	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
13	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
14	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
18	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
19	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
20	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
22	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
23	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	513	BBC	28
24	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
25	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
26	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
27	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
28	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
29	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
30	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
31	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	411	BBC	28
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
33	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	192	Simplecast	58
34	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
35	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
36	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	85	Spotify for Podcasters	32
37	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
38	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
39	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
40	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
42	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
43	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
44	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	49	Acast	94
45	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
46	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
47	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
48	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
49	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
50	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
51	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
52	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
53	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
54	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
55	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	197	Spotify for Podcasters	27
56	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
57	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	160	Omny Studio	69
58	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
59	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
60	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
61	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
62	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	83	Spotify for Podcasters	52
63	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
64	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
65	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
66	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
67	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
68	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
71	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
72	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
73	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
74	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
75	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
76	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
77	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
78	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
79	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
80	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
81	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	2	Unknown	63
82	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
83	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	643	Acast	69
84	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
85	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
86	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
87	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
88	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
89	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
90	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	525	Spreaker	43
91	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
92	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
93	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
94	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
95	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
96	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
97	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
98	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
99	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	68
100	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22

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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