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 Oct 2026

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10/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 147

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:40:44

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. The Telegraph (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (10 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
2	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	58
3	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
4	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
5	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
6	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
7	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	32	Libsyn	68
8	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
9	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
10	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
11	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
14	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
15	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
16	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
17	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
20	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
22	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
23	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
24	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
25	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
26	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
27	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
28	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
29	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
30	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
31	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
32	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
33	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
34	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
35	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
36	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
37	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
38	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
39	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
40	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
41	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
42	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
43	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
44	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
45	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
46	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
47	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
48	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
49	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
51	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
52	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
53	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
54	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	326	Simplecast	53
55	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
57	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
58	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
59	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
60	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
61	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	63
62	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	88	Spotify for Podcasters	52
63	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
64	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
65	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
66	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
67	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
68	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	143	N/A	N/A
69	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	673	Acast	69
70	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
71	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
72	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	83	Acast	74
73	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	147	Captivate	38
74	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	70	Acast	83
75	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
76	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
77	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
78	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
79	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
80	Wilder Podcast	Grange Project	Society & Culture	59	Captivate	83
81	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
82	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	68
83	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	68
84	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
85	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
86	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
87	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
88	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
89	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
90	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	13	Acast	84
91	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
92	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
93	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	28	Libsyn	58
94	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
95	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	5	ART19	58
96	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
97	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
98	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
99	Patient 11	Sky News	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	59
100	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	130	Acast	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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