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 26 Feb 2026

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02/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 178

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:44:58

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
7	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
8	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
12	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	352	ART19	68
13	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
14	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
15	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
16	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
19	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
20	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
22	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
23	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
25	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
26	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
27	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
28	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
29	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
30	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
31	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
32	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
33	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	513	BBC	28
34	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	85	Spotify for Podcasters	32
35	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
36	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
37	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
38	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
39	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
40	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
41	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
42	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
43	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
44	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
45	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
46	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
47	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
48	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
49	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
50	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
51	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
52	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	213	Megaphone	38
53	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
54	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
55	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
56	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
57	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
58	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
59	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
61	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
62	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
63	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
64	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	696	BBC	28
65	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
66	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
67	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	161	Omny Studio	69
68	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	49	Megaphone	48
70	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
71	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	644	Acast	69
72	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	430	Audioboom	48
73	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
74	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
75	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
76	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
77	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
78	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
79	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	111	Ximalaya	59
80	Chameleon: The Michigan Plot	Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
81	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
82	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
83	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
84	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
85	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
86	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
87	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
88	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
89	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
90	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	322	Simplecast	53
91	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
92	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
93	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
94	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
95	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	68
96	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
97	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
98	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
99	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
100	Hidden Derbyshire - Landscapes of Time	Nine Ladies Productions	History	12	RedCircle	53

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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