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 Apr 2025

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04/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 195

Frequency: every 39 days

Duration: 00:42:48

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (12 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Brazen (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (19 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (5 shows)

5. Spreaker (4 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
2	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
3	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
5	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
6	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
8	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
9	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
10	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
11	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
12	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
17	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
18	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
19	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
20	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
21	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
22	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
23	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
24	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
25	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
26	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
27	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
28	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	55	BBC	48
29	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
30	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
31	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
32	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
33	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
34	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
35	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
36	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
37	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
38	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
39	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
40	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
41	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
42	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
43	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
44	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
45	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
46	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
47	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
48	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
49	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
50	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
51	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
52	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	70	Triton Digital	63
53	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
54	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
55	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
56	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	110	Spotify for Podcasters	42
57	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
58	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
59	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
60	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
61	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
62	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
63	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
64	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
65	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
66	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	95	WideOrbit	68
67	Privateer Station: War In Ukraine	Privateer	Society & Culture	491	Spreaker	53
68	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
69	Breaking Down: Collapse	Kory & Kellan	Science	362	Acast	69
70	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	295	Audioboom	58
71	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
72	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
75	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
76	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	648	Acast	69
77	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	99	Acast	59
78	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
79	In It Together: The Joint Enterprise Podcast	Maxine Peake	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
80	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
81	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
82	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
83	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
84	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
85	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
86	Zero Ambitions Podcast	Jeff and Dan	Society & Culture	185	Transistor	53
87	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	146	Captivate	38
88	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
89	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
90	When The Wolves Came	Meanings of Democracy Lab	Society & Culture	7	ART19	63
91	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
92	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
93	Gateway: Cocaine, Murder, & Dirty Money in Europe	Brazen	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	79
94	The All or Nothing Podcast with Billy Moore	Billy Moore	Society & Culture	99	Spotify for Podcasters	22
95	Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative	Radiotopia	Society & Culture	6	PRX	73
96	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	526	Spreaker	43
97	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
98	Who Robs A Banksy?	Podimo & Message Heard	Society & Culture	10	Audioboom	53
99	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
100	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73

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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