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 juin 2026

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06/26/2026

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:40:19

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
3	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
8	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
12	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
14	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
17	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
18	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
20	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
21	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
22	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
24	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
25	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
26	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
28	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
29	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
30	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
31	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
32	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
33	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
34	Woman Overboard	Katherine Sutherland	Society & Culture	3	Acast	49
35	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
36	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
37	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
38	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	77	Acast	74
39	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
40	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
41	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
42	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
43	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
44	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
45	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
46	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
47	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
48	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
49	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
50	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
51	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
52	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
53	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
54	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
55	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
56	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
57	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
58	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
59	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
60	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
61	Inside the Reading Gap	Thinking Reading	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
62	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
63	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
64	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
65	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
66	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
67	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
68	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
69	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
70	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
71	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
72	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
73	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
74	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
75	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
76	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
77	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
78	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
79	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
80	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
82	Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	63
83	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
84	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
85	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
86	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
87	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
88	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
89	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
90	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
91	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
92	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
93	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
94	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
95	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
96	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	81	Spotify for Podcasters	52
97	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
98	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
99	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
100	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	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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