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 Sep 2025

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09/26/2025

Average data

Episodes: 196

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:43:19

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (15 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
2	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
3	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	97	BBC	53
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	699	Megaphone	53
6	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
8	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
9	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
10	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	304	Megaphone	42
13	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
14	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
15	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
16	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
17	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
18	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
19	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	405	Megaphone	63
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
21	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1190	Acast	59
22	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	411	BBC	28
23	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
24	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
25	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
26	Top Comment	BBC	News	98	BBC	48
27	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
28	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
29	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
30	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
31	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	433	Megaphone	32
32	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
33	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
34	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
35	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
36	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
37	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
38	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	378	Audioboom	62
39	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
40	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	638	Acast	69
41	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
42	Summat in t'Air	Yorkshire Air Ambulance	Society & Culture	5	Captivate	69
43	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	141	Megaphone	68
44	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
45	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
46	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	196	Spotify for Podcasters	27
47	The Stephen Howson Podcast	Stephen Howson	Society & Culture	13	Spotify for Podcasters	42
48	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
49	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
50	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
51	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
52	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
53	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	88	Libsyn	62
54	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
55	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
56	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
57	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
58	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
59	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
60	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
61	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
62	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
63	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	48	RedCircle	73
64	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
65	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
66	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
67	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
68	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
69	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	97	Acast	59
70	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
71	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	91	Megaphone	63
72	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	212	Megaphone	38
73	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
74	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	400	Buzzsprout	83
75	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
76	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
77	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	32
78	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	159	Omny Studio	69
79	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
80	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
81	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
82	A Eleição Mais Louca de Sempre	Observador	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	63
83	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
84	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
85	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
86	MimmPodcast \| پادکست میم	مهدی عباسی	Society & Culture	57	Spreaker	68
87	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	59	Libsyn	42
88	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	53
89	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	429	Audioboom	48
90	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
91	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
92	Hateland	ARD	Society & Culture	15	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	63
93	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	69	Triton Digital	63
94	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
95	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
96	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
97	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
98	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
99	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	695	BBC	28
100	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68

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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