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 27 Feb 2025

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02/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 198

Frequency: every 47 days

Duration: 00:43:18

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (13 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. CBC (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (20 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
5	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
6	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
7	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
8	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
9	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	697	Megaphone	53
10	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
11	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
12	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
13	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
15	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
18	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
19	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
20	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
21	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
22	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
23	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
24	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
25	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1188	Acast	59
26	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
27	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
28	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
29	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
30	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
31	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
32	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
33	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
34	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
35	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
36	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
37	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
38	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
39	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
40	The Frost Tapes	Wilfred Frost, David Paradine Productions Ltd	Society & Culture	21	Simplecast	79
41	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
42	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
43	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
44	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
45	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
46	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
48	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
49	It's Reigning Men	Daniel Rosney	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
50	Love Bombed	BBC Local Radio	Society & Culture	34	BBC	39
51	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
52	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
53	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
54	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
55	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
56	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
57	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	188	Ximalaya	53
58	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
59	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	83	Spotify for Podcasters	32
60	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
61	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
62	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
63	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
64	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
65	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
66	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
67	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
68	Extraordinary Stories	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	45	Omny Studio	79
69	Privateer Station: War In Ukraine	Privateer	Society & Culture	491	Spreaker	53
70	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	353	Spotify for Podcasters	38
71	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	93	WideOrbit	68
72	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
73	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
74	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
75	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
76	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
77	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
78	Who Robs A Banksy?	Podimo & Message Heard	Society & Culture	10	Audioboom	53
79	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
80	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	522	Spreaker	43
81	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
83	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
84	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
85	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
86	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
87	Family Lore	Audacy	History	27	WideOrbit	73
88	Supernatural Scotland The Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Mark Smith	Society & Culture	36	RSS.com	47
89	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
90	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
91	That's What People Do	That's What People Do	Society & Culture	207	Acast	43
92	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
93	The All or Nothing Podcast with Billy Moore	Billy Moore	Society & Culture	99	Spotify for Podcasters	22
94	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
95	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
96	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
97	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
98	True Crime Uncut - Vodcast	The Uncut Network	Society & Culture	2	Spotify for Podcasters	52
99	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
100	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63

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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