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 mai 2025

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05/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 186

Frequency: every 42 days

Duration: 00:42:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (12 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (19 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
2	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
3	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
4	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	Searching for America with Robyn Curnow	Robyn Curnow, Bleav	Society & Culture	58	Simplecast	58
8	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
9	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
10	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
11	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
12	White Men Can't Work!	Tim Samuels	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
13	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
14	The Unsettled Dead	Deborah Davies	Society & Culture	8	Podbean	53
15	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
19	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
20	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
21	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
22	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
23	13 Minutes Presents: Artemis II	BBC World Service	History	56	BBC	33
24	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
25	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
26	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
27	Amanda Wakeley: StyleDNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	109	Spotify for Podcasters	48
28	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
29	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
30	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
31	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
32	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
33	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
34	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
35	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
36	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
37	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
38	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
39	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
40	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
41	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
42	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
43	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
44	Short Cuts	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	249	BBC	33
45	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
46	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
47	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
48	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
49	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
50	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
51	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
52	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
53	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
56	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
57	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
58	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
59	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
60	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
61	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
62	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
63	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
64	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
65	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
66	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
67	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
68	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
69	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
72	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
73	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
74	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
75	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
76	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
77	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
78	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
79	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
80	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
81	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
82	Young Warriors	Ali Fraser	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
83	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
84	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
85	Storytime with Seth Rogen	Earwolf & Seth Rogen	Society & Culture	10	Simplecast	53
86	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
87	The Chunter Basha w/ Billy Billingham	Mark "Billy" Billingham	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	28
88	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
89	Spoiled Fruit: Faith & Power	John Williamson	Society & Culture	21	RedCircle	73
90	Hooked on Freddie	Wondery	Society & Culture	9	ART19	59
91	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
92	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
93	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
94	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
95	It's Reigning Men	Daniel Rosney	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
96	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
97	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
98	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	425	RedCircle	59
99	Division Street Revisited	Mary Schmich	Society & Culture	9	PRX	63
100	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	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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