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 May 2026

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05/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 167

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:41:07

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
6	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
8	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
9	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
10	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
11	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
14	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
17	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
18	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
19	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
20	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
21	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
22	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
24	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
25	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
26	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
27	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
28	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
29	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
30	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
31	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
32	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
33	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
34	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
35	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
36	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
37	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
38	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
39	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
40	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
41	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
42	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
43	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
46	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
47	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
48	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
49	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
50	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
51	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
52	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
53	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
54	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
55	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
56	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
57	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
58	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
59	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
60	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
61	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
62	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
63	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
64	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
65	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
69	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
70	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
71	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
72	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
73	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
74	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
75	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
77	The Church Studio Presents Miss O'Dell: Abbey Road to Tulsa Time	The Church Studio	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	58
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	Invisible Handcuffs: Unchaining Economics	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	2	Podigee	48
80	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
81	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
82	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
83	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
84	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
85	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
86	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
87	Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	3	Podigee	58
88	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
89	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
90	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	27	Libsyn	73
91	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
92	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	159	Simplecast	73
93	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	27
94	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
95	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
96	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
97	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
98	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
99	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
100	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42

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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