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 Jul 2025

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07/27/2025

Average data

Episodes: 220

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:41:36

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (11 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (19 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
5	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
7	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	102	BBC	38
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
10	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
11	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	55	BBC	48
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
16	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
18	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
19	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
21	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
22	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
23	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
24	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
25	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
26	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
27	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
28	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
29	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
30	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
31	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
32	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
33	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
34	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
35	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
36	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
37	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
39	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
40	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
41	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
42	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
43	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
44	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
45	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
46	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
47	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
48	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
49	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
50	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
51	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
52	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
53	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
54	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
55	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
56	Trumped	BBC Radio Scotland	Society & Culture	9	BBC	33
57	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
58	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
59	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
60	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	697	BBC	28
61	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
62	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
63	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
64	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
65	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
66	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
67	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	429	RedCircle	59
68	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
69	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
70	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
71	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
72	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
73	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	110	Spotify for Podcasters	42
74	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
75	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
76	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
77	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
78	There's A Lot I Haven't Asked	Hannah Donelon	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	48
79	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	98	Acast	59
80	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
81	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
82	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
83	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
84	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
85	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
86	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
87	Call Bethel	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	6	Acast	53
88	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	647	Acast	69
89	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
90	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
91	Canal Café Brasil	Luciano Pires & Café Brasil Editorial Ltda	Society & Culture	2481	Omny Studio	43
92	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	128	Spotify for Podcasters	38
93	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
94	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
95	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
96	SCAMMERLAND	Superreal	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
97	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	430	Audioboom	48
98	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	31	Libsyn	68
99	The Other Latif	WNYC Studios	Society & Culture	8	Simplecast	69
100	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79

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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