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 2026

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07/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 181

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:38:20

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (9 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
2	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
3	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
4	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
7	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
8	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
9	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	824	Megaphone	53
10	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
11	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	456	Acast	74
14	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	63
15	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1009	Simplecast	38
17	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
21	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
22	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
23	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
24	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
27	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
28	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	380	Spreaker	84
29	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
30	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	227	Acast	43
31	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
32	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
33	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
34	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
35	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
36	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
37	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	42	BBC	58
39	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
40	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	219	Acast	79
41	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
42	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
43	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
44	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
45	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
46	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
47	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
48	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
49	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1069	Acast	69
50	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
51	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
53	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
54	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
55	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
56	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	18	ART19	63
58	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	194	ART19	37
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
61	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
62	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
63	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	231	PRX	79
64	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	43
65	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
66	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
67	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
68	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
69	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
70	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
71	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
72	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
73	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
74	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
75	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
76	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
77	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
78	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
79	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
80	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
81	Gay Girl Gone	CBC	Society & Culture	8	Triton Digital	59
82	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
83	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
84	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
85	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
86	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
87	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
88	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	55	Captivate	63
89	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
90	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
91	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
92	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
93	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
94	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
95	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
96	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
97	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
98	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	979	Megaphone	52
99	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	204	Simplecast	58
100	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64

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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