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 Aug 2026

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08/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 174

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:42:22

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Audible (2 shows)

5. Sky News (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (7 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
2	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
3	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
7	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
8	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
9	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
10	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
11	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
13	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
20	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
21	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
22	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
23	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
24	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	258	WideOrbit	48
25	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
26	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
27	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
28	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
29	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
30	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
31	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
32	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
33	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
34	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
35	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
36	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
37	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
38	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
39	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
40	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
41	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
42	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
43	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
44	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
45	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
46	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
48	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
49	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
50	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
51	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	300	WideOrbit	68
52	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
53	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
54	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
55	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
56	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
57	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
58	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
59	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
60	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
61	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
62	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
63	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
64	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
65	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
66	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
67	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
68	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
69	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
70	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
71	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
72	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
73	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	397	Buzzsprout	83
74	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
75	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
76	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
77	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
80	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
81	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
82	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
83	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
84	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
85	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
86	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
87	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	55	Libsyn	53
88	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
89	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
90	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	211	Megaphone	38
91	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
92	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf	Society & Culture	13	Acast	73
93	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
94	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
95	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
96	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
97	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
98	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
99	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
100	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53

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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