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 Oct 2026

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10/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 161

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:40:41

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Audible Original (2 shows)

5. BBC World Service (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (9 shows)

4. Simplecast (8 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
2	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
3	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
4	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	58
5	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
6	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
7	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
8	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
9	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	33	Libsyn	68
10	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
11	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
14	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
15	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
16	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
17	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
18	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
19	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
20	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
21	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	63
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
23	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
24	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
26	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
27	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
28	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
29	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
30	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
31	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
32	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
35	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
36	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
37	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
38	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
39	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
40	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
41	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
42	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
43	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
44	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
45	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
46	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
47	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
48	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
49	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
51	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
52	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	69
53	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
54	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
55	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
56	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
58	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
59	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
60	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	83	Acast	74
61	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
62	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
63	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
64	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
65	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
66	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
67	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	674	Acast	69
68	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
71	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
72	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	Society & Culture	5	Captivate	73
73	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
74	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
75	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
76	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
77	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
78	PSNI Beyond the Badge	Police Service of Northern Ireland	Society & Culture	4	Podbean	52
79	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
80	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
81	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
82	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
83	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
84	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
85	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	88	Spotify for Podcasters	52
86	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	68
87	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	326	Simplecast	53
88	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
89	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
90	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
91	Threshold	Auricle Productions	Society & Culture	147	Captivate	38
92	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
93	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	412	Buzzsprout	83
94	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	68
95	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
96	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
97	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
98	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
99	Adventures in Nutopia	David Bramwell	Society & Culture	28	Libsyn	58
100	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43

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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