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 28 Apr 2026

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04/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 149

Frequency: every 40 days

Duration: 00:42:50

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. iHeartPodcasts (4 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

5. The Telegraph (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (14 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
2	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
5	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
8	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
9	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
10	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
14	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
17	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
18	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
19	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
20	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
21	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
22	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
24	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
25	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
28	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
29	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
30	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
31	The Overturn	The Future Justice Project	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
33	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
34	Czarnobyl. Prawdziwa historia	Polskie Radio S.A.	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	43
35	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
36	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
37	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
38	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
39	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
40	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
41	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
42	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
43	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
44	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
45	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
46	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
47	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
48	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
49	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
50	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
51	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
52	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
53	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
54	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
55	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
56	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
57	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
58	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
59	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
60	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
61	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
62	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
63	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
64	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
65	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
66	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
67	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
68	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
70	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
71	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
72	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
73	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
74	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
75	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
76	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
77	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
78	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
79	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
80	Confessions of an Elite Athlete with Midge Purce	Vox Media	Sports	2	Megaphone	48
81	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
82	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
83	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
84	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
85	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
86	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
87	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
88	Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	98	Substack	38
89	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
90	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
91	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
92	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
93	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
94	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
95	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
96	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
97	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	27
98	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
99	On the Ground	Geographical	Society & Culture	3	Buzzsprout	38
100	Her Upper Hand	The Big Light / Greater Govanhill	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69

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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