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 Jul 2026

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07/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 154

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:38:20

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (8 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
2	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
3	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	103	BBC	38
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	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
9	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
10	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
11	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	63
12	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
13	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
14	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
17	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
18	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
19	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
21	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
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	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	228	Acast	43
26	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
27	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
28	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
29	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
30	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
31	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	21	Omny Studio	73
32	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	262	WideOrbit	48
33	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
34	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
35	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
36	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
37	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
38	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
39	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
40	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
41	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
42	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
43	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
44	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
45	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
46	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
47	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
49	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
50	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
51	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
52	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
53	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	140	N/A	N/A
55	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
56	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
57	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
58	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	14	PRX	69
59	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
60	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	350	Simplecast	78
61	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
62	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	190	PRX	79
63	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
64	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	66	Acast	83
65	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
66	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	648	Acast	69
67	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
68	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
69	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
70	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
71	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
72	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
73	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
74	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	83
75	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
76	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
77	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
78	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
79	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
80	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
81	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	79	Acast	74
82	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
83	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
84	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
85	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
86	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
87	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
88	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
89	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	193	Simplecast	58
90	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
91	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	34	Megaphone	48
92	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	86	Unknown	63
93	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
94	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
95	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
96	Undercurrent Stories Podcast: History, Music, Science & much more.	Undercurrent Stories Podcast	Society & Culture	204	Buzzsprout	52
97	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
98	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
99	Coining It	Global	Society & Culture	7	Captivate	53
100	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63

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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