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 août 2026

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08/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 146

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:40:34

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. Sky News (2 shows)

5. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (28 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	698	Megaphone	53
2	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
3	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
4	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	259	WideOrbit	48
8	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
9	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	440	Acast	74
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	224	Acast	43
13	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
14	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
15	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	303	Megaphone	42
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	938	Simplecast	38
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
21	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
22	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
23	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	33	BBC	58
24	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
25	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	432	Megaphone	32
26	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
27	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
28	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	96	BBC	53
29	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
30	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
31	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
32	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
33	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
34	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
35	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
36	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
37	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
38	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1189	Acast	59
39	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
40	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
41	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
42	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	195	Spotify for Podcasters	27
43	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	32
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	262	Spreaker	69
45	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
46	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
47	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
48	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
49	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
50	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
51	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	94	Acast	79
52	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
53	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
54	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
55	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	300	WideOrbit	68
56	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
57	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	149	Spotify for Podcasters	52
58	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
59	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	64	Acast	83
60	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
61	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
62	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
63	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	158	Omny Studio	69
64	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
65	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	48	Megaphone	48
66	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
67	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
68	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	83	Unknown	63
69	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	188	PRX	79
70	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
71	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	33	Omny Studio	83
72	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
73	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
74	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
75	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
76	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
77	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
78	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
79	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
80	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	348	Simplecast	78
81	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
82	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
83	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
84	Tango Juliet Foxtrot - the police podcast	Iain Donnelly	Society & Culture	98	Podbean	37
85	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
86	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
87	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	53
88	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
89	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	636	Acast	69
90	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
91	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	52
92	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
93	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
94	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
95	Making Tracks Railway Podcast	Alasdair Stewart	Society & Culture	35	Buzzsprout	42
96	Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies	Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann	Society & Culture	8	Castos	52
97	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
98	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
99	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
100	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	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.

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