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 Sep 2026

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09/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 217

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:40:00

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Sky News (2 shows)

5. The Guardian (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	42	BBC	58
2	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
3	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	149	Acast	73
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	824	Megaphone	53
6	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
7	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	456	Acast	74
10	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
11	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	227	Acast	43
12	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
13	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1009	Simplecast	38
14	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
17	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
18	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
19	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
20	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
21	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
22	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
23	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
24	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
25	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	194	ART19	37
26	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
27	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
28	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	55	Captivate	63
29	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
30	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	219	Acast	79
31	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
32	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
33	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
34	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
35	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
36	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
37	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
38	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	696	BBC	28
39	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
40	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	63
41	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
42	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
43	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
44	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
45	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
46	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	43
48	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	331	WideOrbit	68
49	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
50	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	231	PRX	79
51	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
52	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
53	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
54	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
55	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
56	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
57	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
58	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
59	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
60	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
61	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	204	Simplecast	58
62	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
63	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	323	Simplecast	53
64	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
65	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
66	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
67	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
68	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
69	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
70	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
71	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
72	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
73	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1069	Acast	69
74	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
75	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
76	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
77	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
78	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
79	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
80	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
81	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	979	Megaphone	52
82	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
83	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
84	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
85	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
86	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
87	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
88	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
89	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
90	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
91	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
92	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
93	The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	19	BBC	33
94	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
95	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
96	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
97	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
98	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
99	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
100	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	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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