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 Oct 2025

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10/28/2025

Average data

Episodes: 203

Frequency: every 249 days

Duration: 00:47:16

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (5 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. BBC (2 shows)

5. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (14 shows)

3. Megaphone (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
2	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
3	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
4	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
5	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
6	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
8	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
9	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
10	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
11	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
12	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
14	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
17	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
18	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
19	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
20	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
21	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
22	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
23	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
24	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
25	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
26	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
28	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
29	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
30	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
31	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
32	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
33	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
34	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
35	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
36	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
37	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
38	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
39	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
40	Witness: Sex, Lies and Streaming	news.com.au	Society & Culture	35	Omny Studio	89
41	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
42	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
43	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	43
44	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
45	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
46	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
47	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
48	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
49	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
50	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
51	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
52	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	22	Buzzsprout	42
53	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
54	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
55	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
56	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
57	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
58	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
59	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	47	RedCircle	73
60	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
61	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	428	Audioboom	48
62	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
63	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
64	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
65	Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	22	Omny Studio	68
66	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
67	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
68	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
69	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
70	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	96	Acast	59
71	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
72	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
73	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
74	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
75	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
76	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
77	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
78	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
79	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
80	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
81	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	292	Audioboom	58
82	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	86	Libsyn	62
83	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
84	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	43	Acast	89
85	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
86	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
87	Reflector	Longview	Society & Culture	32	Megaphone	48
88	The Brohio Podcast	Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy	Society & Culture	521	Spreaker	43
89	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
90	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
91	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
92	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
93	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism	Society & Culture	16	Substack	48
94	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
95	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	77	Acast	74
96	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	352	Spotify for Podcasters	38
97	The Long Time Academy	Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	79
98	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
99	Time Slipped	Nikki Rich	Society & Culture	17	Captivate	78
100	The Corrymeela Podcast	Corrymeela	Society & Culture	43	Squarespace	58

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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