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 2026

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10/28/2026

Average data

Episodes: 182

Frequency: every 31 days

Duration: 00:42:22

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. The Guardian (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	128	BBC	38
2	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
3	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
4	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
5	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	58
6	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	708	Megaphone	53
8	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
9	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	451	Acast	74
11	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	32	Libsyn	68
12	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	271	WideOrbit	48
13	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
14	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
15	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
17	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
18	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
19	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
20	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
22	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
24	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
25	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
26	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
27	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	63
28	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
29	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
30	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
32	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
33	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	27	American Public Media	62
34	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
35	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
36	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
37	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
38	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
39	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
40	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
41	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
42	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
43	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
44	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
45	PSNI Beyond the Badge	Police Service of Northern Ireland	Society & Culture	4	Podbean	52
46	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
47	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
48	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
49	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	143	N/A	N/A
50	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
51	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
52	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
53	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	7	RedCircle	69
54	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	83	Acast	74
55	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
56	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
57	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
58	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
59	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
60	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
61	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
62	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
63	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
64	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
65	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
66	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
67	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
68	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	88	Spotify for Podcasters	52
69	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
70	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	196	Simplecast	58
71	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
72	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
73	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
74	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
75	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
76	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	326	Simplecast	53
77	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
78	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	673	Acast	69
79	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
80	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
81	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	Society & Culture	5	Captivate	73
82	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
83	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	166	Acast	69
84	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
85	JULIE IN GENDERLAND	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	11	Substack	53
86	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	70	Acast	83
87	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	305	WideOrbit	68
88	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
89	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
90	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
91	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
92	The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	15	ART19	52
93	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	192	Ximalaya	53
94	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
95	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
96	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
97	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
98	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
99	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	68
100	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73

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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