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 29 Jun 2026

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06/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 171

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:37:51

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Omny Studio (13 shows)

4. Megaphone (11 shows)

5. ART19 (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
2	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
3	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
5	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
6	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
8	Real Unexplained Stories	Real Unexplained Stories	Society & Culture	16	Buzzsprout	73
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
11	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
12	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	236	Acast	43
13	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
14	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
17	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
18	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
19	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
20	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
21	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
22	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
23	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
24	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
25	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
27	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
28	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
29	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
30	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
31	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
32	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	38	Omny Studio	83
33	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
34	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
35	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
36	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	204	ART19	37
37	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
38	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
39	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
40	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
41	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
42	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
43	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
44	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
46	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
47	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
48	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
49	Power Plays	Human Rights Foundation	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	63
50	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
51	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
52	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
53	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
54	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
55	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
56	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
57	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
58	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
59	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
60	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
61	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
62	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
63	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
64	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
65	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
66	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
67	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
68	FONDS	FONDS	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
69	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
70	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
71	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
72	Woman Overboard	Katherine Sutherland	Society & Culture	3	Acast	49
73	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
74	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
75	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
76	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39
77	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	83	Acast	74
78	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	327	Simplecast	53
79	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
80	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
81	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
82	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	33	Libsyn	68
83	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
84	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
85	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
86	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
87	Inside the Reading Gap	Thinking Reading	Society & Culture	9	Podbean	48
88	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
89	I Serve	Foreign Policy	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	63
90	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
91	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
92	Who Robs A Banksy?	Podimo & Message Heard	Society & Culture	10	Audioboom	53
93	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
94	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
95	Ramble with Joe McGucken	RTÉ	Society & Culture	3	Omny Studio	59
96	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	9	Omny Studio	42
97	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
98	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
99	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
100	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62

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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