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 Sep 2026

Country

Main category

Sub category

Date

09/29/2026

Average data

Episodes: 211

Frequency: every 35 days

Duration: 00:40:27

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (6 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (26 shows)

2. BBC (15 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 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	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	824	Megaphone	53
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
7	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
8	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	102	BBC	53
9	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
10	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
11	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	4	Acast	79
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	456	Acast	74
13	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
14	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	306	Megaphone	42
15	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	227	Acast	43
16	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1009	Simplecast	38
18	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
19	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	261	WideOrbit	48
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	531	ART19	68
21	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
22	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	435	Megaphone	32
24	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	55	Captivate	63
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
27	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway Details temporarily unavailable	Sky News	Society & Culture	10	Captivate	42
28	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1194	Acast	59
29	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	219	Acast	79
30	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
31	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
32	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	30	ART19	63
33	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
34	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
35	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
36	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
37	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
38	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
39	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
40	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
41	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	266	Spreaker	69
42	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
43	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
44	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	50	Megaphone	48
45	Embedded	NPR	Society & Culture	204	Simplecast	58
46	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
47	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
48	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	265	Acast	69
49	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	331	WideOrbit	68
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	372	Megaphone	43
51	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
52	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
53	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	73
54	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
55	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
56	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	696	BBC	28
57	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
58	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
59	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	231	PRX	79
60	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
61	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	323	Simplecast	53
62	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
63	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
64	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
65	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	84	Spotify for Podcasters	52
68	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
69	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
70	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	50	Acast	94
71	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
72	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
73	JFK The Enduring Secret	Jeff Crudele	Society & Culture	404	Buzzsprout	83
74	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
75	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
76	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
77	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
78	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	67	Acast	83
79	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
80	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1069	Acast	69
81	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	979	Megaphone	52
82	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	151	Spotify for Podcasters	52
83	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
84	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
85	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
86	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	90	Libsyn	62
87	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	79	Acast	74
88	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
89	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	18	ART19	63
90	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
91	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
93	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
94	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	430	Audioboom	48
95	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	22	ART19	73
96	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
97	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	103	PRX	64
98	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
99	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
100	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	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.
Explore more data on podcast rankings by diving into other categories and countries, and stay ahead in the ever-changing podcast scene.

Previous charts Next charts

About Methodology Contact Support me Privacy Policy Legal Notice