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 30 May 2026

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05/30/2026

Average data

Episodes: 162

Frequency: every 248 days

Duration: 00:42:12

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (10 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (8 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (3 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. BBC (17 shows)

3. Megaphone (10 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
2	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
3	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
4	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
5	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
6	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
7	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
8	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
9	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
10	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	222	Acast	43
13	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
14	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
15	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
17	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
18	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
19	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
20	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
22	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	19	Captivate	73
23	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
24	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
25	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
26	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	82	Spotify for Podcasters	32
27	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
28	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
29	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
30	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
31	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
32	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
33	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	93	Acast	79
34	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	32	Omny Studio	83
35	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
36	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
37	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
38	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	48	Acast	94
39	The Church Studio Presents Miss O'Dell: Abbey Road to Tulsa Time	The Church Studio	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	58
40	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
41	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	32	BBC	58
42	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	279	Megaphone	43
43	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
44	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
45	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
46	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
47	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	194	Spotify for Podcasters	27
48	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
49	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	511	BBC	28
50	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
51	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	263	Spreaker	69
52	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
53	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	157	Omny Studio	69
54	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
55	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
56	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
57	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
58	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
59	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	52
60	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
61	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
62	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
63	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	30	Libsyn	79
64	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	154	Megaphone	63
65	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
66	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
67	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
68	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
69	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	635	Acast	69
70	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
71	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
72	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	347	Simplecast	78
73	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	81	Spotify for Podcasters	52
74	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	96	Omny Studio	89
75	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
76	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
77	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	82	Unknown	63
78	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	135	N/A	N/A
79	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	162	Acast	69
80	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
81	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
82	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	130	Buzzsprout	62
83	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
84	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
85	MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler	MAD THAT	Society & Culture	18	Acast	63
86	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
87	Death in Westminster	Planet B Productions	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	48
88	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	87	Libsyn	62
89	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
90	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
91	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
92	The Cows Are Mad	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	11	BBC	39
93	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	127	Acast	79
94	Invisible Handcuffs: Unchaining Economics	Katy Shields	Society & Culture	2	Podigee	48
95	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
96	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
97	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
98	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	267	Buzzsprout	58
99	The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories	Becky	Society & Culture	39	Spotify for Podcasters	27
100	The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things	Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox	Society & Culture	159	Simplecast	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.

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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