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 Oct 2026

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10/30/2026

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Episodes: 154

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:41:39

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (6 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (4 shows)

3. The Observer (2 shows)

4. BBC World Service (2 shows)

5. Audible Original (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. Megaphone (12 shows)

3. BBC (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	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	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	272	WideOrbit	48
5	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
6	METRO with Sarah Koenig	Serial Productions & The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	58
7	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
8	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
9	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
10	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
13	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	236	Acast	43
14	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
15	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	33	Libsyn	68
16	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
17	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
18	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
19	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
20	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
21	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
22	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
23	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
24	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
25	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
26	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
27	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
28	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
29	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
30	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
31	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
32	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
33	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
34	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	63
35	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
36	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
37	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
38	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
39	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
40	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
41	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
42	PSNI Beyond the Badge	Police Service of Northern Ireland	Society & Culture	4	Podbean	52
43	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
44	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
45	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
46	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
47	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
48	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
49	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
50	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
51	Famously	The Upshot	Society & Culture	1	Megaphone	48
52	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
53	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
54	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
55	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
56	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	69
57	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
58	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
59	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	88	Spotify for Podcasters	52
60	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
61	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
62	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
63	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
64	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
65	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
66	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
67	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
68	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
70	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
71	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
72	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
73	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
74	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
75	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	675	Acast	69
76	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
77	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
78	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	327	Simplecast	53
79	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
80	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
81	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
82	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
83	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
84	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
85	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
86	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
87	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	92	Acast	89
88	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
89	The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)	TTT Media	Society & Culture	5	ART19	58
90	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	83	Acast	74
91	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
92	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	The Guild of Ghostly Grounds	Society & Culture	5	Captivate	73
93	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
94	Mysteries and Monsters	Mysteries and Monsters	Society & Culture	434	Audioboom	48
95	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
96	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
97	Под куполом	Ivan Makridin	Society & Culture	5	Podbean	53
98	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
99	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
100	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78

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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