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 31 Jul 2025

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07/31/2025

Average data

Episodes: 185

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:42:18

Top 5 authors

1. Tortoise Media (9 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

3. BBC (3 shows)

4. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

5. iHeartPodcasts (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (29 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Megaphone (12 shows)

4. Omny Studio (9 shows)

5. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Top Comment	BBC	News	100	BBC	48
2	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
3	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
4	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
5	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
6	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	444	Acast	74
7	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	701	Megaphone	53
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	102	BBC	38
10	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	940	Simplecast	38
11	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	97	Acast	79
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	307	Megaphone	42
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	436	Megaphone	32
15	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
16	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	50	RedCircle	63
17	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	408	Megaphone	63
18	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	67	Spreaker	84
19	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
20	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	353	ART19	68
21	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
22	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	14	BBC	53
23	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	514	BBC	28
24	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
25	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
26	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1195	Acast	59
27	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
28	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
29	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	281	Megaphone	43
30	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
31	Afterlives: Marsha P. Johnson	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	63
32	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
33	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	265	Spreaker	69
34	The Lodge	RNZ	Society & Culture	10	Acast	83
35	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	History	196	ART19	37
36	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
37	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1956	Omny Studio	42
38	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	86	Spotify for Podcasters	32
39	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	37	BBC	58
40	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
41	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
42	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	155	Megaphone	63
43	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
44	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	380	Audioboom	62
45	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
46	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
47	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	412	BBC	28
48	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
49	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK	Society & Culture	41	Spotify for Podcasters	58
50	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
51	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
52	Plank Of The Week	Talk	News	98	Acast	59
53	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	129	Acast	79
54	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
55	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
56	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
57	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
58	Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted	Osbourne Media	Society & Culture	60	Libsyn	42
59	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	647	Acast	69
60	Blethered	Sean McDonald	Society & Culture	261	Acast	63
61	The All or Nothing Podcast with Billy Moore	Billy Moore	Society & Culture	99	Spotify for Podcasters	22
62	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
63	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
64	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	162	Omny Studio	69
65	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
66	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
67	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
68	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	354	Spotify for Podcasters	38
69	Bitesized Folklore	Jodie Paterson	Society & Culture	31	Captivate	73
70	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
71	Legacy: Sports Stories	Stak	Society & Culture	45	Acast	89
72	Antisocial Economics	Sarah Kerr	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
73	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
74	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
75	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
76	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
77	Live Wire: The Loud Life and Shocking Murder of Alan Berg	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	68
78	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
79	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	214	Megaphone	38
80	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
81	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	53
82	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
83	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	24	American Public Media	62
84	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
85	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	75	Spreaker	43
86	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
87	Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters	Society & Culture	766	Spreaker	64
88	The Trapped	ITV News	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	74
89	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
90	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	4	ART19	63
91	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
92	What's Missing	Casefile Presents	Society & Culture	10	Acast	73
93	Trumped	BBC Radio Scotland	Society & Culture	9	BBC	33
94	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
95	The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden	Society & Culture	131	Buzzsprout	62
96	The Squarepeg Podcast	Amy Richards	Society & Culture	159	Libsyn	78
97	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey	Health & Fitness	142	Captivate	79
98	Amanda Wakeley: Style DNA	Hatch 108 Productions	Arts	110	Spotify for Podcasters	42
99	There's A Lot I Haven't Asked	Hannah Donelon	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	48
100	Zero Ambitions Podcast	Jeff and Dan	Society & Culture	185	Transistor	53

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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