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 Aug 2026

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08/31/2026

Average data

Episodes: 163

Frequency: every 24 days

Duration: 00:38:39

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (9 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (7 shows)

3. BBC Sounds (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts (3 shows)

5. Sky News (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (16 shows)

3. Omny Studio (9 shows)

4. Megaphone (9 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	700	Megaphone	53
2	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
3	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
4	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
5	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
6	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
7	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
8	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Fiction	13	BBC	49
9	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	260	WideOrbit	48
10	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
11	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
12	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	305	Megaphone	42
13	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
14	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
15	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
16	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
17	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
18	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	19	Omny Studio	73
19	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	226	Acast	43
20	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
21	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
22	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
23	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	35	BBC	58
24	Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News	Society & Culture	54	Captivate	63
25	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
26	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
28	Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott	Zara McDermott	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	52
29	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
30	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
31	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
32	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1193	Acast	59
33	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
34	The Flood	The Australian	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	74
35	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
36	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
37	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
38	Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	33	Acast	69
39	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	411	BBC	28
40	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	142	Megaphone	68
41	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	513	BBC	28
42	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	85	Spotify for Podcasters	32
43	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
44	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	55	PRX	64
45	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	95	Acast	79
46	Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway	Society & Culture	197	Spotify for Podcasters	27
47	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	302	WideOrbit	68
48	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	264	Spreaker	69
49	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	49	Acast	94
50	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	280	Megaphone	43
51	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
52	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	696	BBC	28
53	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
54	The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	59
55	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	139	N/A	N/A
56	Made in China	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	5	BBC	49
57	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	150	Spotify for Podcasters	52
58	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
59	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
60	Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	59
61	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
62	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	160	Omny Studio	69
63	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	349	Simplecast	78
64	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
65	Question Everything	Brian Reed	Society & Culture	85	Unknown	63
66	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	128	Acast	79
67	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	21	ART19	73
68	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	89	Libsyn	62
69	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	163	Acast	69
70	SuperHuman	iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	53
71	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
72	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	65	Acast	83
73	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	189	PRX	79
74	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	73
75	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
76	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
77	Pariah	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	5	Acast	53
78	Bailey Sarian	Bailey Sarian	Society & Culture	158	Spreaker	43
79	The Missing Sister	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	53
80	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
81	Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	21	BBC	38
82	Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
83	The Land in Between	Global Reporting Centre	Society & Culture	6	PRX	84
84	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	274	Buzzsprout	58
85	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	97	Omny Studio	89
86	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	322	Simplecast	53
87	Sound, Light & Frequency	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	34	Omny Studio	83
88	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
89	The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	643	Acast	69
90	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
91	A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins	Society & Culture	19	Acast	63
92	The Rewriting Humanity	Jim Walsh	Society & Culture	20	Podbean	48
93	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
94	Outpost Podcasts	Outpost Studios	Society & Culture	12	Substack	43
95	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	13	PRX	69
96	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
97	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
98	Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces	Society & Culture	1000	Spreaker	79
99	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
100	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64

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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