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 Oct 2026

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10/31/2026

Average data

Episodes: 150

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:41:23

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

3. Jack Laurence (2 shows)

4. Sky News (2 shows)

5. Forbidden Knowledge Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (27 shows)

2. BBC (13 shows)

3. Megaphone (11 shows)

4. Omny Studio (8 shows)

5. ART19 (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	132	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	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	161	Megaphone	48
8	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
9	Child on the Line	Natalie Dormer	Society & Culture	4	Libsyn	73
10	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
11	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
12	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
15	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	237	Acast	43
16	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	105	Acast	79
17	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
18	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
19	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
20	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
21	Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow	Society & Culture	33	Libsyn	68
22	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
23	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
24	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
25	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
26	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
27	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
28	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
29	Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws	Society & Culture	91	Spotify for Podcasters	32
30	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
31	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
32	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
33	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
34	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
35	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
36	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
37	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
38	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
39	Falling Tree	Falling Tree	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	63
40	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
41	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
42	Famously	The Upshot	Society & Culture	1	Megaphone	48
43	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
44	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
45	REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell	Society & Culture	54	Acast	94
46	No One Is Coming	Ten Cats Media	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
47	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
48	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
49	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
50	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	517	BBC	28
51	PSNI Beyond the Badge	Police Service of Northern Ireland	Society & Culture	4	Podbean	52
52	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
53	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
54	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
55	Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	64
56	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
57	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
58	Stuff Matters with Ed Conway	Sky News	Society & Culture	9	Captivate	42
59	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
60	Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR	Society & Culture	169	Omny Studio	69
61	Question Everything	KCRW	Society & Culture	90	Omny Studio	63
62	Still Life	Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin	Society & Culture	3	RSS.com	52
63	The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier	Society & Culture	131	Acast	79
64	Theories of the Third Kind	Theories of the Third Kind	Society & Culture	306	WideOrbit	68
65	Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	88	Spotify for Podcasters	52
66	Deep Secrets	Nothing To See Here, Inc.	Society & Culture	8	RedCircle	69
67	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
68	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	16	PRX	69
69	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
70	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
71	The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	676	Acast	69
72	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
73	On Hold	Storied	Society & Culture	7	Buzzsprout	73
74	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
76	The Poet	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	73
77	Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	10	Acast	74
78	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
79	Behind The Story Show	Jelani Gonzalez	Society & Culture	71	Buzzsprout	59
80	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
81	Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	92	Acast	89
82	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
83	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
84	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
85	Patient 11	Sky News	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	59
86	TheBlueTickShow	THE BLUETICK SHOW	Society & Culture	186	Spotify for Podcasters	58
87	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
88	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
89	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
90	The Good Trouble Show \| Unidentified Flying Objects & UFO Disclosure	Matt Ford \| UFO & UAP Investigative Journalist	Society & Culture	139	Spreaker	79
91	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
92	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
93	Harley Conversations	Guy Kiddey	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
94	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
95	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	327	Simplecast	53
96	Signals to Danger	Daniel Fox	Society & Culture	83	Acast	74
97	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
98	Strange Stories UK	DBC	Society & Culture	278	Buzzsprout	58
99	Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine	DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	68
100	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	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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