Top Documentary Podcasts in Australia

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for Australia, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 1, 2026.

1

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

2

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

3

What It Was Like

Superreal

4

Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

5

What I survived

Jack Laurence

6

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

7

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

8

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

9

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

10

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

11

Otherworld

Otherworld

12

Focus: Adults in the Room

KUOW News and Information

13

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

14

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

15

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

16

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

17

The Flood

The Australian

18

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

19

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

20

World of Secrets

BBC

21

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

22

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

23

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

24

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

25

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

26

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

27

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

28

OnlyFantasy

Audible

29

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

30

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

31

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

32

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

33

How I Survived

That's Life!

34

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

35

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

36

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

37

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

38

The Commune

Stuff Audio

39

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

40

I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?

BBC Sounds

41

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

42

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

43

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

44

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

45

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

46

Noble

Audiochuck

47

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

48

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

49

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

50

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

51

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

52

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

53

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

54

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

55

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

56

Paper Trail

ProPublica

57

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

58

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

59

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

60

Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial

BBC Sounds

61

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

62

Question Everything

Brian Reed

63

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

64

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

65

Into The Dirt

Tortoise Media

66

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

67

Sold a Story

APM Reports

68

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

69

Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage | Global Issues | Current Affairs

Secrets & Spies

70

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

71

Embedded

NPR

72

Days Like These

ABC Australia

73

Pig Iron

Tortoise Media

74

Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast

Clem Dallaway

75

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

76

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

77

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

78

File on 4 Investigates

BBC Radio 4

79

Incredible Lives With Cainey

Michael Cain

80

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

81

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

82

What's Missing

Casefile Presents

83

SCAMMERLAND

Superreal

84

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

85

The Lodge

RNZ

86

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

87

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

88

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

89

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

90

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

91

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

92

Pariah

Tortoise Media

93

Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott

Zara McDermott

94

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

95

JOURNEY

Ryan Wolf

96

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

97

The Trap

Victorian Women's Trust

98

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

99

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

100

Radio National Presents

ABC Australia

101

After Bondi: Survivor Stories

Maddie Brygel

102

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

103

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

104

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

105

Elon's Spies

Tortoise Media

106

Fighting Crime

Arnold Ventures

107

Australian VBAC Stories

Australian VBAC Stories

108

Take Me To Your Leader!

ABC Australia

109

The Brohio Podcast

Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Famous Murders, Cryptozoology, Strange Occurrences, Monsters, UFOs, True Crime, Demons, Occult, Urban Legends, Comedy

110

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

111

Extreme

BBC

112

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

113

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

114

The Gas Man

Tortoise Media

115

Extraordinary Stories

Mamamia Podcasts

116

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

117

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

118

I Was Actually There

ABC Australia

119

肥宅老司機

老司與老機

120

Aussie Afterlife

Aussie Afterlife- Hosted by Sam: Paranormal Investigator and Sole Creator of A.A

121

I Talk To Ghosts

Jennifer Page

122

The Crimes of Margo Freshwater

Sony Music Entertainment

123

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

124

The Wandering Road

Chris

125

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

126

The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic

Tortoise Media

127

On podcast پادکست آن

mersen

128

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

129

Curse of: America’s Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

130

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

131

The Social Lives of Shoes

Footwear Research Network

132

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

133

The Unconventional Soldier

theunconventionalsoldier

134

The Cows Are Mad

BBC Radio 4

135

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

136

Coffeehouse Crime

Coffeehouse Crime

137

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Originals

138

Injustices

Louie Media

139

Left To Their Own Devices

Toronto Star

140

Bailey Sarian

Bailey Sarian

141

Salt of the Earth Farm Stories

Grigg Media

142

A Caça ao Estripador de Lisboa

Observador

143

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera Network

144

Ça peut vous arriver

RTL

145

SuperHuman

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

146

Profile

BBC Radio 4

147

Death on the Lot

Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment

148

人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材

厭世姬＆邊角料

149

The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

150

Mental Health Trailblazers: Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up

Indrias Kassaye, Minority Fellowship Program at the American Nurses Association

151

Storytime

Storytime

152

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

153

Democracy After Disaster

Kate Lawrence

154

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

155

The Redefector

Audiochuck

156

Um Rei na Boca do Inferno

Observador

157

1983: Portugal à Queima-Roupa

Observador

158

Prisoncast!

WBEZ

159

R.M.Williams OUTBACK

R.M.Williams Publishing

160

Trapped in Treatment

iHeartPodcasts and Warner Bros

161

TheBlueTickShow

THE BLUETICK SHOW

162

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163

The Obit Project

Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

164

Blethered

Sean McDonald

165

老高和小茉最新更新

老高与小茉高速更新

166

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

167

Collapse

Stuff Audio

168

Nobody Dies Here: Inside Melbourne's Medically Supervised Injecting Room

Alongside Radio

169

Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

Danny Brown

170

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

171

Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, True Crime, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!

Byte & Pieces

172

ゆとりっ娘たちのたわごと

ゆとたわ

173

Child

BBC Radio 4

174

Ghost Herd

KUOW News and Information

175

AFTER DARK | True Scary, Paranormal, Ghost, Supernatural & Mysterious Stories

True Crime, Mysteries, Paranormal, Unexplained, True Scary Stories

176

Cults and Secret Societies

Forbidden Knowledge Network

177

The Good Listener Podcast

John Hadden

178

Adopt Perspective Adoption Podcast

Dr Jo-Ann Sparrow for Jigsaw Queensland

179

The Missing Sister

iHeartPodcasts

180

Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies

Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann

181

Collapse: Disaster in Surfside

Treefort Media & Miami Herald

182

奇了怪了 | 真·奇幻访谈

哈喽怪谈

183

پادکست داستانی ترپند /TarPand

Tarpand

184

The Relocated South African | Emigration stories

Jan Hugo - Emigration stories expert

185

Pipeline

Daily Mail

186

The Consciousness Cassettes

Ky Dickens

187

Svetlana! Svetlana!

iHeartPodcasts

188

The Response

Shareable

189

Seriously...

BBC Radio 4

190

Revisiting The Gay Life

David Boyer

191

Getting Free

International Beit Din

192

Motives and Methods - True Crime Stories

Stuart Hull

193

TasteSpotting 迷幻電台

米

194

24/7 Self Affirmations and Meditations

HustleStudios Podcast Network

195

Closing The Net

ACCCE

196

My Phantom Memory with Scott Mikita

Silver Podcast Network

197

Fatal Fantasy

Sony Music Entertainment

198

Seelenfänger

Bayerischer Rundfunk

199

The Curious Soul

Cristina Malavenda & Marty Go

200

The Truckin with Podge Podcast

Ryan Hocking

201

Debt Heads

Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster

202

Stories with Matt Cullen

Matt Cullen

203

The Vanguard Wall Podcast

The Vanguard Wall Podcast

204

Σκληρές αλήθειες

LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ

205

Our Common Nature

WNYC

206

MeddlCast

Rainero Winklero

207

Inside the Reading Gap

Thinking Reading

208

An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg

209

The Truth

Media Network

210

Resistance

Gimlet

211

高雄熱 Kaohsiung Hot

威廉&寶麗娜

212

The Unsolved Files

Forbidden Knowledge Network

213

Innocence Project

Margot Van Hoorebeke

214

夜談社

夜芷

215

Bedrock, USA

iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg CityLab

216

When The Wolves Came

Meanings of Democracy Lab

217

Escafandro

Rádio Escafandro

218

The Other Latif

WNYC Studios

219

Strangeology

Strangeology Podcast

220

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

221

The Mark Schulein Passion Project

Mark Schulein

222

Lore Lodge Podcast

Lodge

223

Canary: The Washington Post Investigates

The Washington Post

224

Atonement: The John Paulk Story

iHeartPodcasts

225

Signals to Danger

Daniel Fox

226

The Squarepeg Podcast

Amy Richards

227

Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic

DW

228

バービーとおしんり研究所

TBS RADIO

229

Diary of A Ghost Hunter |WTAF Paranormal Files

Anne and Renata | Frightfully Good Productions

230

Chameleon: Dr. Miracle

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

231

Reasons We Serve: Police Careers & Officer Experience

Reasons We Serve

232

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

Tortoise Media

233

ParaPeculiar

ND ParaHouse

234

Mystery Archives Episodes

Mystery Archives Episodes

235

No Place Like Home

Audacy Podcasts

236

Chroniques Obscures

Neoxi

237

I Have A Theory

Adella Afadi

238

The Greatest Stories Never Told

Craig Clemens, Roger Love

239

A Eleição Mais Louca de Sempre

Observador

240

Breech Birth Podcast

Sasha Hopkins

241

Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país

Podium Podcast

242

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

243

Forbidden Knowledge Podcast

Forbidden Knowledge Network

244

Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

VPM & Story Mechanics

245

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

246

Storytime with Seth Rogen

Earwolf & Seth Rogen

247

The Hardest Story with Jay Shipston

Jay Shipston

248

Dublin Dialogues

Dublin Dialogues

249

De 9 Levens van Yassine

Radio 1

250

Saving Apollo 13 👨‍🚀

Forensic Engineer Sean Brady — from Brady Heywood

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