Top Documentary Podcasts in Australia

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for Australia, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked November 12, 2026.

1

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

2

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

3

What I survived

Jack Laurence

4

The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen

Sony Music Entertainment

5

This Is Actually Happening

Audible Original

6

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

7

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

8

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

9

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

10

What It Was Like

Superreal

11

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

12

Otherworld

Otherworld

13

Act Two With Samantha Armytage

Samantha Armytage

14

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

15

Intrigue

BBC Radio 4

16

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

17

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

18

Sold a Story

APM Reports

19

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

BBC Sounds

20

World of Secrets

BBC

21

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

22

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

23

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

24

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

25

How I Survived

That's Life!

26

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

27

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

28

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

29

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

30

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

31

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

32

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

33

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

34

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

35

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

36

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

37

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

38

Hysterical

Audible Original | Pineapple Street Studios

39

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

40

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

41

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

42

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

43

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

44

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

45

OnlyFantasy

Audible Original

46

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

47

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

48

Inheritance

BBC World Service

49

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

50

Question Everything

KCRW

51

Paper Trail

ProPublica

52

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

53

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

54

The Commune

Stuff Audio

55

The Brohio Podcast

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

56

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

57

I Was Actually There

ABC Australia

58

Extraordinary Stories

Mamamia Podcasts

59

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

60

Famously

The Upshot

61

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

62

Noble

Audiochuck

63

The Lodge: CultProof

RNZ

64

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

65

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

66

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

67

The Flood

The Australian

68

SAS: The Shadow War

The Independent / Aurra Studios

69

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

70

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

71

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

72

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

73

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

74

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

75

Days Like These

ABC Australia

76

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

77

What's Missing

Casefile Presents

78

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

79

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

80

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

81

Embedded

NPR

82

The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

TTT Media

83

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

Secrets & Spies

84

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

85

SCAMMERLAND

Superreal

86

Sorry About The Kid

CBC

87

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

88

肥宅老司機

老司與老機

89

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

90

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

91

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

92

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

93

File on 4 Investigates

BBC Radio 4

94

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

95

Storytime

Storytime

96

STUDIO SHOW

SANTO STUDIO

97

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

98

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

99

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

100

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

101

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

102

Extreme

BBC

103

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

104

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

105

JOURNEY

Ryan Wolf

106

MimmPodcast | پادکست میم

مهدی عباسی

107

Ça peut vous arriver

RTL

108

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

109

Seelenfänger

Bayerischer Rundfunk

110

Curse of: America's Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

111

Adopt Perspective Adoption Podcast

Dr Jo-Ann Sparrow for Jigsaw Queensland

112

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

113

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

Byte & Pieces

114

人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材

厭世姬＆邊角料

115

That's What People Do

That's What People Do

116

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

117

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

118

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

119

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Original

120

Aussie Afterlife

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

121

R.M.Williams OUTBACK

R.M.Williams Publishing

122

FBI Files

The FBI Files

123

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

124

Signals to Danger

Daniel Fox

125

Cosmic Peach

Julia Hamilton

126

The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

127

Postcards from Port Kembla

Jennifer Macey

128

香港電台：中華五千年

RTHK.HK

129

The Gas Man

Tortoise Media

130

老高和小茉最新更新

老高与小茉高速更新

131

The Unconventional Soldier

theunconventionalsoldier

132

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

133

Chameleon: The Michigan Plot

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

134

The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome

Brazen

135

Más Allá del Rosa

Jessica Fernández

136

The Shrink Next Door

Audible Original | Bloomberg

137

Radio National Presents

ABC Australia

138

Take Me To Your Leader!

ABC Australia

139

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

140

The Trap

Victorian Women's Trust

141

Coining It

Global

142

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

143

Inspectre Paranormal

Tom Barrow

144

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

145

The Consciousness Cassettes (The Telepathy Tapes Season 2)

TTT Media

146

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147

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

148

The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic

Tortoise Media

149

The Crimes of Margo Freshwater

Sony Music Entertainment

150

Escafandro

Rádio Escafandro

151

The Speaker

KQED

152

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

153

Terrifying True Stories

Terrifying True Stories

154

Regional Birth Stories.

Doula Lou

155

Diggin’ Oak Island

Dave McBride

156

SuperHuman

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

157

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

158

No One Is Coming

Ten Cats Media

159

Into The Dirt

Tortoise Media

160

バービーとおしんり研究所

TBS RADIO

161

Podme Dokumentär

Podme

162

Incredible Lives With Cainey

Michael Cain

163

Welcome to Paradise

CBC

164

Air Crash Chronicles

Air Crash Chronicles

165

SR PAY (True Crime Documentaries)

SR PAY

166

Australian VBAC Stories

Australian VBAC Stories

167

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

168

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王悠悠18号

169

Trapped in Treatment

iHeartPodcasts and Warner Bros

170

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

171

Here We Are, The Living

Quiet Night

172

The Last Soviet

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

173

Chameleon: Gallery of Lies

Sony Podcasts

174

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175

Pig Iron

Tortoise Media

176

Kod: Katastrof

Podplay

177

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

178

The Good Listener Podcast

John Hadden

179

The District

Stuff Audio

180

Diary of A Ghost Hunter |WTAF Paranormal Files

Anne and Renata | Frightfully Good Productions

181

The Good Trouble Show | Unidentified Flying Objects & UFO Disclosure

Matt Ford | UFO & UAP Investigative Journalist

182

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

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

183

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

184

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

185

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

186

Room with a View: The Story of Victoria's MSIR

Yarra Drug and Health Forum

187

Salt of the Earth

Grigg Media

188

Elon's Spies

Tortoise Media

189

Let Us In!

ABC Australia

190

Sabotage

Good Luck Media

191

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

192

奇了怪了 | 真·奇幻访谈

哈喽怪谈

193

The Greatest Stories Never Told

Craig Clemens, Roger Love

194

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth

Nadia Levett

195

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

196

TalkingPFAS

Kayleen Bell

197

The Pornhub Empire

CBC

198

Heaven's Helpline

NZ Herald

199

Call Bethel

The Telegraph

200

Curious Tourism: Responsible Travel Podcast

Voyascape Media

201

The Zandland Show

Zandland

202

Breech Birth Podcast

Sasha Hopkins

203

Talk Tracks (The Telepathy Tapes Interview Series)

TTT Media

204

The Cryptid Podcast

The Cryptid Podcast - Daniel "Dano" Hamilton

205

UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT

Preston Dennett

206

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

207

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

208

Collapse: Disaster in Surfside

Treefort Media & Miami Herald

209

UFO - Extraterrestrial Reality

James Quirk

210

Čestmír Strakatý

Čestmír Strakatý

211

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

212

给女孩的商业第一课

闪光少女斯斯

213

Mallen Baker: Faultlines

Mallen Baker

214

Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing

Julie Bindel

215

Hooked on Freddie

Audible Original

216

Revisiting The Gay Life

David Boyer

217

MeddlCast

Rainero Winklero

218

Subtitle

Quiet Juice

219

Divergent Files

Divergent Files

220

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

221

Moon

Moon

222

History of the Hungarians

Ferenc Hüvös

223

Ramble with Joe McGucken

RTÉ

224

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

225

The 9.11 Pentagon Podcast Project

Jermaine Williams, Imani Scott

226

Magtfuld

RADIO IIII

227

Input

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)

228

Unquiet Realities

Winchester

229

Podcast X

Eduardo Oliveira

230

一橋大学は出たけれど

一橋大学は出たけれど

231

Causality

The Engineered Network

232

On podcast پادکست آن

mersen

233

تاریخ موسیقی دستگاهی ایران از زبان لطفی

shahrouz kabiri

234

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

235

Into the Mix

Ben & Jerry's and ABF Creative

236

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

237

Reasons We Serve: Police Careers & Officer Experience

Reasons We Serve

238

Another Bloody Podcast

Podshape

239

La société de minuit

Tatiana Benhamou

240

Old Money Dynasties

OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT

241

Profile

BBC Radio 4

242

Heroes Behind Headlines

Heroes Behind Headlines

243

Van Dis Ongefilterd

Atlas Contact / Adriaan van Dis

244

My Brother David

iHeartPodcasts

245

Exploring Clean Energy

Andy Marsland

246

The Relocated South African | Emigration stories

Jan Hugo - Emigration stories expert

247

Here We Are, The Living

Quiet Night

248

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

Alongside Radio

249

Archives

Neoxi

250

Paranoid American

Thomas Gorence

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