Top Documentary Podcasts in Australia

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for Australia, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 23, 2026.

1

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

BBC Sounds

2

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

3

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

4

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

5

What I survived

Jack Laurence

6

Careless | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

7

World of Secrets

BBC

8

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

9

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

10

What It Was Like

Superreal

11

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

12

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

13

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

14

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

15

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

16

Otherworld

Otherworld

17

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

18

The Flood

The Australian

19

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

20

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

21

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

22

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

23

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

24

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

25

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

26

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

27

Embedded

NPR

28

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

29

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

30

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

31

OnlyFantasy

Audible

32

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

33

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

34

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

35

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

36

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

37

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

38

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

39

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

40

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

41

How I Survived

That's Life!

42

Sold a Story

APM Reports

43

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

44

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

45

The Commune

Stuff Audio

46

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

47

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

48

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

49

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

50

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

51

Incredible Lives With Cainey

Michael Cain

52

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

53

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

54

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

55

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

56

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

57

Paper Trail

ProPublica

58

Telephone Stories

Ninth Planet Audio

59

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

60

The Brohio Podcast

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

61

Noble

Audiochuck

62

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

63

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

64

Days Like These

ABC Australia

65

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

66

给女孩的商业第一课

闪光少女斯斯

67

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

68

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

69

Question Everything

Brian Reed

70

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

71

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

72

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

73

File on 4 Investigates

BBC Radio 4

74

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

75

What's Missing

Casefile Presents

76

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

77

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

78

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

79

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

80

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

81

The Trap

Victorian Women's Trust

82

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

83

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

84

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera Network

85

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

86

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

87

I Was Actually There

ABC Australia

88

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

89

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

90

Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial

BBC Sounds

91

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

92

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

Secrets & Spies

93

Into The Dirt

Tortoise Media

94

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

95

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

Byte & Pieces

96

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

97

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

IRONCLAD

98

The Lodge

RNZ

99

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

100

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

101

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

102

The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)

TTT Media

103

Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"

Katy Shields

104

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

105

Extreme

BBC

106

Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast

Clem Dallaway

107

Extraordinary Stories

Mamamia Podcasts

108

Pig Iron

Tortoise Media

109

Adopt Perspective Adoption Podcast

Dr Jo-Ann Sparrow for Jigsaw Queensland

110

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

111

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

112

SCAMMERLAND

Superreal

113

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

114

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

115

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

116

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

117

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

118

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

119

La société de minuit

Tatiana Benhamou

120

肥宅老司機

老司與老機

121

Inheritance: Samsung

BBC World Service

122

The Brothers Ortiz

Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts

123

Radio National Presents

ABC Australia

124

Talk Tracks

TTT Media

125

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Originals

126

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

127

What Happens Next?

Steve Morris

128

Reflector

Longview

129

TheBlueTickShow

THE BLUETICK SHOW

130

UFO to UAP Explained

Matt Tones | UFO and UAP Research

131

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

132

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

133

The Gas Man

Tortoise Media

134

Breech Birth Podcast

Sasha Hopkins

135

人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材

厭世姬＆邊角料

136

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

137

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

138

The Corrymeela Podcast

Corrymeela

139

Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

Danny Brown

140

The People Place and Nature Podcast

PPNP Ltd

141

Nocturno

Jens Thiele

142

L'épopée des Infâmes

Maiwenn

143

The Cows Are Mad

BBC Radio 4

144

The Good Listener Podcast

John Hadden

145

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

146

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

147

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

148

On podcast پادکست آن

mersen

149

Take Me To Your Leader!

ABC Australia

150

Corinna and The King

Brazen

151

MimmPodcast | پادکست میم

مهدی عباسی

152

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

153

The Speaker

KQED

154

Welcome to Paradise

CBC

155

Coffeehouse Crime

Coffeehouse Crime

156

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

157

Lore Lodge Podcast

Lodge

158

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

159

The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

160

Building Utopia: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Rusty King

161

Falling Tree

Falling Tree

162

Threshold

Auricle Productions

163

Coining It

Global

164

Salt of the Earth

Grigg Media

165

Signals to Danger

Daniel Fox

166

The Wild Dispatch

Robin Warman

167

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

168

pepe&chema podcast

pepe&chema

169

The Obit Project

Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

170

Curse of: America’s Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

171

Abeceda strachu

Adam Miklica a Eduard Birke

172

香港電台：中華五千年

RTHK.HK

173

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

174

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

Tortoise Media

175

MeddlCast

Rainero Winklero

176

As Irmãs

Chico Felitti

177

The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior

RNZ

178

An Australian World

Professor James Curran

179

Equipo de investigación

Onda Cero Podcast

180

Savage: True Crime For Us Rejects

Rhiannon Bloxsidge

181

Common People People Project

Cooped Up Productions

182

Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país

Podium Podcast

183

Hjärta och hjärna

UR – Utbildningsradion

184

SOS Nødtelefonen

NRK

185

The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome

Brazen

186

Richie’s Roundup Podcast.

Richie Williamson MP Member for Clarence

187

Money Power Freedom

Victorian Women's Trust

188

THE RYAN FILES

With Ryan Pelton

189

Damages

Critical Frequency

190

Ramble with Joe McGucken

RTÉ

191

At a Distance

The Slowdown

192

Westsider Radio: Sustainable Cities

Westsider Radio

193

True Creeps: True Crime, Ghost Stories, Cryptids, Horrors in History & Spooky Stories

Amanda Mednansky and Lindsey Charlick

194

False Profits: Hillsong

iHeartPodcasts

195

NFSA: Who Listens to the Radio?

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

196

Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth

Nadia Levett

197

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

198

InSight Crime Podcast

InSight Crime

199

Hechos Reales

TrueStory

200

بودكاست مع الصاهود

الإذاعة والتلفاز

201

Efter drabet

Jyllands-Posten

202

The Incarceration Podcast

E.i. the King

203

How To Destroy Everything

HTDE | Daylight Media

204

DNA Clarity and Support

Brianne Kirkpatrick Williams

205

The Hypothetical Institute

The Hypothetical Institute

206

Pariah

Tortoise Media

207

Closing The Net

ACCCE

208

Empires - An Asian Business Podcast

1UpMedia

209

Stories Lost

Stories Lost

210

Dark Matters – Geheimnisse der Geheimdienste

SWR3, rbb24 Inforadio, Eva-Maria Lemke

211

Fighting Crime

Arnold Ventures

212

The Mark Schulein Passion Project

Mark Schulein

213

Mallen Baker: Faultlines

Mallen Baker

214

Made in China

BBC Sounds

215

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

216

The Crimes of Margo Freshwater

Sony Music Entertainment

217

Inspectre Paranormal

Tom Barrow

218

De Ware Jacob

Dagblad van het Noorden

219

That's What People Do

That's What People Do

220

Seriously...

BBC Radio 4

221

Ça peut vous arriver

RTL

222

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223

The Other Latif

WNYC Studios

224

The Good Trouble Show | Unidentified Flying Objects & UFO Disclosure

Matt Ford | UFO & UAP Investigative Journalist

225

Short Cuts

BBC Radio 4

226

ゆとりっ娘たちのたわごと

ゆとたわ

227

Frontlines of Journalism

BBC Radio 4

228

Money Trauma

Miho Soon

229

VOICES OF GREYSTONES

High Tide Studios

230

24/7 Self Affirmations and Meditations

HustleStudios Podcast Network

231

Pipeline

Daily Mail

232

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

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

233

1∞種可能 Hundreds of Possibilities

Mimi

234

The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door

The Ugly Truth About The Girl Next Door

235

Tilly Talks

Tilly Talks

236

Diggin' Oak Island

Dave McBride

237

The Banksy Story

BBC Radio 4

238

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

239

Cults and Secret Societies

Forbidden Knowledge Network

240

JOURNEY

Ryan Wolf

241

The Missing Sister

iHeartPodcasts

242

The Dustlight Archives

Scott Ryan

243

Das wahre Leben

SWR

244

Jay Shetty - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

245

Cosmic Peach

Julia Hamilton

246

Prenderse Fuego: Las Voces de Pedro Lemebel

Podium Podcast Chile

247

The Overturn

The Future Justice Project

248

Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing

Julie Bindel

249

In Trust

iHeartPodcasts and Bloomberg

250

Internet Anarchist

Internet Anarchist

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