Top Documentary Podcasts in United Kingdom

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for United Kingdom, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked October 29, 2026.

1

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

2

SAS: The Shadow War

The Independent / Aurra Studios

3

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

4

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

BBC Sounds

5

METRO with Sarah Koenig

Serial Productions & The New York Times

6

Otherworld

Otherworld

7

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

8

The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?

Sony Music Entertainment

9

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

10

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

11

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

12

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

13

Inspectre Paranormal

Tom Barrow

14

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

15

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

16

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

17

This Is Actually Happening

Audible Original

18

Inheritance

BBC World Service

19

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

20

What It Was Like

Superreal

21

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

22

World of Secrets

BBC

23

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

24

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

25

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

26

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

27

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

28

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

29

Falling Tree

Falling Tree

30

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

31

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

32

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

33

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

34

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

35

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

36

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

37

Sold a Story

APM Reports

38

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

39

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

40

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

41

PSNI Beyond the Badge

Police Service of Northern Ireland

42

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

43

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

44

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

45

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

46

File on 4 Investigates

BBC Radio 4

47

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

48

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

49

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

50

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

51

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

52

Noble

Audiochuck

53

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

54

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

55

OnlyFantasy

Audible Original

56

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

57

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

58

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

59

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

60

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

61

On Hold

Storied

62

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

63

Still Life

Naomi Bloomstein and Chloe Turpin

64

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

65

The Guild of Ghostly Grounds

The Guild of Ghostly Grounds

66

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

67

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

68

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

69

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

70

Σκληρές αλήθειες

LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ

71

The Flood

The Australian

72

Paper Trail

ProPublica

73

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

74

Signals to Danger

Daniel Fox

75

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

76

The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

77

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

78

Pig Iron

Tortoise Media

79

No One Is Coming

Ten Cats Media

80

Pipeline

Daily Mail

81

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

82

What's Missing

Casefile Presents

83

Profile

BBC Radio 4

84

The Land in Between

Global Reporting Centre

85

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

86

TheBlueTickShow

THE BLUETICK SHOW

87

The Consciousness Cassettes (The Telepathy Tapes Season 2)

TTT Media

88

MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler

MAD THAT

89

What I survived

Jack Laurence

90

Strange Stories UK

DBC

91

The Commune

Stuff Audio

92

Into The Dirt

Tortoise Media

93

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

94

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

95

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

96

Embedded

NPR

97

Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed

Lynn Studio

98

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

99

Под куполом

Ivan Makridin

100

Homefront : Civilians in Modern Conflict

Giuliano Stochino Weiss, Luke Irving

101

Pariah

Tortoise Media

102

Question Everything

iHeartPodcasts

103

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

Secrets & Spies

104

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

105

WIDE SPIRIT, le podcast qui vous donne la parole sur vos expériences inexpliquées

Emmanuelle Chaumont Rey

106

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

107

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

108

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera Network

109

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

110

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

111

The Unconventional Soldier

theunconventionalsoldier

112

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

113

The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

TTT Media

114

Child

BBC Radio 4

115

How I Survived

That's Life!

116

JULIE IN GENDERLAND

Julie Bindel

117

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

118

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

119

Different with Nicky Campbell

BBC Radio 5 Live

120

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

121

Call Sign Condor: Latino Soldiers Fighting in Ukraine

DW, LA Times Studios, Futuro Studios

122

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

123

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

124

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

Byte & Pieces

125

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

126

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

127

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

128

Beyond The Veil Podcast

Beyond The Veil Podcast

129

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

130

Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott

Zara McDermott

131

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

132

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

133

Podme Dokumentär

Podme

134

Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine

Dr. Ed Hasan

135

The Brohio Podcast

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

136

Short Cuts

BBC Radio 4

137

Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial

BBC Sounds

138

Legacy: Sports Stories

Stak

139

The Gas Man

Tortoise Media

140

The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic

Tortoise Media

141

Χρονοκάψουλα

SoundSphereMedia

142

Coining It

Global

143

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

Tortoise Media

144

Tech Bro Topia

Deutschlandfunk

145

Beyond Haunted UK | Paranormal, History & the Unexplained

Beyond Haunted UK

146

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

147

Patient 11

Sky News

148

A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast

Chris Atkins

149

Ramble with Joe McGucken

RTÉ

150

Wilder Podcast

Grange Project

151

History's Great Mysteries

Nick

152

Ça peut vous arriver

RTL

153

The Reveal podcast

the reveal podcast

154

Lignes de crêtes

Making Waves

155

OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

156

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

157

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

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

158

Paranormal Portal UK

Den and Luke | Paranormal Portal UK

159

Adventures in Nutopia

David Bramwell

160

Threshold

Auricle Productions

161

GYS: Bellas Mysterie

DR

162

Welcome to Paradise

CBC

163

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

164

Hateland

ARD

165

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

166

The All or Nothing Podcast with Billy Moore

Billy Moore

167

The Good Listener Podcast

John Hadden

168

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

169

Call Bethel

The Telegraph

170

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

171

Chameleon: Gallery of Lies

Sony Podcasts

172

SuperHuman

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

173

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

174

Outpost Podcasts

Outpost Studios

175

Seriously...

BBC Radio 4

176

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

177

Left for Dead

Forbidden Knowledge Network

178

WIDE SPIRIT, le podcast qui vous donne la parole sur vos expériences inexpliquées

Emmanuelle Chaumont Rey

179

Geography Matters

Chris Hamnett

180

Ce qui se dit la nuit

Julie Vigneron

181

Czarnobyl. Prawdziwa historia

Polskie Radio S.A.

182

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

183

بودكاست مع الصاهود

الإذاعة والتلفاز

184

THE WAR WITHIN: THE ROBERT BALES STORY

iHeartPodcasts

185

Act Two With Samantha Armytage

Samantha Armytage

186

Niche to Meet You

Leslie Eiler Thompson

187

Cults and Secret Societies

Forbidden Knowledge Network

188

Looking Up Sheffield

Loz Harvey

189

Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

Danny Brown

190

OMBRE ITALIANE

Angelo Soro

191

The Activity Continues

Collected Sounds Media

192

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

193

Doing Justice

CAFE

194

Standing Up For Surrogacy: A SurrogacyUK Podcast

SurrogacyUK

195

UOL Prime com José Roberto de Toledo

UOL

196

4se Material

Leaders in Sport, SportTechie & Sports Business Journal

197

Collapse

Stuff Audio

198

Systemic

Colorado Public Radio

199

Вопрос Времени

libo/libo

200

Making Sheffield

The Sheffield Star

201

Pivot Points

Oshan Jarow

202

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203

The Invisible Woman

Just Gold Digital Agency

204

Indonesia In-depth

In-depth Creative

205

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

206

7 metrów pod ziemią

Rafał Gębura

207

Fatal Fantasy

Sony Music Entertainment

208

Mallen Baker: Faultlines

Mallen Baker

209

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

210

The Squarepeg Podcast

Amy Richards

211

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

212

Escafandro

Rádio Escafandro

213

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

214

Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

215

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

216

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

217

The Long Time Academy

Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios

218

Comfort Sounds

Comfort Sounds

219

Elon's Spies

Tortoise Media

220

Making Tracks Railway Podcast

Alasdair Stewart

221

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Original

222

Foster Care Uncovered

Sarah Anderson & Louise Allen

223

The Speaker

KQED

224

The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories

Becky

225

Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters

226

The IMO Podcast - open and honest conversations with care leavers

IMO - In My Opinion

227

A Whole Other Country

Marfa Public Radio

228

Une lettre d'Amérique

RTL

229

English Journeys Podcast

Martin Ellis

230

The Wild Dispatch

Robin Warman

231

The Other Latif

WNYC Studios

232

The Red Treehouse: Scary Stories to Keep You Up at Night

Will Soto

233

De Ware Jacob

Dagblad van het Noorden

234

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The Broken Truth | History Podcast

Garrett Greene

237

Em Terra de Ninguém

National Geographic Portugal | Gonçalo Câmara

238

Punk Stories: UK

Alison Bancroft

239

Pills and Power

Pills and Power

240

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

Yarra Drug and Health Forum

241

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242

Sunrise Outlawed: Stories from Russia

Gregory and Dina

243

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244

Radionameh | رادیو نامه

Rozhin Meydani

245

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

IRONCLAD

246

The Cryptid Podcast

The Cryptid Podcast - Daniel "Dano" Hamilton

247

Made in China

BBC Sounds

248

Air Crash Chronicles

Air Crash Chronicles

249

More Muslim

More Muslim

250

I Talk To Ghosts

Jennifer Page

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