Top Documentary Podcasts in United Kingdom

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

1

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

2

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

3

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

4

Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

5

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

6

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

7

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

8

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

9

Otherworld

Otherworld

10

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

11

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

12

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

13

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

BBC Sounds

14

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

15

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

16

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

17

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

18

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

19

Focus: Adults in the Room

KUOW News and Information

20

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

21

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

22

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

23

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

24

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

25

The Flood

The Australian

26

World of Secrets

BBC

27

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

28

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

29

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

30

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

31

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

32

OnlyFantasy

Audible

33

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

34

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

35

Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott

Zara McDermott

36

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

37

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

38

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

39

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

40

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

41

What It Was Like

Superreal

42

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

43

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

44

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

45

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

46

The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic

Tortoise Media

47

File on 4 Investigates

BBC Radio 4

48

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

49

Into The Dirt

Tortoise Media

50

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

51

Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast

Clem Dallaway

52

The Commune

Stuff Audio

53

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

54

Pig Iron

Tortoise Media

55

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

56

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

57

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

58

On Hold

Storied

59

The Land in Between

Global Reporting Centre

60

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

61

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

62

Noble

Audiochuck

63

Paper Trail

ProPublica

64

SuperHuman

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

65

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

66

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

Secrets & Spies

67

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

68

Bailey Sarian

Bailey Sarian

69

TheBlueTickShow

THE BLUETICK SHOW

70

The Missing Sister

iHeartPodcasts

71

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

72

Sold a Story

APM Reports

73

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

Tortoise Media

74

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

75

Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial

BBC Sounds

76

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

77

The Unconventional Soldier

theunconventionalsoldier

78

Profile

BBC Radio 4

79

Made in China

BBC Sounds

80

What I survived

Jack Laurence

81

The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

82

Elon's Spies

Tortoise Media

83

Inside the Reading Gap

Thinking Reading

84

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

85

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

86

A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast

Chris Atkins

87

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

88

MAD THAT w/ Harry Robinson & Carl Reigler

MAD THAT

89

Pariah

Tortoise Media

90

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

Byte & Pieces

91

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

92

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

93

A Vida Dupla do Espião Traidor

Observador

94

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

95

Czarnobyl. Prawdziwa historia

Polskie Radio S.A.

96

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

97

Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

98

Question Everything

Brian Reed

99

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

100

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

101

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

102

The Squarepeg Podcast

Amy Richards

103

Inheritance: Samsung

BBC World Service

104

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

105

The Gas Man

Tortoise Media

106

Signals to Danger

Daniel Fox

107

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

108

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

109

Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord

iHeartPodcasts

110

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

111

How I Survived

That's Life!

112

Signal Hill

Signal Hill

113

Paranormal Portal UK

Den and Luke | Paranormal Portal UK

114

Power Plays

Human Rights Foundation

115

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

116

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

117

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

118

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

119

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

120

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

121

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

Will Soto

122

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

123

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

124

Strange Stories UK

DBC

125

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

126

Coffeehouse Crime

Coffeehouse Crime

127

Hateland

ARD

128

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

129

Criminal Justice Matters

The Criminal Bar Association

130

Left To Their Own Devices

Toronto Star

131

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

132

Inspectre Paranormal

Tom Barrow

133

Σκληρές αλήθειες

LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ

134

The Cows Are Mad

BBC Radio 4

135

The Good Listener Podcast

John Hadden

136

Geography Matters

Chris Hamnett

137

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

138

A Grande Provocadora

Observador

139

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

140

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

141

JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia

Isabelle Farrugia

142

Kate and Kathleen - A podcast about humans and horses

Kathleen Beckham and KATE SANDEL

143

Beneath the City is Soil

Robyn Moffat

144

The Other Latif

WNYC Studios

145

Short Cuts

BBC Radio 4

146

Child

BBC Radio 4

147

The Rewriting Humanity

Jim Walsh

148

À Brûler Sans Ouvrir

Nouvelles Écoutes

149

The Brothers Ortiz

Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts

150

Childless not by Choice

Civilla M. Morgan

151

Outpost Podcasts

Outpost Studios

152

Personally: Discount Dave (and the Fix)

CBC

153

Storie per Dormire Bene

Storie per Dormire bene

154

Las Raras

Las Raras

155

Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país

Podium Podcast

156

Odd Hour: Mysteries, Weird Stories, and the Little Known

Isaiah Dillon

157

Dalai Lama - Audio Biography

Inception Point AI

158

Subtitle

Quiet Juice

159

Geisterjäger

Verena Fiebiger, Jasmin Körber und Klaus Uhrig

160

The Awakening

Kemet king913

161

Scared With Jess

Jess

162

The Consciousness Cassettes

Ky Dickens

163

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

164

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

165

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

166

人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材

厭世姬＆邊角料

167

Great Disasters

Kari Fay

168

Embedded

NPR

169

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

170

The Trap

Victorian Women's Trust

171

Gateway: Cocaine, Murder, & Dirty Money in Europe

Brazen

172

Beyond Haunted UK | Paranormal, History & the Unexplained

Beyond Haunted UK

173

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

174

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

IRONCLAD

175

Pipeline

Daily Mail

176

Atonement: The John Paulk Story

iHeartPodcasts

177

Heweliusz. Prawdziwa historia

Polskie Radio S.A.

178

The Long Time Academy

Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios

179

The IMO Podcast - open and honest conversations with care leavers

IMO - In My Opinion

180

The Cost of Happiness: Tony Hsieh

Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci

181

THE WAR WITHIN: THE ROBERT BALES STORY

iHeartPodcasts

182

JULIE IN GENDERLAND

Julie Bindel

183

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

184

Seelenfänger

Bayerischer Rundfunk

185

Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing

Julie Bindel

186

Seriously...

BBC Radio 4

187

Investigation Chancla

Mama Chancla

188

Days Like These

ABC Australia

189

Creepy Shit

Creepy Shit

190

Did I Wake You? Stories from 3AM

Darren Vickers

191

Who Robs A Banksy?

Podimo & Message Heard

192

The Scottish paranormal podcast’s Podcast

Chris SPP

193

The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories

Becky

194

The Fault Line: Dying for a Fight

Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment

195

Griftonomics

Griftonomics

196

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

Amanda Mednansky and Lindsey Charlick

197

Crímenes Ibéricos

Abbcast

198

Adventures in Nutopia

David Bramwell

199

The Obit Project

Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

200

Getting Emotional

Bex Lindsay

201

Odessa

The New York Times

202

THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA

Fabio Fabiano

203

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

204

Sky Signal

Jason Abadi

205

The Superhero Complex

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

206

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

207

True Crime Uncut - Vodcast

The Uncut Network

208

Der Koch von Gaza

DIE ZEIT

209

Blethered

Sean McDonald

210

Invisible Handcuffs: Unchaining Economics

Katy Shields

211

Say what again Billy?

William DeToma (Billy)

212

Storyhole: Loads of Gay Stories

Matt Bello

213

The business of being a postgrad

Durham University Business School

214

Neymar (UOL Prime)

UOL

215

On Assignment

Reuters

216

The Wobbly Road

Tatum Swithenbank

217

Mothers of Invention

Doc Society

218

Field Work

Field Work

219

Stevie Wonder - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

220

Pass It On: funny, fascinating and useful retro household tips from the 1950s

DC Thomson

221

P3 Dokumentar

NRK

222

De Erfenis

AudioCollectief SCHIK

223

The Brohio Podcast

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

224

Call Bethel

The Telegraph

225

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

226

NUEVA DIMENSIÓN

Juan Gómez - Nueva Dimensión

227

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

228

The Lodge

RNZ

229

Coining It

Global

230

7 metrów pod ziemią

Rafał Gębura

231

Stories with Matt Cullen

Matt Cullen

232

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Originals

233

What's Missing

Casefile Presents

234

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

235

Ça peut vous arriver

RTL

236

The Crimes of Margo Freshwater

Sony Music Entertainment

237

Admissible: Shreds of Evidence

VPM & Story Mechanics

238

Χρονοκάψουλα

SoundSphereMedia

239

Making Tracks Railway Podcast

Alasdair Stewart

240

REICH – Das Geschäft mit dem Zweifel

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

241

Wild Crimes

ARD

242

Mystical Times Blog Podcast

Michele Eve

243

Danni Irreversibili - Il Caso Michael Jackson

Vois con Roberta Lippi e Lorenzo Brillo

244

Beyond The Veil Podcast

Beyond The Veil Podcast

245

Threshold

Auricle Productions

246

PRIDE AND PREDATOR

Julie Bindel

247

Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

Danny Brown

248

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera Network

249

Equipo de investigación

Onda Cero Podcast

250

Tango Juliet Foxtrot - the police podcast

Iain Donnelly

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