Top Documentary Podcasts in United Kingdom

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

1

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

BBC Sounds

2

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

3

Careless | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

4

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

5

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

6

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

7

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

8

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

9

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

10

World of Secrets

BBC

11

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

12

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

13

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

14

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

15

Otherworld

Otherworld

16

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

17

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

18

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

19

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

20

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

21

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

22

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

23

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

24

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

25

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

26

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

27

File on 4 Investigates

BBC Radio 4

28

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

29

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

30

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

31

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

32

What It Was Like

Superreal

33

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

34

The Flood

The Australian

35

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

36

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

37

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

38

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

39

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

40

Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast

Clem Dallaway

41

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

42

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

43

OnlyFantasy

Audible

44

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

45

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

46

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

47

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

48

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

49

What I survived

Jack Laurence

50

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

51

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

52

Embedded

NPR

53

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

54

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

55

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

56

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

57

Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott

Zara McDermott

58

On Hold

Storied

59

TheBlueTickShow

THE BLUETICK SHOW

60

Paper Trail

ProPublica

61

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

Secrets & Spies

62

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

63

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

64

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

65

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

66

SuperHuman

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

67

Into The Dirt

Tortoise Media

68

The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic

Tortoise Media

69

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera Network

70

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

71

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

72

Pariah

Tortoise Media

73

Profile

BBC Radio 4

74

Noble

Audiochuck

75

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

76

Falling Tree

Falling Tree

77

The Land in Between

Global Reporting Centre

78

Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial

BBC Sounds

79

Signals to Danger

Daniel Fox

80

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

81

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

82

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

83

Seriously...

BBC Radio 4

84

Pig Iron

Tortoise Media

85

Telephone Stories

Ninth Planet Audio

86

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

87

The Commune

Stuff Audio

88

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

89

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

90

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

91

The Unconventional Soldier

theunconventionalsoldier

92

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

93

JULIE IN GENDERLAND

Julie Bindel

94

Sold a Story

APM Reports

95

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

96

The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

97

Elon's Spies

Tortoise Media

98

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

99

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

100

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

101

Child

BBC Radio 4

102

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

Byte & Pieces

103

Mind Games

Kaleidoscope

104

Mysteries and Monsters

Mysteries and Monsters

105

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

106

The Darkling Chronicles - Real life ghost stories

Becky

107

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

IRONCLAD

108

What's Missing

Casefile Presents

109

The Brohio Podcast

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

110

The Gas Man

Tortoise Media

111

Pipeline

Daily Mail

112

Σκληρές αλήθειες

LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ

113

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

114

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115

7 metrów pod ziemią

Rafał Gębura

116

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

117

Forbidden Knowledge Podcast

Forbidden Knowledge Network

118

The Other Latif

WNYC Studios

119

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

120

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

121

Legacy: Sports Stories

Stak

122

The Good Listener Podcast

John Hadden

123

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

124

Signal Hill

Signal Hill

125

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

126

The Consciousness Cassettes (Season 2 of The Telepathy Tapes)

TTT Media

127

As Irmãs

Chico Felitti

128

Conspiracy Theories Project

Forbidden Knowledge Network

129

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

130

Under The Concrete

Ibby Alcraft and Rawnak Jassm

131

Question Everything

Brian Reed

132

On Assignment

Reuters

133

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

134

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135

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

136

The Lodge

RNZ

137

British Crimes

British Crimes

138

Paranormal Portal UK

Den and Luke | Paranormal Portal UK

139

The Speaker

KQED

140

Class Divide

Class Divide

141

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

142

The Zandland Show

Zandland

143

Injustices

Louie Media

144

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

145

Más Allá del Rosa

Jessica Fernández

146

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147

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera Network

148

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

149

The Banksy Story

BBC Radio 4

150

MimmPodcast | پادکست میم

مهدی عباسی

151

Gay Girl Gone

CBC

152

The Trap

Victorian Women's Trust

153

Inspectre Paranormal

Tom Barrow

154

Ça peut vous arriver

RTL

155

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

Tortoise Media

156

The Long Time Academy

Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios

157

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

158

Short Cuts

BBC Radio 4

159

Before We Go

Podcast Nation

160

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

161

How I Survived

That's Life!

162

Phantoms & Monsters Radio

Lon Strickler

163

Devida Vénia

Leonor Caldeira e Francisco Teixeira da Mota

164

Creepy Shit

Creepy Shit

165

Geography Matters

Chris Hamnett

166

Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing

Julie Bindel

167

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

168

Strange Stories UK

DBC

169

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

170

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

171

Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media

Louie Media

172

Wilder Podcast

Grange Project

173

The InBetween Official Podcast

The_InBetween

174

Mana Kumural - Tamil Podcast

Inba personal

175

The World's Hardest Puzzle

Stak

176

The Cows Are Mad

BBC Radio 4

177

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

178

Journal of Biophilic Design

Vanessa Champion, editor, Journal of Biophilic Design

179

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

180

My Brother David

iHeartPodcasts

181

A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast

Chris Atkins

182

Stories Lost

Stories Lost

183

给女孩的商业第一课

闪光少女斯斯

184

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

185

Chris Chan: A Comprehensive History

Geno Samuel

186

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

187

Trumped

BBC Radio Scotland

188

Griftonomics

Griftonomics

189

Our Common Nature

WNYC

190

Fiction Prescriptions

WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund

191

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

192

Cults and Secret Societies

Forbidden Knowledge Network

193

Истина где-то рядом

Терменвокс х Райз’энд’Шайн

194

Canal Café Brasil

Luciano Pires & Café Brasil Editorial Ltda

195

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

196

Made in China

BBC Sounds

197

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

198

The Donor Podcast

Costard & Touchstone Productions, Inc.

199

Threshold

Auricle Productions

200

What if...? A sandbox for curious questions.

Laura Hawkins

201

Karin Walker - Family Lawyer - How to leave a Narcissist - the Practical Podcast

Karin Walker

202

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203

The Dustlight Archives

Scott Ryan

204

Canary: The Washington Post Investigates

The Washington Post

205

Inside The Polygraph with David Goldberg

David Goldberg

206

肥宅老司機

老司與老機

207

アラサー女子の人間観察

望未とひかる

208

The Obit Project

Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

209

History's Great Mysteries

Nick

210

Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país

Podium Podcast

211

The IMO Podcast - open and honest conversations with care leavers

IMO - In My Opinion

212

Say what again Billy?

William DeToma (Billy)

213

Marilyn: Behind the Icon

Gary Vitacco-Robles, Nina Boski and Randall Libero

214

Work-Shaped Life

Sheepscot Creative

215

Hope Within The Mango Trees

Future Hope

216

War.Stories from Ukraine

War.Stories from Ukraine

217

The Sober Sunrise

Scottie Owens

218

In Place of War

In Place of War

219

Coining It

Global

220

Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet

Danny Brown

221

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

222

The Vaping Fix

Audible

223

La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir

The French Whisperer

224

Chameleon: The Michigan Plot

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

225

Al Jazeera Documentary

Al Jazeera Network

226

Reflector

Longview

227

La Minute Géographie

La Minute Géographie

228

Diggin' Oak Island

Dave McBride

229

Adventures in Nutopia

David Bramwell

230

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

iHeartPodcasts

231

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

232

Salt of the Earth

Grigg Media

233

The Missing Sister

iHeartPodcasts

234

Room 5

BBC Radio 4

235

Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

236

The Relocated South African | Emigration stories

Jan Hugo - Emigration stories expert

237

THE RYAN FILES

With Ryan Pelton

238

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

239

Curse of: America’s Next Top Model

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

240

You Look Like Me

Louise McLoughlin

241

The Good Trouble Show | Unidentified Flying Objects & UFO Disclosure

Matt Ford | UFO & UAP Investigative Journalist

242

The Trapped

ITV News

243

The Haunted Objects Podcast

SpectreVision Radio

244

Weird History

Forbidden Knowledge Network

245

Χρονοκάψουλα

SoundSphereMedia

246

Jamrozek wrażliwie. Sekty

Polskie Radio S.A.

247

Bishop's Stortford Community Podcast

James O'Donnell

248

Right Where You Are Sitting Now

Ken Eakins

249

Delirios Crónicos

Ibero 90.9

250

Frontlines of Journalism

BBC Radio 4

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