Top Podcasts in New Zealand

The latest Apple Podcasts All Podcasts chart for New Zealand, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked September 13, 2026.

1

The Rest Is History

Goalhanger

2

Unravel

ABC Australia

3

Casefile True Crime

Casefile Presents

4

ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley

ZM Podcast Network

5

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

DOAC

6

The Poisoned Wife

The Australian

7

Between Two Beers Podcast

Steven Holloway & Seamus Marten

8

The Daily

The New York Times

9

Global News Podcast

BBC World Service

10

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

11

No Such Thing As A Fish

No Such Thing As A Fish

12

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

13

Bear Hunt

Goalhanger

14

RedHanded

RedHanded

15

The Rest Is Politics: US

Goalhanger

16

The Dom Harvey Podcast

Dom Harvey

17

The Rest Is Classified

Goalhanger

18

The Mel Robbins Podcast

Mel Robbins

19

The Detail

RNZ

20

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

21

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

BBC Sounds

22

Empire: World History

Goalhanger

23

Shameless

Shameless Media

24

Sunday Morning

RNZ

25

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

26

The Hauraki Big Show

Radio Hauraki

27

Intrigue

BBC Radio 4

28

You're Dead to Me

BBC Radio 4

29

Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4

30

DELVE

newsroom.co.nz

31

Hamish & Andy

LiSTNR

32

Your Own Backyard

Chris Lambert

33

The Ancients

History Hit

34

Short History Of...

NOISER

35

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

36

At Large with Toby Manhire

The Spinoff

37

Good Hang with Amy Poehler

The Ringer

38

The Ezra Klein Show

New York Times Opinion

39

Crimes NZ

RNZ

40

Mamamia Out Loud

Mamamia Podcasts

41

Desert Island Discs

BBC Radio 4

42

Dan Snow's History Hit

History Hit

43

GUILT

Brevity Studios

44

British Scandal

Audible

45

Conversations

ABC Australia

46

The Book Club

Goalhanger

47

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Pushkin Industries

48

ill-advised by Bill Nighy

EYEPOD Studios

49

20/20

ABC News

50

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

51

48 Hours

CBS News

52

Huberman Lab

Scicomm Media

53

The Mike Hosking Breakfast

Newstalk ZB

54

Witness: Perfect Alibi

news.com.au

55

Pod Save America

Pod Save America

56

DSPN -RUGBY

rova | DSPN

57

Love Trapped

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

58

Cross Party Lines

Cross Party Lines

59

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

All-In Podcast, LLC

60

Crime Junkie

Audiochuck

61

The Piketon Massacre

iHeartPodcasts

62

Mediawatch

RNZ

63

The Rest Is Entertainment

Goalhanger

64

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger

65

Daze of Our Lives

The Hits

66

ZOE Science & Nutrition

ZOE

67

Today in Focus

The Guardian

68

The Veil

Brevity Studios

69

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

70

The Property Academy Podcast

Opes Partners

71

Let Her Finish

rova | Brodie Kane Media

72

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

73

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

74

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

75

This American Life

This American Life

76

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Plosive

77

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Perfect Strangers

78

Not For Radio

rova | Jay & Dunc

79

TRIGGERnometry

TRIGGERnometry

80

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

81

SmartLess

Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett

82

The Agenda

The Alternative Commentary Collective

83

Economist Podcasts

The Economist

84

The Hauraki Breakfast Podcast

Radio Hauraki

85

True Crime Conversations

Mamamia Podcasts

86

In Our Time

BBC Radio 4

87

99% Invisible

Roman Mars

88

MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories

Ballen Studios

89

The Romesh Ranganathan Show

Ranga Bee & Platform Media

90

Bear Brook

NHPR

91

Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids | Realm

92

The News Agents

Global

93

Life Uncut

LiSTNR

94

Making Cents

Frances Cook

95

Q+A with Jack Tame

Q+A with Jack Tame

96

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

NOISER

97

The Rest Is Science

Goalhanger

98

My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

99

Saturday Morning

RNZ

100

The Curve

The Curve Platform

101

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

102

What Happened to the McStays?

ABC News

103

Betrayal Weekly

iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts

104

The Louis Theroux Podcast

Spotify Studios

105

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Comedy Central

106

Keep The Change

nextAdvisory

107

The High Performance Podcast

High Performance

108

The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?

Sony Music Entertainment

109

RNZ News

RNZ

110

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast, Joanna Coles

111

Ukraine: The Latest

The Telegraph

112

P1 with Matt and Tommy

Stak

113

Not Just the Tudors

History Hit

114

Dateline NBC

NBC News

115

The Tim Dillon Show

The Tim Dillon Show

116

World War II with Tom Hanks

The HISTORY Channel | Back Pocket Studios | Audacy

117

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

Goalhanger

118

Boring History for Sleep

Velvet

119

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee: GP & Author

120

Gone Medieval

History Hit

121

All In Her Head

RNZ

122

The Front Page

NZ Herald

123

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

History Hit

124

Behind the Bastards

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

125

Hard Fork

The New York Times

126

Newscast

BBC News

127

How We Got Here with Chris Kohler

Kohler Media

128

Nothing much happens: bedtime stories to help you sleep

Wellness Loud

129

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

130

Real Dictators

NOISER

131

Nine To Noon

RNZ

132

A Moment In Crime

NZ Herald

133

Toni and Ryan

Toni Lodge and Ryan Jon

134

Newshour

BBC World Service

135

If You're Listening

ABC Australia

136

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

137

Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

138

HistoryExtra podcast

Immediate

139

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

140

Americast

BBC News

141

Pivot

New York Magazine

142

Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe

Keep It Light Media / Spotify Studios

143

A Bit of Optimism

Simon Sinek

144

Gone By Lunchtime

The Spinoff

145

Football Weekly

The Guardian

146

The Case Of

ABC Australia

147

Triple M Rocks Footy NRL

Triple M

148

TED Talks Daily

TED

149

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

150

Smosh Reads Reddit Stories

Smosh

151

Unleashed

Mamamia Podcasts

152

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

153

Still Counting

Crooked Media

154

F1: Chequered Flag

BBC Radio 5 Live

155

Up and Vanished

Tenderfoot TV

156

Kiwi Yarns

rova | Brodie Kane Media

157

Off Air with Jane & Fi

The Times

158

The Binge Cases: What She Buried

Sony Music Entertainment

159

The Leighton Smith Podcast

Newstalk ZB

160

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

161

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

162

Snapped: Women Who Murder

Oxygen

163

Jane Austen Stories

NOISER

164

I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin

News.com.au

165

Raw Politics

newsroom.co.nz

166

The Edge Breakfast

rova | The Edge

167

Fin vs History

Fin Taylor & Horatio Gould

168

What I survived

Jack Laurence

169

What It Was Like

Superreal

170

Inside Trump's Head

The Daily Beast, Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles

171

The disappearance of Katie Walker

AIIMS Creator Hub

172

Politics NZ

RNZ

173

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

174

The Archers

BBC Radio 4

175

Crime Next Door

BBC Sounds

176

Cheques and Balances

Cheques and Balances

177

Prof G Markets

Vox Media Podcast Network

178

No Filter

Mamamia Podcasts

179

Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Newstalk ZB

180

Iran: The Latest

The Telegraph

181

Revisionist History: The Staten Island Problem

Pushkin Industries

182

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

183

Planet Money

NPR

184

The Spy Who

Audible

185

Begin Again with Davina McCall

Begin Again

186

Australian True Crime

Bravecasting

187

Battleground

Goalhanger

188

Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers

Justin Wolfers

189

THE MORNING SHIFT

THE PEOPLES MEDIA CO.

190

The Tucker Carlson Show

Tucker Carlson Network

191

Learning Easy English

BBC

192

Sherlock & Co.

Goalhanger

193

The Happy Saver Podcast - Personal Finance in New Zealand

Ruth - Personal Finance Blogger

194

Daze of Our Lives

The Hits

195

American Scandal

Audible

196

Morning Report

RNZ

197

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

198

Science Weekly

The Guardian

199

What Did You Do Yesterday? with Max Rushden & David O'Doherty

Keep It Light Media

200

To Live and Die in LA

Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

201

The Shawn Ryan Show

Shawn Ryan

202

Taskmaster The Podcast

Avalon

203

Elis James and John Robins

Significant Productions

204

Search Engine

PJ Vogt

205

The Teacher's Pet

The Australian

206

The Tennis Podcast

The Tennis Podcast

207

Dwarkesh Podcast

Dwarkesh Patel

208

Burden of Guilt

iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts

209

Against The Odds

Audible

210

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

211

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

212

The Imperfects

Hugh van Cuylenburg, Ryan Shelton & Josh van Cuylenburg

213

Sick to Death

The Australian

214

Wolf & Owl with Romesh Ranganathan and Tom Davis

Ranga Bee & Platform Media

215

More or Less

BBC Radio 4

216

The Global Story

BBC World Service

217

My Therapist Ghosted Me

Global

218

The Rest Is Football

Goalhanger

219

Sleepy History

Slumber Studios

220

Business Wars

Audible

221

Crime at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

222

We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson

WNTT

223

Koala Moon: Kids Bedtime Stories & Sleep Stories for Kids Podcast

Kids Bedtime Stories by Koala Moon | Starglow Media

224

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

225

How Good's Dairy

Red Nine Studios

226

The Oprah Podcast

Harpo

227

Two Hot Takes

Morgan Absher

228

The Surgeon Of St Helena

Always True Crime

229

The Story

The Times

230

100 Years of ZB

Newstalk ZB

231

The Bulwark Daily

The Bulwark

232

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day and Sony Music Entertainment

233

Stories of Art

HENI Talks

234

Swindled

Swindled

235

The Truth About Natalie

Audiochuck

236

The Flood

The Australian

237

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

238

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

239

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

240

6 Minute English

BBC Radio

241

Public Interest

Public Interest

242

All In The Mind

ABC Australia

243

Wow in the World

Tinkercast

244

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

245

No One Saw It Coming

ABC Australia

246

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon and Michelle Kaplan

247

The Blindboy Podcast

Blindboyboatclub

248

Kenty - Paul Kent NRL Podcast

FanaticsTV

249

My Dad Wrote A Porno

My Dad Wrote A Porno

250

Afternoons

RNZ

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