Top Documentary Podcasts in South Africa

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

1

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

2

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

3

Lucky Boy | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

4

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

5

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

6

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

7

Otherworld

Otherworld

8

What It Was Like

Superreal

9

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

10

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

11

OnlyFantasy

Audible

12

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

13

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

14

World of Secrets

BBC

15

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

16

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

17

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

18

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

19

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

20

The Commune

Stuff Audio

21

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

22

All I Can Be

The Smith Family

23

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

24

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

25

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

26

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Originals

27

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

28

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

29

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

30

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

31

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

BBC Sounds

32

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

33

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

34

Focus: Adults in the Room

KUOW News and Information

35

The Squarepeg Podcast

Amy Richards

36

What I survived

Jack Laurence

37

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

38

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

39

La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir

The French Whisperer

40

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

41

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

42

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

43

CentTwinz - I've Been Through The Most Podcast

Centtwinz Podcast

44

Springerstiefel – Alpha oder Opfer?

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

45

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

Tortoise Media

46

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

47

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

48

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

49

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

50

Noble

Audiochuck

51

Where the River Took Us

Texas Monthly

52

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

53

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

54

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

55

I Lived Through This

Killer Audio Creations

56

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

57

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

58

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

59

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

60

Bailey Sarian

Bailey Sarian

61

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

62

The Brohio Podcast

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

63

History of the Hungarians

Ferenc Hüvös

64

Left To Their Own Devices

Toronto Star

65

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

66

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

67

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

68

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

69

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

70

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

71

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

Byte & Pieces

72

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

73

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

74

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

75

The Flood

The Australian

76

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

77

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

78

How I Survived

That's Life!

79

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

80

Pariah

Tortoise Media

81

Hateland

ARD

82

Fatal Fantasy

Sony Music Entertainment

83

Taylor McMahon

@tayjmcm

84

Embedded

NPR

85

Storytime

Storytime

86

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

87

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

Secrets & Spies

88

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

89

Spy Valley: An Engineer's Nuclear Betrayal

Brazen

90

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

91

Question Everything

Brian Reed

92

The Relocated South African | Emigration stories

Jan Hugo - Emigration stories expert

93

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

94

Cameras Off / Outdoors

Host: Jamie Howard / HowardFilms

95

24/7 Self Affirmations and Meditations

HustleStudios Podcast Network

96

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

97

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

98

Everyday Abundance: The hidden stories behind everyday technologies

Virginia Postrel and Charles C. Mann

99

The Missing Sister

iHeartPodcasts

100

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

101

Fascinating People Fascinating Places

Daniel Mainwaring

102

The Pornhub Empire

CBC

103

UNAFRAID

Eddie Penney

104

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

105

The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

106

Prenderse Fuego: Las Voces de Pedro Lemebel

Podium Podcast Chile

107

The Wild Dispatch

Robin Warman

108

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

109

On Assignment

Reuters

110

The Mark Schulein Passion Project

Mark Schulein

111

Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast

Clem Dallaway

112

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

113

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

114

Our Common Nature

WNYC

115

Unreliable Witness | Storycast

Sky News

116

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

117

BioHacked: Family Secrets

Sony Music Entertainment

118

WhatsApp University And Corona(Hindi) The Debator!

The Galaga Guy

119

Paper Trail

ProPublica

120

The Gas Man

Tortoise Media

121

Personally: Discount Dave (and the Fix)

CBC

122

Nickels and Crimes

SRM+

123

Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial

BBC Sounds

124

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

iHeartPodcasts

125

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

126

Cults and Secret Societies

Forbidden Knowledge Network

127

Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott

Zara McDermott

128

The Other Latif

WNYC Studios

129

The Obit Project

Jad Abumrad and Jule Banville

130

The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)

Foreign Policy magazine

131

Legendary Legacy - Recap Daily

Os Studio

132

Kontrafunk: Fernruf

Kontrafunk - Die Stimme der Vernunft

133

Scary but True Campfire Stories

Matthew S Newbold

134

Las Raras

Las Raras

135

The Greatest Stories Never Told

Craig Clemens, Roger Love

136

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

137

MinionMinionMinion: A Minioncast

The Minions

138

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139

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

140

Profile

BBC Radio 4

141

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

142

The Vanishing of Janis Rose

Sony Music Entertainment

143

Into The Dirt

Tortoise Media

144

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145

Justin Bieber - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

146

Dark Stories

Dark Stories

147

Comfort Sounds

Comfort Sounds

148

Marshall Islands: After the Bomb Dropped

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

149

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

150

Mythology And Folklore For Sleep

The Sleepy Mythkeeper

151

Elizabeth the First

Imperative Entertainment and House of Taylor

152

State of the Unknown | Documentary Stories of Real Unexplained Encounters

Robert Barber

153

Extreme

BBC

154

SuperHuman

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

155

Jack Osbourne's The Most Haunted

Osbourne Media

156

King Kong Consciousness

The Prince of Pan-Africanism

157

پادکست روایت لاین | Revayat Line Podcast

Nima Mohamadkhani

158

Someone’s In Here

Ben Castleman

159

The Crimes of Margo Freshwater

Sony Music Entertainment

160

Dear America

Beyonce Grizzle

161

Party Crews: The Untold Story

My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts

162

The Politics of Pandemics

DG

163

Days Like These

ABC Australia

164

The Story of Bo-Kaap

EWN

165

A Vida Dupla do Espião Traidor

Observador

166

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

167

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

168

The Cows Are Mad

BBC Radio 4

169

Основано на реальных событиях

libo/libo

170

The Unconventional Soldier

theunconventionalsoldier

171

Al Jazeera Documentary

Al Jazeera Network

172

De Ware Jacob

Dagblad van het Noorden

173

Millie Bobby Brown - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

174

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

175

Inconceivable Truth

Audiochuck

176

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

177

It's Blanko's Show

Unknown

178

Breech Birth Podcast

Sasha Hopkins

179

The Modern West

Wyoming Public Media

180

Inheritance: Samsung

BBC World Service

181

Mel Robbins - Audio Biography

Inception Point AI

182

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

Katy Shields

183

Billie Eilish - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

184

Serum

Local Trance

185

Fighting Crime

Arnold Ventures

186

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

187

Ukraine War: Uncovered

Anna Krys, Pavlo Bogachenko

188

Murder or Suicide

Shea

189

The Stephen Howson Podcast

Stephen Howson

190

Pipeline

Daily Mail

191

Inspire Africa Series

Inspire Africa Series

192

File on 4 Investigates

BBC Radio 4

193

Louisiana Eats

Poppy Tooker

194

I Talk To Ghosts

Jennifer Page

195

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

196

Brown Eyes/Blue Eyes Interview

Adeline Vigil

197

Coffeehouse Crime

Coffeehouse Crime

198

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

199

Pablo Escobar: Escape from La Catedral

Spotify Studios

200

7 jours sur Terre

7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay

201

ARC

ARC

202

Dark Matters – Geheimnisse der Geheimdienste

SWR3, rbb24 Inforadio, Eva-Maria Lemke

203

אסיף - יומני שבעה באוקטובר Asif - Diaries of the 7th of October

כאן | Kan

204

World’s Greatest Love Stories Podcast

Kevin Leadingham

205

Investigating Ikigai

Joe Taylor

206

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse

On the Ground with Samaritan's Purse

207

Agroecology Uprooted

IATP

208

Sabotage

Good Luck Media

209

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

210

Life with Ghosts — LET'S CHAT!

Stephen Berkley

211

Atonement: The John Paulk Story

iHeartPodcasts

212

Strange Stories UK

DBC

213

Who Robs A Banksy?

Podimo & Message Heard

214

Chits and Chats | Klits en Klets

Ame and Roedene

215

The Superhero Complex

iHeartPodcasts and Novel

216

#SilasHorror

#SilasHorror

217

Culture Dumps

Culture Dumps

218

Getting Free

International Beit Din

219

Hidden Cults

Nik Hunter

220

The Consciousness Cassettes

Ky Dickens

221

Covering Their Tracks

Tablet Studios

222

Steven Bartlett - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

223

Sky Signal

Jason Abadi

224

WDR 5 Dok 5 - das Feature

WDR 5

225

Tides of History

Alaina Kothe

226

Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed

Lynn Studio

227

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

228

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

Amanda Mednansky and Lindsey Charlick

229

Cryptids Across the Atlas

Cryptids Across the Atlas

230

Flight Risk Studios

Robert Bruton

231

Toplines and Tales

Andy Frazier

232

Sold a Story

APM Reports

233

Landbouweekliks

Media24 Leefstyl

234

Organisiertes Verbrechen - Recherchen im Verborgenen

NDR Info

235

疑案辦的有聲無影

重大歷史懸疑案件調查辦公室

236

Boomtown

Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly

237

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

238

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

239

The Infographics Show Podcast

E.A Inc

240

More Muslim

More Muslim

241

Air Crash Chronicles

Air Crash Chronicles

242

THE ARTIFACT: True Stories of Fraud, Ego, and the Lies We Call Fact

The Artifact

243

Heaven's Helpline

NZ Herald

244

De Erfenis

AudioCollectief SCHIK

245

Biggie Smalls/Tupac Beef and Deaths

Caden Roth

246

La fabrique du mensonge

France Télévisions

247

Djævlen i detaljen

DR

248

Gateway: Cocaine, Murder, & Dirty Money in Europe

Brazen

249

The Long Time Academy

Headspace Studios, The Long Time Project, Scenery Studios

250

Money Trauma

Miho Soon

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