Top Documentary Podcasts in South Africa

The latest Apple Podcasts Documentary chart for South Africa, refreshed throughout the day. Last checked October 25, 2026.

1

The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

2

Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

3

Missing Debbie | Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

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

World of Secrets

BBC

7

Spiral | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

8

Inheritance

BBC World Service

9

What It Was Like

Superreal

10

The Hidden Third

Mariana van Zeller

11

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

12

Black Box: The Chatbots

The Guardian

13

This Is Actually Happening

Audible

14

Personally: Agent Layla

CBC

15

The Diamond King | Telegraph Investigates

The Telegraph

16

The Crux True Survival Stories

The Crux True Survival Stories

17

Documentary on One Podcast

RTÉ Documentary on One

18

The Commune

Stuff Audio

19

Uncanny

BBC Radio 4

20

The Slow Newscast

The Observer

21

Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter

Forbidden Knowledge Network

22

SuperHuman

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

23

Sold a Story

APM Reports

24

Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries

Olimpia Pérez

25

WhatsApp University And Corona(Hindi) The Debator!

The Galaga Guy

26

Otherworld

Otherworld

27

Dark Matters – Geheimnisse der Geheimdienste

SWR3, rbb24 Inforadio, Eva-Maria Lemke

28

Strangers on a Bench

Tom Rosenthal

29

Swingers

BBC Radio Wales

30

Heretics | Andrew Gold

Andrew Gold

31

Reaching Out

Futuro Media

32

The Telepathy Tapes

Ky Dickens

33

Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups

Forbidden Knowledge Network

34

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones | Daylight Media

35

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

Secrets & Spies

36

Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman

Tortoise Media

37

Stories from a Stranger

Higher Ground

38

Lucky Boy

Tortoise Media

39

Thunder Bay

Canadaland

40

Chameleon: Dr. Miracle

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

41

The Brothers Ortiz

Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts

42

Curse of: Miss America

iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts

43

Decoder Ring

Slate Podcasts

44

Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

45

Hidden Homicides

Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media

46

On Assignment

Reuters

47

Everyone Has An Ex

Mamamia Podcasts

48

The Reincarnation Records (The Telepathy Tapes Season 3)

TTT Media

49

Great Lives

BBC Radio 4

50

I Lived Through This

Killer Audio Creations

51

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

52

The Consciousness Cassettes (The Telepathy Tapes Season 2)

TTT Media

53

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

54

Seriously...

BBC Radio 4

55

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

Byte & Pieces

56

The Whispering Woods : True Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories

57

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

58

How I Survived

That's Life!

59

The Birth Keepers

The Guardian

60

Here Be Monsters

Here Be Monsters

61

The Secret World of Roald Dahl

iHeartPodcasts

62

File on 4 Investigates

BBC Radio 4

63

The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic

Tortoise Media

64

Embedded

NPR

65

Secrets We Keep

LiSTNR

66

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

67

Fascinating People Fascinating Places

Daniel Mainwaring

68

Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

69

CentTwinz - I've Been Through The Most Podcast

Centtwinz Podcast

70

Mythology And Folklore For Sleep

The Sleepy Mythkeeper

71

The Relocated South African | Emigration stories

Jan Hugo - Emigration stories expert

72

Dalton Fischer Podcast

Dalton Fischer

73

Focus: We Keep Us Safe

KUOW News and Information

74

Kurzgesagt Podcast: Science Revealed

Lynn Studio

75

Storytime

Storytime

76

Breech Birth Podcast

Sasha Hopkins

77

TheBlueTickShow

THE BLUETICK SHOW

78

OnlyFantasy

Audible

79

Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities

Audacy

80

The Shrink Next Door

Audible | Bloomberg

81

To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll

Rubrik | Nicole Perlroth

82

Sweet Bobby

Tortoise Media

83

Young Professionals from Nedbank

Primedia Broadcasting

84

Landbouweekliks

Media24 Leefstyl

85

Legacy: Sports Stories

Stak

86

Party Crews: The Untold Story

My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts

87

Stuff Matters with Ed Conway

Sky News

88

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

89

ARC

MED CINE

90

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

91

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

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

92

Affaires sensibles

France Inter

93

The Compendium: An Assembly of Fascinating Things

Strange True Stories with Kyle Risi & Adam Cox

94

Theories of the Third Kind

Theories of the Third Kind

95

Threshold

Auricle Productions

96

Better in Person with Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics Radio

97

Chameleon: The Michigan Plot

Sony Music Entertainment / Campside Media

98

Profile

BBC Radio 4

99

Hidden Cults

Nik Hunter

100

Daily Affirmations & Meditations

HustleStudios Podcast Network

101

Political Lens

XLab Network

102

Kontrafunk: Tondokument

Kontrafunk

103

Comfort Sounds

Comfort Sounds

104

The Missing Sister

iHeartPodcasts

105

Frantz Fanon: revolutionary psychiatrist

WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund

106

Real Life Ghost Stories

Real Life Ghost Stories

107

The Missing Cryptoqueen

BBC Sounds

108

5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Andrew Callaghan

109

What I survived

Jack Laurence

110

The Infographics Show Podcast

E.A Inc

111

A Very British Cult

BBC Radio 4

112

The Brohio Podcast

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

113

Elon's Spies

Tortoise Media

114

Here We Are, The Living

Quiet Night

115

The Harvard Plan

The Boston Globe

116

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

Ali Bandari

117

Hysterical

Audible | Pineapple Street Studios

118

Into The Fog with Peter Laws

Peter Laws

119

Creepy Shit

Creepy Shit

120

Extreme

BBC

121

The Story of Belarus

Talk Eastern Europe

122

SAS: The Shadow War

The Independent / Aurra Studios

123

Sound, Light & Frequency

iHeartPodcasts

124

Question Everything

Brian Reed

125

The Improvement Association

Serial Productions & The New York Times

126

Три Истории

ТО Без Тормозов

127

Van Dis Ongefilterd

Atlas Contact / Adriaan van Dis

128

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

Jimmy Akin

129

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

Will Soto

130

AsianBoss-Asian History Podcast

AsianBoss

131

The Agent

Imperative Entertainment

132

Louisiana Eats

Poppy Tooker

133

Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained

Haunted UK

134

Noble

Audiochuck

135

Belief Hole | Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks

SpectreVision Radio

136

The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women (HERO)

Foreign Policy magazine

137

Falling Tree

Falling Tree

138

28ish Days Later

BBC Radio 4

139

Tourette's Talk

Paige Austin

140

Paper Trail

ProPublica

141

Sorry About The Kid

CBC

142

Strongman

VICE

143

Alien UFO Podcast

Simon Bown

144

Patient 11

Sky News

145

Telephone Stories

Ninth Planet Audio

146

A Show About Animals

VICE

147

Source Material

VICE

148

Rihanna - Biography Flash

Liquid Studios

149

Into The Dirt

Tortoise Media

150

Scene on Radio

Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University

151

The Experiment

The Atlantic and WNYC Studios

152

Ripple

American Public Media

153

Johnathan Walton Media

Johnathan Walton

154

Weight For It

ohitsBigRon Studios

155

Bitter Blood: Kasem V Kasem

Audible Originals

156

Hoaxed

Tortoise Media

157

The Unconventional Soldier

theunconventionalsoldier

158

I Talk To Ghosts

Jennifer Page

159

Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera Network

160

Adrift

Apple TV / Blanchard House

161

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

The Artifact

162

Untold: Opus Dei

Financial Times

163

The Witch Farm

BBC Radio 4

164

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

165

The Gift

BBC Radio 4

166

Pure Evil

Forbidden Knowledge Network

167

Who Robs A Banksy?

Podimo & Message Heard

168

Fatal Fantasy

Sony Music Entertainment

169

Cults and Secret Societies

Forbidden Knowledge Network

170

The Squarepeg Podcast

Amy Richards

171

Deep Secrets

Nothing To See Here, Inc.

172

History Well Told

Pri-media

173

The Know Rogan Experience

Cross Pond Productions

174

Sky Signal

Jason Abadi

175

De Ware Jacob

Dagblad van het Noorden

176

The Paranormal Podcast

Jim Harold

177

Skyline Drive: How to Live Forever

iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope

178

Spicy Alien After Dark

Alien

179

The Pornhub Empire

CBC

180

Investigating Ikigai

Joe Taylor

181

History's Great Mysteries

Nick

182

Al Jazeera Documentary

Al Jazeera Network

183

Mysteries at Bedtime

Jack Laurence

184

Radio Ambulante

My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts

185

Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan

IRONCLAD

186

Jungle Prince

The New York Times

187

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Rádio Novelo

188

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur

189

Natalie McNally Murder: YouTuber on Trial

BBC Sounds

190

Fleureo Files

fleureo

191

Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine

Dr. Ed Hasan

192

Conspiracy Theories Project

Forbidden Knowledge Network

193

What's Missing

Casefile Presents

194

Searching for America with Robyn Curnow

Robyn Curnow, Bleav

195

WTF is on my Mind?!

Mark Vicente

196

Radio Marz | پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز

Marzie

197

Canary: The Washington Post Investigates

The Washington Post

198

Под куполом

Ivan Makridin

199

Truth Be Told with Zara McDermott

Zara McDermott

200

Leaving Eden Podcast

Leaving Eden LLC

201

Causality

The Engineered Network

202

Jay Shetty - Biography Flash

Liquid Studios

203

The Baron of Botox

Imperative Entertainment

204

PRAVITY

franklet

205

REAL LIVES

Naomi Channell

206

Morgana

Storielibere.fm

207

Short Cuts

BBC Radio 4

208

Reflector

Longview

209

Theo Von - Biography Flash

Liquid Studios

210

What Lingers

What Lingers Pod

211

搞钱女孩

搞钱女孩小辉

212

Gateway: Cocaine, Murder, & Dirty Money in Europe

Brazen

213

The Wild Dispatch

Robin Warman

214

给女孩的商业第一课

闪光少女斯斯

215

Criminal Justice Matters

The Criminal Bar Association

216

You Look Like Me

Louise McLoughlin

217

My Year in Mensa

iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus

218

Sabotage

Good Luck Media

219

On podcast پادکست آن

mersen

220

The Corrymeela Podcast

Corrymeela

221

Jack The Ripper: First Murder

Sarah Dunn

222

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

223

Julie Bindel's podcasts and writing

Julie Bindel

224

Talk Doc To Me

The Documentary Couple

225

Odessa

The New York Times

226

Wild Crimes

ARD

227

The Private Record

Matt D’Elia x UIU

228

The Poet

Sony Music Entertainment

229

The Speaker

KQED

230

Childless not by Choice

Civilla M. Morgan

231

JAXXON PODCAST

Jaxxon Podcast

232

The Lodge

RNZ

233

The Caucasus podcast

Języki Kaukazu

234

I'll Always Be Your Brother

Alan, Benji Anstey, Taylan Bülbül

235

The Flood

The Australian

236

Next Up East Rand

Next Up East Rand

237

All I Can Be

The Smith Family

238

Concrete Mama: An Unincarcerated Podcast

Unincarcerated Productions

239

日本浮游

日本浮游

240

Marilyn: Behind the Icon

Gary Vitacco-Robles, Nina Boski and Randall Libero

241

Getting Free

International Beit Din

242

Declassified

Jude Bela

243

I Am Refocused Radio

I Am Refocused Radio

244

Pariah

Tortoise Media

245

La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir

The French Whisperer

246

Howard Stern - Biography Flash

Liquid Studios

247

ARC

MED CINE

248

Gary Vaynerchuk - Biography Flash

Inception Point AI

249

Crossing the Line

Population Media Center

250

Who Built the Pyramids?

Pyramid Podcast Network

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