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United Kingdom · Apple Podcasts · January 18, 2026

Jan 18, 2026

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#			Podcast	Artist
1	—		The Walkers: The real Salt Path \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer
2	—		Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal
3	—		Uncanny	BBC Radio 4
4	—		The Birth Keepers \| The Guardian Investigates	The Guardian
5	—		heretics.	Andrew Gold
6	—		Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House
7	—		Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network
8	—		The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service
9	1		The Slow Newscast	The Observer
9	1		Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws
10	—		The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens
12	3		The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds
12	1		Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
12	2		Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories
14	2		World of Secrets	BBC
15	1		Lucky Boy	Tortoise Media
16	—		Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media
17	1		The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast
18	2		This Is Actually Happening	Audible
18	3		Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
20	2		Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale
21	3		Coining It	Global
22	1		REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell
23	3		Great Lives	BBC Radio 4
23	2		On Hold	Storied
23	1		A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4
25	1		Child	BBC Radio 4
26	58		Profile	BBC Radio 4
27	—		Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez
27	1		Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media
27	5		What It Was Like	Superreal
28	1		Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media
31	3		I'm Not a Monster	BBC Radio 5 Live
31	8		Hoaxed	Tortoise Media
32	1		Murder in the Masai Mara \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph
34	1		The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch
34	19		The Gift	BBC Radio 4
35	1		Noble	Audiochuck
35	3		Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media
35	8	P	Pariah	Tortoise Media
35	—		The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast
38	3		The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4
39	3		Marianna in Conspiracyland	BBC Radio 4
40	3		The CRUX: True Survival Stories	Kaycee McIntosh, Julie Henningsen, Bleav
41	17		Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly
41	10		Inspectre Paranormal	Tom Barrow
42	8		Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify
43	2		Bed of Lies	The Telegraph
46	9		PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel
46	8		File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4
48	4		28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4
49	6		Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway
49	7		The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media
50	1		Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
50	1		Alien UFO Podcast	Simon Bown
51	4		White Men Can't Work!	Tim Samuels
51	11		Hyperfixed	Hyperfixed & Radiotopia
52	11		Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ
52	3		The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4
52	1		Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media
52	3		The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier
54	5		The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories
55	2		The Commune	Stuff Audio
55	25		Sold a Story	APM Reports
56	2		The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold
61	—		Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	The Forbidden Knowledge Network
62	15		Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts
63	3		The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller
64	43		Pig Iron	Tortoise Media
64	9	C	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit
65	5		Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts
66	53		Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media
67	16		The Gas Man	Tortoise Media
67	23		Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW
67	14		Flightless Bird	David Farrier
68	1		Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media
69	11		Thunder Bay	Canadaland
70	10		Strange Stories UK	DBC
70	4		The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg
70	3		Blethered	Sean McDonald
71	8		Pipeline	Daily Mail
72	19		Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces
72	4		Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts
73	—		Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ
73	—		Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups	The Forbidden Knowledge Network
74	3		Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News
75	8		Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts
75	16	T	The Big Drink Rethink	Anna Donaghey
77	7		Our Common Nature	WNYC
77	6		You Look Like Me	Louise McLoughlin
78	12		Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters
78	13		The Good Listener Podcast	John Hadden
79	7	P	Paranormal Portal UK	Den and Luke \| Paranormal Portal UK
79	20		Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime
80	2		Extreme	BBC
81	8	N	No Fear. No Favour. The SEEN in Journalism Podcast	SEEN in Journalism
85	12		Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios
87	11		Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence
89	2		搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉
91	19		ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari