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New Zealand · Apple Podcasts · January 13, 2026

Jan 13, 2026

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#			Podcast	Artist
1	—		Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House
1	—		The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service
1	4		The Walkers: The real Salt Path \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer
3	1		The Birth Keepers \| The Guardian Investigates	The Guardian
3	—		World of Secrets	BBC
6	2		Murder in the Masai Mara \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph
6	4		Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts
6	—		Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal
6	7		What It Was Like	Superreal
6	1		Flightless Bird	David Farrier
7	—		Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale
8	4		Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network
10	1		Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
11	7		Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR
14	8	T	The Lodge	RNZ
15	1		RNZ100: A Century of Stories	RNZ
15	—		This Is Actually Happening	Audible
16	1		heretics.	Andrew Gold
17	3		The Slow Newscast	The Observer
19	—		The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens
19	2	K	Kelly Tarlton's Final Treasure Hunt	RNZ
20	1		Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence
21	—		Uncanny	BBC Radio 4
22	10		Great Lives	BBC Radio 4
22	5		Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media
22	9		The CRUX: True Survival Stories	Kaycee McIntosh, Julie Henningsen, Bleav
24	9		Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media
24	7		Witness: Sex, Lies and Streaming	news.com.au
24	—		I'm Not a Monster	BBC Radio 5 Live
25	1		The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast
27	5		The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch
30	7		The Gift	BBC Radio 4
32	8		Lucky Boy	Tortoise Media
33	9		The Commune	Stuff Audio
33	8		The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller
34	—		Collapse	Stuff Audio
34	4		A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4
35	—		Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez
36	37		Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
37	47	R	Room 5	BBC Radio 4
38	7	P	Pariah	Tortoise Media
38	—	J	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf
39	—	E	Extraordinary Stories	Mamamia Podcasts
39	4		Child	BBC Radio 4
39	134		Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media
40	9		The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media
41	66		The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment
41	29		The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast
42	29		Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify
42	11		The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds
42	11		Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories
43	—		Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster
43	58		The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions
44	25		The Agent	Imperative Entertainment
44	65		Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway
44	12		The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4
44	—	T	The District	Stuff Audio
45	12		The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts
46	29		The Gas Man	Tortoise Media
49	34	C	Culture Dumps	Culture Dumps
49	118		Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios
49	3		The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe
50	24		搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉
50	83		REAL LIVES	Naomi Channell
51	80		Behind The Barcode	Baptist World Aid Australia
51	—		Dear Jane	The Spinoff
52	—		Heaven's Helpline	NZ Herald
52	42		Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly
52	6		Marianna in Conspiracyland	BBC Radio 4
54	5		Noble	Audiochuck
54	19		Our Common Nature	WNYC
54	—		Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media
55	—	V	Verbal Highs	Lewis Tennant
55	—		Jungle Prince	The New York Times
56	86		Pig Iron	Tortoise Media
57	8		Unreliable Witness \| Storycast	Sky News
57	—		Threshold	Auricle Productions
58	15		The Palisades Fire: A Sandcastles Special	Wave Maker Media
59	119		Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces
61	6		Hyperfixed	Hyperfixed & Radiotopia
61	5		Profile	BBC Radio 4
61	—	W	Welcome to Paradise	CBC
62	86		ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari
62	—		Van Dis Ongefilterd	Atlas Contact / Adriaan van Dis
63	—		A Bit of a Stretch - The Podcast	Chris Atkins
63	—		Cement City	Audacy \| Cement City Productions
63	9		File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4
63	19		You Look Like Me	Louise McLoughlin
64	6		Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime
65	134		Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star
68	—		The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome	Brazen
68	—		Hoaxed	Tortoise Media
68	17		Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
69	46		5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan
70	—		Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo
71	—		Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts
72	6		Bed of Lies	The Telegraph
72	10		The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4
73	1		Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media
74	19	T	The After-Action Report	Seth Hettena