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New Zealand · Apple Podcasts · January 17, 2026

Jan 17, 2026

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#			Podcast	Artist
1	—		The Walkers: The real Salt Path \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer
2	—		The Birth Keepers \| The Guardian Investigates	The Guardian
2	—		The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service
4	—		Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House
5	1		Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network
6	1		World of Secrets	BBC
7	1		Flightless Bird	David Farrier
8	1	T	The Lodge	RNZ
8	—		What It Was Like	Superreal
9	2		Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal
10	2		Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
11	2		Murder in the Masai Mara \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph
12	2		Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts
14	6		The Gift	BBC Radio 4
14	—		This Is Actually Happening	Audible
14	—		The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller
15	1		The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch
16	2		The Slow Newscast	The Observer
17	6		heretics.	Andrew Gold
17	—		Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale
18	10		The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens
19	7		The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds
20	5		RNZ100: A Century of Stories	RNZ
21	—		Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR
23	6		The CRUX: True Survival Stories	Kaycee McIntosh, Julie Henningsen, Bleav
24	6		Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media
24	2		Uncanny	BBC Radio 4
26	—		Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence
27	5	K	Kelly Tarlton's Final Treasure Hunt	RNZ
28	5		Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts
29	7		Witness: Sex, Lies and Streaming	news.com.au
30	—		I'm Not a Monster	BBC Radio 5 Live
31	6		The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast
32	1		Great Lives	BBC Radio 4
32	4		Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media
33	4		The Commune	Stuff Audio
34	13	J	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf
35	15		Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts
36	42		28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4
37	6		Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez
38	7		Our Common Nature	WNYC
39	20		Noble	Audiochuck
41	72		Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media
41	7		Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media
42	7		The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media
43	23		Coining It	Global
43	9		The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts
44	4		5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan
44	15		Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media
45	11		Bed of Lies	The Telegraph
45	14		Lucky Boy	Tortoise Media
45	—		Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav
46	7		A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4
48	4		Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster
50	—		Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify
53	—		Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
53	18	P	Pariah	Tortoise Media
54	72		How I Survived	Pacific Podcast Network
55	18		Hyperfixed	Hyperfixed & Radiotopia
57	1		搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉
57	11		Collapse	Stuff Audio
58	13		Extreme	BBC
59	16		Seriously...	BBC Radio 4
59	—		Psychonauten	Philipp Wagner, Jan Beigel
60	53		Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway
60	10		Thunder Bay	Canadaland
60	—	T	Think Global, Do Justice	Canopy International
61	38		The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4
61	96		Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts
62	—		PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel
63	16		Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories
64	3		Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws
65	13		The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4
65	56		What's Missing	Casefile Presents
66	—		The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts
67	4		The Agent	Imperative Entertainment
68	33		Profile	BBC Radio 4
69	4		The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast
70	—	T	The Sullivanians:Through a Blue Window ((c) 2019 shelley feinerman's Podcast	shelley feinerman
72	31		Personally: Creation Myth	CBC
73	16		Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star
74	17		The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg
74	—		The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions
77	27		Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
80	22		Jay Shetty - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai
80	43	C	Culture Dumps	Culture Dumps
81	22		The Gas Man	Tortoise Media
82	26		The Unconventional Soldier	theunconventionalsoldier
83	34		BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment
85	23		Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan
85	32		Sold a Story	APM Reports
87	34		Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media
88	2		Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime
88	31	T	The Invisible Hand	Casefile Presents
89	11		Thrilling Threads - Conspiracy Theories, Strange Phenomena, Unsolved Mysteries, etc!	Byte & Pieces
90	7		A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio
90	19		Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios
91	19	T	Terrifying True Stories	Terrifying True Stories
91	—	N	Necesito poder respirar: La vida de Jorge González	Podium Podcast Chile
92	20		Pipeline	Daily Mail