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New Zealand · 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	2		Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House
2	—		The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service
3	1		The Birth Keepers \| The Guardian Investigates	The Guardian
5	1		World of Secrets	BBC
5	—		Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network
6	1		Flightless Bird	David Farrier
7	1		What It Was Like	Superreal
9	9		The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens
9	2		Murder in the Masai Mara \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph
9	1		Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
9	—		Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal
10	4		This Is Actually Happening	Audible
11	9		RNZ100: A Century of Stories	RNZ
12	—		Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts
13	5	T	The Lodge	RNZ
13	1		The Gift	BBC Radio 4
15	2		heretics.	Andrew Gold
15	1		The Slow Newscast	The Observer
17	3		The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller
19	4		The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch
19	5		Uncanny	BBC Radio 4
21	—		Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR
21	22		The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts
23	4	K	Kelly Tarlton's Final Treasure Hunt	RNZ
23	—		The CRUX: True Survival Stories	Kaycee McIntosh, Julie Henningsen, Bleav
24	21		Lucky Boy	Tortoise Media
25	6		The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds
25	8		Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale
27	3		Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media
27	17		Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media
28	—		Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts
29	28		搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉
29	3		Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media
30	9		Noble	Audiochuck
30	—		I'm Not a Monster	BBC Radio 5 Live
31	—		The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast
32	3		Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts
33	4		Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez
33	9		The Tavistock: inside the gender clinic	Tortoise Media
33	—		The Commune	Stuff Audio
34	—	C	Cleopatra - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai
34	—	J	JOURNEY	Ryan Wolf
35	52		Into The Dirt	Tortoise Media
35	9		Mysteries at Bedtime	Jack Laurence
36	57		Hoaxed	Tortoise Media
36	—		28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4
37	—	T	The Nature of Natural	JA Media Productions
40	—		Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	The Forbidden Knowledge Network
40	11		Witness: Sex, Lies and Streaming	news.com.au
41	9		Great Lives	BBC Radio 4
41	—		Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media
42	61		Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly
43	—		Coining It	Global
44	21		The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4
45	—		Bed of Lies	The Telegraph
46	13		Seriously...	BBC Radio 4
46	8		Our Common Nature	WNYC
46	70		Be Amazed	Be Amazed
47	118		Jungle Prince	The New York Times
48	7		Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media
49	4		Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley, Bleav
50	—		Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify
50	4		A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4
52	6		Extreme	BBC
53	—	P	Pariah	Tortoise Media
54	—	D	De Erfenis	AudioCollectief SCHIK
54	—		How I Survived	Pacific Podcast Network
55	—	A	Avestruz Master	Rádio Novelo
55	—		Hyperfixed	Hyperfixed & Radiotopia
56	—	T	The Arrowtown Podcast	Nick Fifield
57	11		Profile	BBC Radio 4
57	—		Collapse	Stuff Audio
60	—		Ghost Tales by the Fireside - True Ghost Stories Podcast	Clem Dallaway
60	1		Surviving El Chapo: The Twins Who Brought Down A Drug Lord	iHeartPodcasts
61	—		Delayland – Germany and the Missing Magic	DW
62	2		Thunder Bay	Canadaland
63	—		Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories
63	6		The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast
64	3		The Banksy Story	BBC Radio 4
65	—		What's Missing	Casefile Presents
66	13		Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
66	22		5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan
66	18		Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster
67	—		The Agent	Imperative Entertainment
68	4		Personally: Creation Myth	CBC
70	11		Psychonauten	Philipp Wagner, Jan Beigel
71	5		The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts
73	13	T	Think Global, Do Justice	Canopy International
73	15	T	The Invisible Hand	Casefile Presents
74	10		Into The Fog with Peter Laws	Peter Laws
74	—		The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg
75	42		Hidden Homicides	Louise Tickle and Tortoise Media
76	24		Pig Iron	Tortoise Media
77	—		Hooked on Freddie	Audible
77	—		Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
78	3		The Gas Man	Tortoise Media
79	—	T	The Pacific Way	The Pacific Community (SPC)
79	55		Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo
80	—	C	Culture Dumps	Culture Dumps