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South Africa · Apple Podcasts · January 5, 2026

Jan 5, 2026

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#			Podcast	Artist
1	—		Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
1	—		World of Secrets	BBC
2	3		Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale
3	—		The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service
3	2		The Birth Keepers \| The Guardian Investigates	The Guardian
4	1		This Is Actually Happening	Audible
7	2		Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media
8	3		The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens
8	1		Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network
9	2		Murder in the Masai Mara \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph
10	2		The Walkers: The real Salt Path \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer
11	—		The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch
12	9		Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal
12	—		The CRUX: True Survival Stories	Kaycee McIntosh, Julie Henningsen, Bleav
13	2		Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez
13	5		What It Was Like	Superreal
14	4		The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast
14	2		Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media
16	84		Steven Bartlett - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai
17	4		The Slow Newscast	The Observer
17	15		Alien UFO Podcast	Simon Bown
18	3		Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly
19	3	I	I Lived Through This	Killer Audio Creations
19	2		heretics.	Andrew Gold
20	1		Uncanny	BBC Radio 4
20	39		The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast
21	11		Jay Shetty - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai
22	16		I'm Not a Monster	BBC Radio 5 Live
23	7		Flightless Bird	David Farrier
24	4		How I Survived	Pacific Podcast Network
24	1	C	CentTwinz - I've Been Through The Most Podcast	Centtwinz Podcast
25	5	G	Great Disasters	Kari Fay
25	15		Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ
26	136		Seriously...	BBC Radio 4
26	3		Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR
27	24	W	WhatsApp University And Corona(Hindi) The Debator!	The Galaga Guy
27	7		Lucky Boy	Tortoise Media
27	17	A	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast
29	18		Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime
29	60		Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios
29	5		The Gift	BBC Radio 4
29	7		Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
31	9		Extreme	BBC
32	3		ARC	ARC
32	10		The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts
33	1		JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast
33	9		SCAMMERLAND	Superreal
34	3		Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts
35	7		Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
35	130	T	The Issue with Dan Corder	Africa Podcast Network
36	—	V	Visionaries	Unknown
37	1		Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts
38	—	O	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan
38	19		Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media
39	—	D	Deadly Misadventures	Deadly Misadventures
40	7		Fringe Network: Alien State	Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment
41	11		The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment
42	11		Hyperfixed	Hyperfixed & Radiotopia
43	26		Bed of Lies	The Telegraph
47	16	A	Alice in Wanderland	Alice Morrison
48	9		Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
48	12	H	Huisgenoot - Agter die storie	Media24 Leefstyl
48	26		Great Lives	BBC Radio 4
50	12		The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller
50	86		Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts
53	3		Paranoid American	Thomas Gorence
54	10		Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin
55	24	C	Call Bethel	The Telegraph
55	83		Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC
56	66		The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4
57	1		The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg
58	9		Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters
59	16		28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4
60	95		A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4
60	7		Passages	Louie Media
62	7		The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times
62	28		Marianna in Conspiracyland	BBC Radio 4
62	14		Storytime	Storytime
62	16		Gay Girl Gone	CBC
63	7		Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media
63	9		Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez	Sonoro \| Futuro Studios
64	8		What's Missing	Casefile Presents
64	7		给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯
65	8		WDR 5 Dok 5 - das Feature	WDR 5
65	7		闪光少女	闪光少女斯斯
65	26		Be Amazed	Be Amazed
66	—		Witness: Sex, Lies and Streaming	news.com.au
66	7	S	Spy Stories	spystoriespod
67	—		The InBetween Official Podcast	The_InBetween
67	13		Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer
69	61		Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio
70	34		The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold
71	5		Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts
72	4		Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories
75	8		Noble	Audiochuck
76	29		The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds
76	69		Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman	Tortoise Media
76	6		Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify
77	—	T	The Corrymeela Podcast	Corrymeela
78	41		OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar