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South Africa · Apple Podcasts · January 6, 2026

Jan 6, 2026

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#			Podcast	Artist
1	—		World of Secrets	BBC
2	—		Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale
3	—		The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service
4	3		Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
5	2		The Birth Keepers \| The Guardian Investigates	The Guardian
6	2		This Is Actually Happening	Audible
7	2		Murder in the Masai Mara \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph
8	1		Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media
9	1		Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network
10	2		The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens
11	—		The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch
12	—		Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal
13	3		The Walkers: The real Salt Path \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer
14	1		Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez
15	1		Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media
16	6		I'm Not a Monster	BBC Radio 5 Live
17	2		heretics.	Andrew Gold
18	6		The CRUX: True Survival Stories	Kaycee McIntosh, Julie Henningsen, Bleav
19	6		What It Was Like	Superreal
20	3		Alien UFO Podcast	Simon Bown
21	11		The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts
22	4		Secrets We Keep	LiSTNR
23	6		The Slow Newscast	The Observer
24	10		The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast
25	8		JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast
26	8		Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly
27	7		Uncanny	BBC Radio 4
28	4		How I Survived	Pacific Podcast Network
29	9		The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast
30	6	C	CentTwinz - I've Been Through The Most Podcast	Centtwinz Podcast
31	12	I	I Lived Through This	Killer Audio Creations
32	9		Flightless Bird	David Farrier
33	12		Jay Shetty - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai
34	2		ARC	ARC
35	27		Marianna in Conspiracyland	BBC Radio 4
36	12		Great Lives	BBC Radio 4
37	3		Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts
38	1		Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts
39	—	T	The Invisible Hand	Casefile Presents
40	11		Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
41	14		Lucky Boy	Tortoise Media
42	6	V	Visionaries	Unknown
43	16	W	WhatsApp University And Corona(Hindi) The Debator!	The Galaga Guy
44	17	A	Adrfit	The Adrift Podcast
45	19		Seriously...	BBC Radio 4
46	17		Hysterical	Audible \| Pineapple Street Studios
47	63		Campus Files	Audacy
48	15		SCAMMERLAND	Superreal
49	33		Steven Bartlett - Audio Biography	Inception Point Ai
50	—		Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts
51	26		Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ
52	17	T	The Issue with Dan Corder	Africa Podcast Network
53	15	O	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan
54	15	D	Deadly Misadventures	Deadly Misadventures
55	26		Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime
56	2		Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin
57	14		Bed of Lies	The Telegraph
58	18		Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify
59	28		Extreme	BBC
60	19		The Vanishing of Janis Rose	Sony Music Entertainment
61	26		Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts
62	87		File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4
63	21		Hyperfixed	Hyperfixed & Radiotopia
64	73		Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts
65	36		The Gift	BBC Radio 4
66	19	A	Alice in Wanderland	Alice Morrison
67	—	T	TrueLife	George Monty
68	20	H	Huisgenoot - Agter die storie	Media24 Leefstyl
69	10	W	Wake Up With The Wolf	Cole DaSilva
70	22		Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia
71	46	G	Great Disasters	Kari Fay
72	13		28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4
73	20		Paranoid American	Thomas Gorence
74	7		Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer
75	20	C	Call Bethel	The Telegraph
76	18		Sasquatch Odyssey	Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters
77	8		Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio
78	16		Storytime	Storytime
79	41		Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media
80	30		The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller
81	26		Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC
82	20		The Improvement Association	Serial Productions & The New York Times
83	20		Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez	Sonoro \| Futuro Studios
84	20		给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯
85	20		闪光少女	闪光少女斯斯
86	20	S	Spy Stories	spystoriespod
87	82	T	The Documentary Files	Pedro Vazquez
88	—		The Whispering Woods : Real Life Ghost & Paranormal Stories	True, Scary, Paranormal, Folklore and Ghost Stories
89	13		The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds
90	30		Passages	Louie Media
91	35		The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4
92	32		A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4
93	53		Fringe Network: Alien State	Somethin' Else / Sony Music Entertainment
94	31		Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media
95	23		Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories
96	26		The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold
97	26		Our American Stories	iHeartPodcasts
98	36		Gay Girl Gone	CBC
99	42		The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg
100	35		Be Amazed	Be Amazed