Apple Podcast Rankings - France - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in France

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in France. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 01 déc. 2025

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12/01/2025

Average data

Episodes: 110

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:31:47

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. BBC (3 shows)

3. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

4. TVONEAR (2 shows)

5. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Ausha (9 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (7 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
5	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
6	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
9	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
12	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
13	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
14	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
15	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
16	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
19	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
20	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
21	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
22	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
23	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
24	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
25	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
26	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
27	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
28	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
29	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
30	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
31	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
32	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
33	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
34	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
35	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
36	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
37	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
38	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
39	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
40	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
41	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
42	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
45	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
46	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
47	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
48	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
49	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
50	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
51	Entre Deux Vagues	Chloe Leger	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	64
52	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
53	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
55	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
56	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
57	Là où les voix résonnent : échos de centres de rétention administrative	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Acast	63
58	DES RACINES & DES AILES	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	35	Audiomeans	63
59	Les orphelins du 13 novembre	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	48
60	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
61	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
62	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
63	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
64	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
65	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
66	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
67	Sociétés	Yoann Missolo	Science	29	Acast	89
68	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
69	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
70	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
71	Sur la route de la Pomme du Limousin AOP	Syndicat AOP Pomme du Limousin	Society & Culture	1	Podcastics	69
72	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
73	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
74	Top Comment	BBC	News	97	BBC	48
75	impermanent	Léonie Ragot	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
76	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
77	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
78	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
79	Más Allá del Rosa	Jessica Fernández	Society & Culture	228	Acast	79
80	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
81	Before We Go	Podcast Nation	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	59
82	Campagnes urbaines	Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
83	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
84	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
85	Les Dossiers Warren	Emma Benzelmat	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	53
86	Se Retrouver - Inclusive Beauty	Fondation L'Oréal	Society & Culture	13	Acast	79
87	Quando c'era L'Unità. Un podcast di Roberto Roscani	Fandango Podcast	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	48
88	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
89	Gendarmerie Nationale, 300 Nuances de bleu	Gendarmerie Podcast	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
90	Kintsugi, l'histoire de ma reconstruction	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Audion	83
91	Les Cris	Atelier Frissonne	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
92	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	72	Audioboom	58
93	Left To Their Own Devices	Toronto Star	Society & Culture	13	Libsyn	68
94	JP fortæller	Jyllands-Posten	Society & Culture	26	Omny Studio	59
95	Stolpertexte	Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk	Society & Culture	8	Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk	54
96	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
97	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
98	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
99	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
100	Nos chaînons invisibles	Elson	Society & Culture	15	Podcastics	74

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