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 02 Feb 2026

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02/02/2026

Average data

Episodes: 125

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:32:48

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. RTL (3 shows)

5. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Audiomeans (19 shows)

3. Ausha (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 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	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
4	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
7	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
8	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
11	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
12	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
16	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
18	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
19	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
20	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
21	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
22	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
23	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
24	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
25	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
26	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
27	Leurs vestiaires	Coraline Chancibot	Business	17	Acast	79
28	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
29	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
30	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
31	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
32	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
33	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
34	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
35	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
36	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
37	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
38	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
39	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
40	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
41	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
42	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
43	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
44	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
45	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
46	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
47	DS Automobiles	majelan X	Society & Culture	1	Audiomeans	84
48	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
49	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
50	Juste avant	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
51	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
52	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
53	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
54	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
55	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
56	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
57	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
58	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
59	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1959	Omny Studio	52
60	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
61	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
62	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
63	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
65	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
66	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
67	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	28
68	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
69	TIJ (The Inner Journey)	Amel	Society & Culture	100	Podbean	53
70	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
71	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
72	Nano, ce qu'il reste de nous	Marion Passault	Society & Culture	11	Ausha	63
73	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
74	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
75	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
76	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
77	Puerto Rico, la isla del encanto	Heïdi Soupault	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	63
78	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
79	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
80	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
81	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
82	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
83	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
84	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Acast	84
85	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
86	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
87	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
88	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
89	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
90	Au rythme du Haut-Jura	Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura	Society & Culture	15	Podcastics	64
91	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
92	Identités	Dakitse ou Eloge	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	53
93	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
94	CAMBIUM, le podcast de l'agroforesterie	Association Française d'Agroforesterie	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
95	La saga Netflix	BFM Business	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	53
96	Equipo de investigación	Onda Cero Podcast	Society & Culture	38	Megaphone	89
97	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
98	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
99	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
100	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

The podcast landscape in France is constantly evolving, with new shows emerging and established ones climbing the ranks. Our data reveals intriguing trends in podcasting, such as the average number of episodes produced, typical episode lengths, and the most consistent publication schedules. These insights can help listeners find their next favorite podcast and give creators a deeper understanding of what resonates with their audience.

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