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 Nov 2025

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11/02/2025

Average data

Episodes: 116

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:37:15

Top 5 authors

1. RTBF (4 shows)

2. Louie Media (4 shows)

3. Nouvelles Écoutes (3 shows)

4. RTL (3 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (13 shows)

4. Ausha (10 shows)

5. Megaphone (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	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
5	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
7	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
8	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
9	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
12	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
13	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
14	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
15	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
16	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
19	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
20	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
21	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
22	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
23	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
24	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
25	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
26	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
27	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
28	Entre Deux Vagues	Chloe Leger	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	64
29	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
30	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
31	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
32	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
33	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
34	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
35	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
36	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
37	Avestruz Master	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	6	Megaphone	53
38	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
39	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
40	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
41	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
42	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
43	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
44	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
45	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
46	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
47	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
48	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
49	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
50	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
51	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
52	Playlist Halloween - Mort de Ci-trouille	Prisma Media	Society & Culture	27	Audion	43
53	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
54	Entre chez moi et ailleurs	Maxime Marques	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	53
55	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
56	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
57	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
59	Leurs vestiaires	Coraline Chancibot	Business	17	Acast	79
60	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
61	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
62	Homo swipiens	Homo swipiens	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	53
63	Beyond the Veil - un podcast sur la mort	Virginie Barba	Society & Culture	26	Ausha	78
64	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
65	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
66	Escafandro	Rádio Escafandro	Society & Culture	202	Spotify for Podcasters	38
67	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
68	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
69	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
70	Telephobia - Dieser eine Anruf	ARD	Society & Culture	35	Bayerischer Rundfunk	73
71	Une bataille mais pas la guerre	Making Waves	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	48
72	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
73	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
74	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
75	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
76	impermanent	Léonie Ragot	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
77	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
78	Priscille Podcast	Priscille Podcast	Society & Culture	63	Spotify for Podcasters	37
79	LE DESIGN SUR ÉCOUTE	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	31	Audiomeans	73
80	Les couleurs de la mémoire	jim jaon	Society & Culture	5	Spotify for Podcasters	22
81	KICK RADIO	Ice Americano	Society & Culture	60	Acast	69
82	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
83	Mensch - Geschichten aus dem echten Leben unserer Lieblingspromis	Heiko Behr, Mira Dönges, Acast Creative Studios Germany	Society & Culture	176	Acast	69
84	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
85	Historically Black	APM Reports & The Washington Post	Society & Culture	9	American Public Media	49
86	Confidential	Fanpage.it	Society & Culture	41	Megaphone	53
87	En immersion à l'école des commissaires de police	ENSP Podcasts	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	48
88	The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop	The Washington Post	Society & Culture	10	The Washington Post	63
89	L'Art Diplomatique	L'art Diplomatique	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	58
90	Prato Cheio	O Joio e O Trigo	Society & Culture	149	Simplecast	63
91	OBSESSED - Döner Papers	ARD	Society & Culture	11	Bayerischer Rundfunk	59
92	À l' écoute, le podcast de la Fondation Casip-Cojasor	Fondation Casip-Cojasor	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	48
93	Désenchantées	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	53
94	El Guerrillero	Almudena Ariza y Yes We Cast	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	84
95	Tras los límites 2.0	Tras los límites	Society & Culture	2	iVoox	48
96	Transgender Warriors	JOY 94.9 - LGBTI, LGBTIQA+, LGBTQIA+, LGBT, LGBTQ, LGB, Gay, Lesbian, Trans, Intersex, Queer Podcasts for all our Rainbow Communities	Society & Culture	29	Unknown	43
97	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
98	NUREA Podcast 🎙️	Nora & Guillaume	Society & Culture	1	Buzzsprout	62
99	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
100	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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