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 06 Jan 2026

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01/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 128

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:35:13

Top 5 authors

1. RTL (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

3. Louie Media (4 shows)

4. INA (2 shows)

5. Europe 1 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (21 shows)

2. Acast (20 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

4. Ausha (10 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	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
5	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
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	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
11	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
12	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
13	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
14	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
15	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
16	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
17	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
18	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
19	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
22	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
23	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
24	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
25	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
26	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
27	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
28	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
29	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
30	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
33	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
34	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
35	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
36	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
37	À la recherche du fromage disparu Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
38	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
39	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
40	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
41	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
42	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
43	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
44	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
45	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
46	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
48	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
49	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
50	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	38
51	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
52	Là où les voix résonnent : échos de centres de rétention administrative	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Acast	63
53	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
54	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
55	EcoloThème	Plume, Daphnée et O2 l'écolo	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	58
56	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
57	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
58	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
59	1940, Winston devient Churchill	Creation Collective / Binge Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	48
60	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
61	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
62	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
63	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
64	Форма на вырост	Новая вкладка	Society & Culture	4	Podbean	79
65	Les Grands Entretiens d'Europe 1	Europe 1	Society & Culture	86	Audiomeans	43
66	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
67	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
68	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
69	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
70	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
71	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
72	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
73	Afterres2050	AFTERRES	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	69
74	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
75	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
76	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
77	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
78	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
79	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
80	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
81	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
82	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
83	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	54	PRX	64
84	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
85	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
86	Meurtres et Mystères	Hosnelle	Society & Culture	121	Spotify for Podcasters	63
87	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
88	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
89	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
90	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
91	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
92	Un bled à soi	Institut du monde arabe	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	59
93	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
94	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	486	BBC	28
95	L'art du silence, raconté par Guillaume Canet	Audi France	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	53
96	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
97	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
98	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
99	Lang Déléyé si Servis Kabaré	Béatrice Velin-Cassim et Juliette Pierron-Rauwel	Society & Culture	5	Acast	63
100	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83

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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