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 07 Oct 2026

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10/07/2026

Average data

Episodes: 122

Frequency: every 18 days

Duration: 00:33:04

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (5 shows)

2. Louie Media (5 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. RTBF (3 shows)

5. Making Waves (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

4. Ausha (10 shows)

5. BBC (9 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	137	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
5	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	58	Audiomeans	73
7	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
8	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	72	Spotify for Podcasters	28
9	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
10	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	63
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
12	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
13	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
14	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
15	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
16	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	18	Acast	90
17	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	26	Acast	79
18	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	22
21	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	36	Octopus	59
22	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
23	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
24	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
25	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
26	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
27	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	170	Spotify for Podcasters	28
28	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
29	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
30	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
31	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	970	Spreaker	64
32	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	520	Audiomeans	84
33	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
34	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	298	Spotify for Podcasters	32
35	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	24	Acast	58
36	Françoise Combes, les grands mystères de l'espace	RTL	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	48
37	Empreinte Criminelle	Empreinte criminelle	Society & Culture	74	Spotify for Podcasters	28
38	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	89
39	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	44	Audiomeans	73
40	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	120	BBC	38
41	Le meilleur des Docus	La référence des grands documentaires	Society & Culture	63	Acast	53
42	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
43	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
44	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
45	Nos chaînons invisibles	Elson	Society & Culture	15	Podcastics	74
46	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
47	SAS: The Shadow War	The Independent / Aurra Studios	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
48	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	126	Simplecast	53
49	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	35	Simplecast	69
50	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	415	BBC	28
51	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
52	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
53	The Birth Keepers	The Guardian	Society & Culture	6	Acast	58
54	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
55	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
56	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
57	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
58	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	26	American Public Media	62
59	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	311	Megaphone	42
60	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
61	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
62	Tellement Cliché	Aurore Pautet	Society & Culture	5	Podcastics	69
63	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
64	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
65	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
66	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
67	Carnet de Voyage	Carnet de Voyage	Society & Culture	64	Spotify for Podcasters	28
68	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
69	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
70	Un studio sur l'Atlantique \| A Studio On The Atlantic	ArTec \| Frictions \| R-22 Tout Monde	Society & Culture	34	Ausha	63
71	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	36	Podcastics	63
72	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
73	Swingers	BBC Radio Wales	Society & Culture	7	BBC	43
74	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	68
75	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	268	WideOrbit	48
76	Les Désaxé•es	Les Désaxé•es	Society & Culture	6	Vodio	79
77	Ma langue maternelle n'est pas la langue de ma mère	Alice MAGDELAINE	Society & Culture	14	Acast	79
78	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
79	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
80	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	73
81	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
82	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
83	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
84	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	516	BBC	28
85	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	47	Ausha	38
86	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	63
87	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
88	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	699	BBC	28
89	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	79
90	כאן דוקו - ההסכת Kan Docs - The Podcast	גואל פינטו	Society & Culture	58	Omny Studio	27
91	Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement \| Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation	Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan	Society & Culture	375	Blubrry Podcasting	43
92	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
93	Women of the Seas	Le podcast des aventurières de la Mer	Society & Culture	20	Acast	74
94	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	79	Spotify for Podcasters	38
95	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	28
96	Au coeur des tiers-lieux : les éclaireurs de la transformation écologique	ANCT Agence-nationale-de-la-cohésion-des-territoires	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	53
97	Pig Iron	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	12	Acast	74
98	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
99	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
100	VIVANTES	AFED 92	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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