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 09 Jun 2026

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06/09/2026

Average data

Episodes: 136

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:40:15

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. INA (3 shows)

3. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

4. Making Waves (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Audiomeans (15 shows)

3. Ausha (9 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	218	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
5	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
6	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
7	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	555	Audion	58
8	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
9	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
10	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
11	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
12	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	46	Audiomeans	73
13	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
14	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
15	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
16	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
17	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
18	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
19	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
20	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
21	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1016	Simplecast	38
22	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	300	Spotify for Podcasters	32
23	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
24	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
25	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
26	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
27	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
28	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
29	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
30	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
31	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	22	Acast	68
32	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	174	Spotify for Podcasters	28
33	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
34	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
35	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
36	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	90	Acast	69
37	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
38	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
39	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
40	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
41	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	104	BBC	53
42	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
43	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
44	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	22	BBC	63
45	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
48	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
49	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
50	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
51	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
52	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	33	Ausha	79
53	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
54	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
55	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
56	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
57	Les enfants nés du viol	Maude Petel-Légaré	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	79
58	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
59	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	445	Megaphone	32
60	Ce qui nous lie	Domitille Tassin	Society & Culture	36	Ausha	63
61	Gendarmerie Nationale, 300 Nuances de bleu	Gendarmerie Podcast	Society & Culture	2	Ausha	48
62	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
63	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
64	Tribadour, la bande originale des vies lesbiennes	Adeline LMX	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	48
65	Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage \| Global Issues \| Current Affairs	Secrets & Spies	Society & Culture	354	Simplecast	78
66	Les Vrais Souverains	Arnaud Montebourg	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	74
67	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
69	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
70	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
71	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
72	Histoires lesbiennes	Marine GILIS	Society & Culture	11	Acast	79
73	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	53
74	Faire des sciences avec Star Wars Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
76	TIJ (The Inner Journey)	Amel	Education	232	Ausha	43
77	Ma Vie en Rose	Ma Vie en Rose - Radio Clapas	Society & Culture	86	Audiomeans	53
78	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
79	Des Brouettes et des Ailes	blandinedest	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	62
80	The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior	RNZ	Society & Culture	7	Acast	58
81	Bühneneingang - Kultur von innen	Fabian Burstein	Society & Culture	120	Simplecast	58
82	How to Grab Free Audiobook in Fiction, Contemporary	Full Audiobook	Society & Culture	2000	Unknown	53
83	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	200	BBC	38
84	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	381	Spreaker	84
85	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
86	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
87	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
88	NRC Uitgelicht: Koekoekskind	NRC	Society & Culture	30	ART19	83
89	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69
90	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
91	1940, Winston devient Churchill	Creation Collective / Binge Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	48
92	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
93	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	272	Spreaker	69
94	INSIDE CumEx – Jagd auf die Steuer-Mafia	ARD	Society & Culture	9	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	42
95	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
96	Podme Dokumentär	Podme	Society & Culture	12	Podspace	53
97	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	158	Acast	73
98	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
99	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
100	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79

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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