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 10 Jan 2026

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01/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 126

Frequency: every 32 days

Duration: 00:31:14

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Audiomeans (18 shows)

3. Ausha (13 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

5. Transistor (4 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	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
4	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
5	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
6	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
8	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
11	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
12	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
15	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
16	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
17	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
18	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
19	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
20	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
21	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
22	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
23	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
24	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
25	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
26	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
27	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
28	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
29	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
30	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
31	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
32	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
33	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
34	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
35	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
36	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
37	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
38	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
39	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
40	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
41	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
42	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
43	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
44	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	19	Ausha	53
45	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
46	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
48	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
49	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
50	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
51	LE DESIGN SUR ÉCOUTE	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	31	Audiomeans	73
52	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
53	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
54	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
55	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
56	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
57	INSPIRANT	Guillaume Descave	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	38
59	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
60	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	377	Audioboom	62
61	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
62	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
63	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
64	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1187	Acast	59
65	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
66	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
67	À la recherche du fromage disparu Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
68	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
69	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
70	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
71	Le Poids du Cloud	Victor Galarreta	Society & Culture	9	Spreaker	69
72	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
73	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
74	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
75	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
76	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
77	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
78	人間動物園：厭世姬外出取材	厭世姬＆邊角料	Society & Culture	208	Firstory	43
80	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
81	La Buissonnière	Clap Audio	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	89
82	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
83	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
84	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
85	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
86	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
87	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
88	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
89	Passeurs de Reggae	Radio Grenouille	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	69
90	VIE DE QUINQUA Le Podcast	VIEDEQUINQUA	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	63
91	Da fiskene forsvandt - en lydfortælling om et ørkengjort hav, forliste kystsamfund, torskeøjne, håb og vilde sæler	Molbokommunen	Society & Culture	4	Buzzsprout	48
92	Мова 404	Аліна Нагорная	Society & Culture	128	Unknown	64
93	La Mallette verte	Perrine Sokal	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	74
94	Kerning Cultures	Kerning Cultures Network	Society & Culture	146	Acast	59
95	101 Visages	Webistan & Les Ateliers Reza	Society & Culture	16	Ausha	63
96	C'est sa vie - podcast franco-allemand	OFAJ - DFJW	Society & Culture	4	Spreaker	43
97	Blast - La première Gilet jaune du dernier rond-point	Franck Dépretz, France Timmermans, Baptiste Veilhan	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	49
98	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
99	L'heure de Loire	Vins de Loire	Society & Culture	11	Podcastics	79
100	Am I The Asshole?	Daisy	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	58

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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