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 Mar 2026

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03/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 98

Frequency: every 38 days

Duration: 00:33:48

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Europe 1 (2 shows)

5. Al Jazeera Network (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Audiomeans (15 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

4. Ausha (8 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	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
6	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
9	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
10	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
12	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
15	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
16	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
17	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
18	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
19	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
20	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
21	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
22	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
23	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
25	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
26	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
27	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
28	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
29	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
30	Kintsugi, l'histoire de ma reconstruction	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	10	Audion	83
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
33	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
34	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
35	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
36	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
37	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
38	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
39	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
40	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
41	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
42	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
43	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
44	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
45	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
46	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
47	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
48	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	77	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
50	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
51	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
52	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
53	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	115	Spreaker	84
54	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
55	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	31	BBC	58
56	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
57	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
58	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
59	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
60	Gueules Cassées	Audio Pictura	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	84
61	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
62	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
63	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
64	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
65	Les gens qui restent	Slate.fr Podcasts	Society & Culture	8	Audion	69
66	E poi il silenzio - Il disastro di Rigopiano	Pablo Trincia – Sky Original by Chora Media	Society & Culture	10	Megaphone	48
68	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
70	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
71	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
72	The Sound: Mystery of Havana Syndrome	Brazen	Society & Culture	21	PRX	79
73	The Shrink Next Door	Audible \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	3	ART19	63
74	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
75	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
76	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
77	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
78	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
79	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
80	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
81	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
82	CAMBIUM, le podcast de l'agroforesterie	Association Française d'Agroforesterie	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
83	Violences policières : la répression des migrations	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	1	Acast	53
84	OQTF : l'outil d'une politique d'expulsion française	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	4	Acast	53
85	Quartiers d'Asie	PolAsie	Society & Culture	4	Audiomeans	84
86	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
87	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
88	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
89	Le bon angle	Manon Marques	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	69
90	À VIF ! Créer pour Résister	Noa Levy-Baron, Agathe Redier, Marie Wallaert	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	38
91	De voix en voies	OPCO Santé	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
92	Billie Eilish - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	76	Megaphone	63
93	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
94	Plein La Vue	Plein La Vue	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	43
95	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
96	Mentes Pesquisadoras - Têtes Chercheuses	AFluência	Society & Culture	12	Transistor	63
97	Коли Він Пішов	TWR UA	Society & Culture	18	Buzzsprout	79
98	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
99	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
100	Georges Brassens... j’ai rendez-vous avec Vous	Europe 1	Society & Culture	12	Audiomeans	43

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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