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 Apr 2026

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04/10/2026

Average data

Episodes: 106

Frequency: every 29 days

Duration: 00:36:09

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. INA (3 shows)

4. RTL (2 shows)

5. Making Waves (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (19 shows)

2. Ausha (15 shows)

3. Audiomeans (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

5. Megaphone (7 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	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
5	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
6	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
7	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
8	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
9	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
10	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
12	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
13	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
14	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
15	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
16	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
17	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
20	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
21	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
22	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
23	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	79
24	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
25	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
26	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
27	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
28	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
29	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
30	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
31	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
32	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
33	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
34	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
35	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
36	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
37	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
38	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
39	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
40	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
41	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
42	Toute cette bravoure qui était en moi	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	4	Acast	63
43	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
44	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
45	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
46	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
47	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
48	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
49	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
51	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
52	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
53	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
54	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
55	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
56	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
57	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
58	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
59	La familia correcta	El País Audio / WePod	Society & Culture	8	Omny Studio	84
60	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
61	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
62	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
63	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
64	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
65	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
66	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	28
67	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
68	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	199	Megaphone	53
69	CAMBIUM, le podcast de l'agroforesterie	Association Française d'Agroforesterie	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
70	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
71	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
72	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
73	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
74	Insomniaque – Documentaires pour la Nuit	Veridox	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	32
75	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
76	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
77	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Les Chroniques de l'Etrange	Society & Culture	25	Ausha	83
78	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	140	PRX	59
79	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
80	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
81	Billie Eilish - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	76	Megaphone	63
82	Wild Wild Web - Geschichten aus dem Internet	ARD	Society & Culture	44	Bayerischer Rundfunk	68
83	Ab in den Urlaub – Der Crash des Internet-Imperiums Unister	Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk	Society & Culture	10	Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk	38
84	给女孩的商业第一课	闪光少女斯斯	Society & Culture	110	Ximalaya	59
85	Il dipinto più bello del mondo - il podcast su Piero della Francesca	Federico Sconocchia Pisoni	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	42
86	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
87	百百	立石従寛／陳暁夏代	Society & Culture	148	Spotify for Podcasters	33
88	Toutes une montagne	Les Gypaètes Poilues	Society & Culture	3	Ausha	68
89	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
90	Uncovering Roots	Uncovering Roots	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	58
91	PBCast	Journal Paysan Breton	Society & Culture	36	Ausha	79
92	Penser le 9-3	Making Waves et Profession Banlieue	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	63
93	Millie Bobby Brown - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	18	Spreaker	59
94	Au coeur des tiers-lieux : les éclaireurs de la transformation écologique	ANCT Agence-nationale-de-la-cohésion-des-territoires	Society & Culture	9	Ausha	53
95	Hateland	ARD	Society & Culture	15	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	63
96	L'Actuelle	Radio Larzac	Society & Culture	33	Unknown	53
97	FRUGAL	L'Association pour un design soutenable	Society & Culture	63	Audiomeans	63
98	Une bataille mais pas la guerre	Making Waves	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	48
99	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| QCODE	Society & Culture	44	Megaphone	53
100	ICI C'EST BEAU	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	6	Audiomeans	63

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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