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 Oct 2025

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10/10/2025

Average data

Episodes: 171

Frequency: every 36 days

Duration: 00:38:46

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (4 shows)

4. RTBF (3 shows)

5. Hélène Aguilar (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (18 shows)

2. Acast (18 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (13 shows)

4. Ausha (8 shows)

5. BBC (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	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
10	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
11	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
12	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
13	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
14	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
15	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
16	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
17	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
20	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
21	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
22	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
23	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
24	Homo swipiens	Homo swipiens	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	53
25	Curse of: America’s Next Top Model	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	58
26	Tracés : des récits qui laissent des traces	Florian Morel	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	79
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
28	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
29	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
30	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
32	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
33	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
34	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
35	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
36	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
37	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
38	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
40	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
41	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
42	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
43	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
44	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
45	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
46	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
47	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
48	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
49	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
50	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
51	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
52	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
53	LE DESIGN SUR ÉCOUTE	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	31	Audiomeans	73
54	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
55	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	187	Ximalaya	53
56	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	77	Spotify for Podcasters	38
57	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
58	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
59	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
60	Demi-Sel // Le podcast qui révèle la Bretagne	Région Bretagne	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	79
61	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
62	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
63	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
64	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
65	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
66	Las Raras	Las Raras	Society & Culture	50	Libsyn	89
67	Déclit	Déclit - le podcast	Society & Culture	9	Substack	49
68	Podwan	Erwan Quérissé	Society & Culture	2	Vodio	49
69	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
70	Canal Café Brasil	Luciano Pires & Café Brasil Editorial Ltda	Society & Culture	2481	Omny Studio	43
71	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
72	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
73	Fugues vers leurs histoires	fanny blanc	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
74	A Eleição Mais Louca de Sempre	Observador	Society & Culture	12	Omny Studio	63
75	Les mots sauvages	Anne-Sophie Gouyen	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	53
76	Meurtres et Mystères	Hosnelle	Society & Culture	121	Spotify for Podcasters	63
77	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
78	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
79	Le Grand Large	Le Grand Large	Society & Culture	39	Ausha	53
80	3 Giorni \| La storia di Emanuele Scieri	Cumbre \| Altre Frequenze	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	38
81	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
82	Next Question with Katie Couric	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	432	Omny Studio	63
83	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
84	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	27	Simplecast	63
85	Différences	Audrey Styczen	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	69
86	La Oruga. Un podcast para pensar el presente desde nuestras memorias	www.LaOruga.pe	Society & Culture	57	Spotify for Podcasters	42
87	Experience Audiobook in Fiction, Contemporary	Free Audiobook	Society & Culture	2000	Unknown	53
88	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
89	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
90	Deep Doku	Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg	Society & Culture	130	Unknown	48
91	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
92	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
93	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
94	بودكاست روايتهم	Aware Media	Society & Culture	52	Spotify for Podcasters	63
95	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	41	Omny Studio	53
96	Saving Apollo 13 👨‍🚀	Forensic Engineer Sean Brady — from Brady Heywood	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	69
97	Les Hommes et le Féminisme	Constance Lacorne I Agence Mobu	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	84
98	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	694	BBC	28
99	The Method	Louie Media & Les Glorieuses	Society & Culture	7	Acast	74
100	Translations	Claire Legendre et Transistor Média	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	79

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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