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 12 avr. 2026

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04/12/2026

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Episodes: 110

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:34:01

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. BBC World Service (2 shows)

4. Making Waves (2 shows)

5. Europe 1 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Audiomeans (17 shows)

3. Ausha (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (10 shows)

5. Megaphone (5 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	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
4	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
5	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
8	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
9	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
11	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
12	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
13	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
14	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
15	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
16	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
17	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
18	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
19	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
20	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
21	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
22	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
23	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
24	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
25	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	79
26	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
27	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
28	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
29	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
30	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
31	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
32	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
33	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
34	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
35	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
36	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
37	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
38	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
39	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
40	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
41	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
42	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
43	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
44	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
45	Toute cette bravoure qui était en moi	La Cimade Podcasts	Society & Culture	4	Acast	63
46	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
47	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	68	Triton Digital	63
48	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
49	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
50	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
51	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
53	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
54	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
55	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
56	Основано на реальных событиях	libo/libo	Society & Culture	17	Transistor	79
57	OMG : décodons les biotech	Inf'OGM	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	53
58	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
59	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
60	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
61	Millie Bobby Brown - Biography Flash Details temporarily unavailable	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	18	Spreaker	59
62	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
63	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
64	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
65	Les Voix de la Ville	Collectif LES VOIX DE LA VILLE	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
66	Seelenfänger	Bayerischer Rundfunk	Society & Culture	57	Bayerischer Rundfunk	68
67	Mythomane - Contes et légendes de la Grèce antique	Thomas Hellman	Society & Culture	16	RSS.com	42
68	Les Grands Entretiens d'Europe 1	Europe 1	Society & Culture	86	Audiomeans	43
69	Savoirs & culture - L'Envers du décor Details temporarily unavailable	BLYND	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	73
70	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
71	Les Vrais Souverains	Arnaud Montebourg	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	74
73	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
74	Sur la route de l'horreur	Happy Villains Corp.	Society & Culture	100	Unknown	48
75	Kontrafunk: Tondokument	Kontrafunk	Society & Culture	194	Spreaker	43
76	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
77	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
78	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
79	Métamorphoses urbaines - une enquête sonore des villes à l'âge industriel	Service Patrimoine culturel - Département de l'Isère	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	38
80	Les femmes qui lisent	Laure Gabus	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
81	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
82	Des gens ordinaires	RTBF	Society & Culture	15	Audiomeans	79
83	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	22
85	Subtitle	Quiet Juice	Society & Culture	75	Unknown	49
86	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
87	Une bataille mais pas la guerre	Making Waves	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	48
88	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	349	ART19	68
89	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
90	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
91	En Immersion	Antoine Mazère, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	3	Audiomeans	43
92	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	302	Megaphone	42
93	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
94	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
95	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
96	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
97	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
98	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
99	Σκληρές αλήθειες	LIFO PODCASTS, ΑΡΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΚΙΔΗΣ	Society & Culture	320	Simplecast	53
100	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Audiomeans	84

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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