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 Jun 2026

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06/12/2026

Average data

Episodes: 157

Frequency: every 41 days

Duration: 00:40:23

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. BFMTV (3 shows)

5. Audible (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Audiomeans (14 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

4. Ausha (7 shows)

5. Simplecast (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
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	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
8	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
9	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
11	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
12	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
13	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
14	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
15	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
16	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
17	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
18	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
19	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
20	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
21	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
22	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
23	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
24	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
25	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
26	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
27	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
28	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
29	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
30	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
31	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
32	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
33	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
34	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
35	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
36	Enquête d'avenir	Ariane Cronel	Society & Culture	36	Spotify for Podcasters	73
37	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
38	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
39	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
40	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
41	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
42	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	155	Acast	43
43	Les Éclaircies	Marine Lucas	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	38
44	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
45	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
46	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
47	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
48	(De eso no se habla)	(De eso no se habla)	Society & Culture	41	PRX	69
49	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
50	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
51	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	53	Ausha	53
52	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
53	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
54	Expertes à la Une	Christelle Chiroux, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	64
55	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
56	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
57	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
58	Ligne Rouge	BFMTV	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	53
59	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
60	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
61	Tribadour, la bande originale des vies lesbiennes	Adeline LMX	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	48
62	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
63	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
64	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
65	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
67	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
68	Canal Café Brasil	Luciano Pires & Café Brasil Editorial Ltda	Society & Culture	2481	Omny Studio	43
69	Les mémoires effacées	L'ambre fin	Society & Culture	3	Vodio	84
70	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
71	Les Abysses de la BIS	RSU Radio Sorbonne Université	Society & Culture	7	Acast	73
72	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	28
73	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
74	Where the River Took Us	Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	10	Spreaker	64
75	How to Grab Free Audiobook in Fiction, Contemporary	Full Audiobook	Society & Culture	2000	Unknown	53
76	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
77	Čestmír Strakatý	Čestmír Strakatý	Society & Culture	448	Spotify for Podcasters	38
78	La vie sans filtre - Les Podcasts Macif	Les Podcasts Macif	Society & Culture	40	Audiomeans	83
79	File on 4 Investigates	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	510	BBC	28
81	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
82	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
83	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
84	Deep Doku	Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg	Society & Culture	130	Unknown	48
85	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
86	Kim Jong-un - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	64	Megaphone	63
87	L'épopée des Infâmes	Maiwenn	Society & Culture	5	Buzzsprout	68
88	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
89	Femin Tokyo Podcast	Samantha Lassaux	Society & Culture	22	Acast	79
90	Queer Qissa podcast	Lokesh Saini	Society & Culture	9	Spotify for Podcasters	48
91	La ville devant soi	Making Waves	Society & Culture	5	Transistor	59
92	Les Voix de la Ville	Collectif LES VOIX DE LA VILLE	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
93	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
94	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
95	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	119	Simplecast	53
96	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
97	The Diamond King \| Telegraph Investigates	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	52	Acast	78
98	Le Fumoir	Sylvain Di Cristo alias La Pieuvre	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
100	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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