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 16 Apr 2026

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04/16/2026

Average data

Episodes: 106

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:31:27

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. RTBF (2 shows)

4. INA (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (22 shows)

2. Ausha (13 shows)

3. Audiomeans (12 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

5. Podcastics (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	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
4	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
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	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
8	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
9	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
10	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
11	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
12	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
15	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
16	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
17	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
18	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
19	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
20	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
21	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
22	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
23	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
24	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
25	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
26	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
27	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
28	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
29	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
30	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
31	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
32	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
33	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
34	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
35	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
36	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
37	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
38	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
39	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
40	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
41	Cartels & Cie	Autorité de la concurrence	Society & Culture	17	Ausha	79
42	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
43	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68
44	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
45	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
46	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	526	ART19	68
47	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
48	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
49	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
50	Inheritance: Samsung	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	11	BBC	63
51	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
52	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
53	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
54	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
55	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
56	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	63	Spreaker	43
57	ROC Taiwan : la singularité d'une île	Muriel Couton / Virginie Jortay	Society & Culture	10	Acast	79
58	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
59	Les Vrais Souverains	Arnaud Montebourg	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	74
60	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
61	Toutes une montagne	Les Gypaètes Poilues	Society & Culture	3	Ausha	68
62	Grossophobia	PaulineCD	Society & Culture	35	Podcastics	69
63	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
64	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
65	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
66	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
67	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
69	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
70	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
72	Suivez le guide	Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	59
73	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	187	PRX	79
74	L'Odyssée de James Joyce	Laura El Makki & David Federmann	Society & Culture	6	Acast	74
75	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
76	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
77	De Vondeling	AT5	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
78	Le Monde Vu De ...	ICL - Faculté Libre de Droit	Society & Culture	42	Acast	53
79	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	410	BBC	28
80	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	23	American Public Media	62
81	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
82	The Ugandan Boy Talk Show	Bonny Kibuuka	Society & Culture	311	Spotify for Podcasters	38
83	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
84	Non-Binaires	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	9	Acast	69
85	Qui m'aime me suive !	Catherine Demangeot	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	63
86	KICK RADIO	Ice Americano	Society & Culture	60	Acast	69
87	Our Lives in the North	RTÉ Radio 1	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	43
88	Une fausse couche comme les autres	majelan	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	38
89	On podcast پادکست آن	mersen	Society & Culture	53	Simplecast	52
90	Elon's Spies	Tortoise Media	News	5	Acast	79
91	Gueules Cassées	Audio Pictura	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	84
92	Justin Bieber - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	168	Spreaker	59
93	Super Pistache	Super pistache	Society & Culture	13	Podcastics	74
94	Dans mon étude	Chambre des notaires de la Gironde	Society & Culture	9	Podcastics	49
95	Catastrophe de Fukushima	Carla Duperray	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	33
96	Les Hommes et le Féminisme	Constance Lacorne I Agence Mobu	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	84
97	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
98	вДудь	vDud	Society & Culture	16	Spotify for Podcasters	33
99	La Voix des Oublié.e.s	Romain Rossard et Agathe Gallo du Média Quartier Libre	Society & Culture	12	Spotify for Podcasters	38
100	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83

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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