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 17 Jan 2026

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01/17/2026

Average data

Episodes: 138

Frequency: every 21 days

Duration: 00:32:19

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Europe 1 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Audiomeans (20 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

4. Ausha (9 shows)

5. Megaphone (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	218	Acast	79
3	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	82	Megaphone	62
5	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
6	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
7	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
8	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
9	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	556	Audion	58
10	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
11	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
12	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
13	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
14	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	107	Acast	73
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
17	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	76	Spotify for Podcasters	22
18	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
19	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
20	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	175	Spotify for Podcasters	28
21	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
22	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	158	Acast	73
23	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
24	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
25	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
26	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
27	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
28	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
29	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
30	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	799	Audiomeans	74
31	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
32	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1016	Simplecast	38
33	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
34	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
35	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
36	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
37	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
39	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	54	Ausha	53
40	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
41	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
42	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	104	BBC	53
43	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
44	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	80	Spotify for Podcasters	43
45	Les sentinelles du vivant	Laure Cormier	Society & Culture	4	Acast	69
46	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
47	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	37	Spotify for Podcasters	38
48	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
49	De Ware Jacob	Dagblad van het Noorden	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	69
50	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	63	Acast	49
51	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
52	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
53	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
54	La vie sans filtre - Les Podcasts Macif	Les Podcasts Macif	Society & Culture	45	Audiomeans	83
55	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
56	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
57	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
58	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
59	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
60	NOUS Malouins - Le podcast des amoureux de Saint-Malo	Brieuc Quil	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	62
61	Le Roi des Monstres	École normale supérieure - PSL	Society & Culture	3	Acast	69
62	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
63	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
64	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	468	Acast	74
65	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
66	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
67	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
68	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	49
69	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
70	Puerto Rico, la isla del encanto	Heïdi Soupault	Society & Culture	12	Ausha	63
71	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Audiomeans	84
72	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
73	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
74	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
75	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
76	Creepy Shit	Creepy Shit	Society & Culture	73	Audioboom	58
77	Classical Music Happy Hour	WNYC, WQXR	Music	29	Simplecast	63
78	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
79	Les Grands Entretiens d'Europe 1	Europe 1	Society & Culture	86	Audiomeans	43
80	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	93	Megaphone	63
81	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
82	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
84	Top Comment	BBC	News	104	BBC	48
85	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
86	Priscille Podcast	Priscille Podcast	Society & Culture	68	Spotify for Podcasters	37
87	BXL 1001 VIES	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	10	Acast	79
88	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	219	Unknown	43
89	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
90	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
91	DOLLS HOUSE	Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull	Society & Culture	7	Spotify for Podcasters	38
92	Death on the Lot	Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	69
93	Attentats du 13 novembre 2015 : les héros du chaos	RMC Découverte	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	63
94	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
95	MISTERIO OVNI TERROR Y PARANORMAL	MISTERIO OVNI Y PARANORMAL	Society & Culture	1441	iVoox	48
96	(De eso no se habla)	(De eso no se habla)	Society & Culture	41	PRX	69
97	Elizabeth II	RTL	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	59
98	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
99	Homo swipiens	Homo swipiens	Society & Culture	30	Spotify for Podcasters	53
100	Histoires d'en haut	Le Dauphiné Libéré	Society & Culture	61	Acast	59

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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