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 19 Oct 2026

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10/19/2026

Average data

Episodes: 119

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:34:44

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (5 shows)

2. RTL (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. Making Waves (2 shows)

5. RTBF (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. Spotify for Podcasters (15 shows)

3. Audiomeans (15 shows)

4. Ausha (8 shows)

5. BBC (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	138	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
5	Les Mystères des lieux (externe) Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Culture	Documentary	29	N/A	N/A
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	58	Audiomeans	73
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	80	Megaphone	62
8	Ce qui se dit la nuit	Julie Vigneron	Society & Culture	15	Ausha	63
9	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	72	Spotify for Podcasters	28
10	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	25	Spotify for Podcasters	22
11	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
12	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
13	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
14	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	383	Audion	58
15	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
16	Françoise Combes, les grands mystères de l'espace	RTL	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	48
17	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	37	Octopus	59
18	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	104	Acast	73
19	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
20	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	18	Acast	90
21	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	44	Audiomeans	73
22	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
23	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
24	WIDE SPIRIT, le podcast qui vous donne la parole sur vos expériences inexpliquées	Emmanuelle Chaumont Rey	Society & Culture	7	Acast	58
25	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
26	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	298	Spotify for Podcasters	32
27	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
28	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
29	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
30	Serial Mytho : un mythomane raconté par ses ex. Une histoire vraie, au micro de Mathieu Palain	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	73
31	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	171	Spotify for Podcasters	28
32	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
33	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
34	L'art de l'attention	Fanny Auger	Society & Culture	24	Ausha	89
35	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	35	Simplecast	69
36	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	24	Acast	58
37	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	371	Omny Studio	73
38	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
39	Réel média	Réel média	Society & Culture	8	Acast	43
40	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	53	Megaphone	48
41	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	943	Simplecast	38
42	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	121	BBC	38
43	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
44	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	101	Acast	79
45	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
46	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	971	Spreaker	64
47	Champs Queers	Elodie Potente	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	48
48	Les icebergs ÉPOUVANTABLES de Creepy Machine	Creepy Machine	Society & Culture	22	Spotify for Podcasters	32
49	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
50	Empreinte Criminelle	Empreinte criminelle	Society & Culture	74	Spotify for Podcasters	28
51	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
52	Better in Person with Stephen Dubner	Freakonomics Radio	Society & Culture	11	Simplecast	62
53	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
54	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
55	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
56	Latitudes Pyrénées	Anne-Sophie Estruch	Society & Culture	54	Ausha	53
57	Otherworld	Otherworld	Society & Culture	268	WideOrbit	48
58	Paper Trail	ProPublica	Society & Culture	15	PRX	69
59	Reaching Out	Futuro Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
60	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
61	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
62	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
63	Un bled à soi	Institut du monde arabe	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	59
64	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
65	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	449	Acast	74
66	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	441	Megaphone	32
67	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	56	PRX	64
68	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
69	10 Mujeres	Wondery \| Dudas Media	Society & Culture	11	ART19	89
70	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	13	Acast	69
71	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
72	Les Éclaircies	Marine Lucas	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	48
73	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
74	À pas de troupeau	Société d'Économie Alpestre de Savoie (SEA 73)	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	58
75	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	80	Spotify for Podcasters	43
76	Le Monde en Cartes	Le Monde en Cartes	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	28
77	Les IDEstructibles - un podcast des étudiants en sciences infirmières de l'IFSI de Blois	IFSI Blois	Society & Culture	10	Spotify for Podcasters	42
78	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
79	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
80	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	210	Megaphone	32
81	Afterres2050	AFTERRES	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	69
82	Territoires en résistance	Terres de luttes	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	17
83	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
84	Transformer le travail	Anact	Society & Culture	17	Audiomeans	94
85	Escafandro	Rádio Escafandro	Society & Culture	212	Spotify for Podcasters	38
86	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
87	Une épopée : Victor Hugo	Valentin Lavoillotte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	59
88	Réparer les violences	La Maison des femmes	Society & Culture	7	Acast	84
89	Problèmes de riches	majelan	Society & Culture	18	Audiomeans	53
90	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
91	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
92	Les Désaxé•es	Les Désaxé•es	Society & Culture	6	Vodio	79
93	De Ware Jacob	Dagblad van het Noorden	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	69
94	Grand Large	Radio Classique	Society & Culture	180	Audiomeans	38
95	Intime & Politique	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	69
96	Louis的全英语睡前阅读	Lou_Z	Society & Culture	15	Ximalaya	43
97	Contact humain	Olivier Uguen	Society & Culture	8	Acast	79
98	The CityInMotion Podcast	Philip Bell	Society & Culture	22	Squarespace	52
99	Yeti	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	14	BBC	49
100	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Phantoms and Everything Weird	Society & Culture	33	Spotify for Podcasters	22

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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