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 20 Jan 2026

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01/20/2026

Average data

Episodes: 140

Frequency: every 22 days

Duration: 00:32:19

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTL (4 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. RTBF (3 shows)

5. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Audiomeans (21 shows)

2. Acast (20 shows)

3. Ausha (10 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. BBC (7 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	213	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	70	Spotify for Podcasters	28
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
5	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	77	Megaphone	62
6	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	53	Audiomeans	73
8	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
9	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
10	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
11	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
12	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	373	Audion	58
13	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
14	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	102	Acast	73
15	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
16	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
17	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
18	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
19	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
20	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	32	Simplecast	49
21	Careless \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	121	Acast	73
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	22	RSS.com	52
23	DOLLS HOUSE	Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	59
24	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	407	Megaphone	63
25	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
26	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	164	Spotify for Podcasters	28
27	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
28	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	29	Spotify for Podcasters	38
29	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
30	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
31	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	939	Simplecast	38
32	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
33	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
34	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
35	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
36	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
37	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
38	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	19	Acast	68
39	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
40	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	773	Audiomeans	74
41	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
42	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
43	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
44	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
45	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
46	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
47	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
48	Nos Voix Ordinaires	Nos Voix Ordinaires	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	53
49	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	442	Acast	74
50	Blast - Adolescence	Vincent Decque, Loulou Robert	Society & Culture	8	Transistor	54
51	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	518	Audiomeans	84
52	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
53	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
54	Seriously...	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	482	BBC	28
55	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
56	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
57	Atonement: The John Paulk Story	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	7	Omny Studio	58
58	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
59	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
60	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	92	Megaphone	63
61	Expertes à la Une	Christelle Chiroux, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	64
62	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
63	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
64	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
65	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
66	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
67	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Audiomeans	84
68	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	34	Podcastics	63
70	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	78	Spotify for Podcasters	38
71	Septentrion	Stéphane Dugast	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	73
72	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
73	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
74	Seelenfänger	Bayerischer Rundfunk	Society & Culture	62	Bayerischer Rundfunk	68
75	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	351	ART19	68
76	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
77	De Ware Jacob	Dagblad van het Noorden	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	69
78	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	189	Ximalaya	53
79	De Kunst van het Verdwijnen	VRT MAX	True Crime	17	Simplecast	73
81	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	411	BBC	28
82	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	434	Megaphone	32
83	Être un homme	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	35	Acast	89
84	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
85	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
86	Mécréantes	Léane Alestra	Society & Culture	14	Buzzsprout	52
87	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
88	Une fausse couche comme les autres	majelan	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	38
89	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
90	Créateurs avec Maxence Tison	Maxence Tison	Society & Culture	18	Spotify for Podcasters	38
91	Les imposteurs	RTL	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	64
92	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
93	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
94	Canal Café Brasil	Luciano Pires & Café Brasil Editorial Ltda	Society & Culture	2481	Omny Studio	43
95	Beyond the Veil - un podcast sur la mort	Virginie Barba	Society & Culture	26	Ausha	78
96	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
97	Détenues	Insider Podcast	Society & Culture	10	Acast	89
98	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
99	Decode - Explore Media	Explore Media	Society & Culture	81	Audion	43
100	Good Green Vibes	Good Green Vibes	Society & Culture	23	Ausha	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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