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 25 Mar 2026

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03/25/2026

Average data

Episodes: 108

Frequency: every 30 days

Duration: 00:30:21

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. Paradiso Media (2 shows)

4. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

5. The Observer (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Audiomeans (16 shows)

3. Ausha (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (9 shows)

5. Transistor (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
4	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	19	Acast	90
5	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	73	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	59	Audiomeans	73
8	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
9	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	38	Octopus	59
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
11	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	10	Transistor	53
12	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	26	Acast	38
13	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
14	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
15	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
16	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
17	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	106	Acast	73
18	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
19	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
20	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
21	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
22	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	53
23	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
24	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
25	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	21	Acast	68
26	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	26	Spotify for Podcasters	22
27	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
28	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
29	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
30	De voix en voies	OPCO Santé	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
31	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
32	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
33	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	975	Spreaker	64
34	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
35	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
36	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	173	Spotify for Podcasters	28
37	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	37	Simplecast	69
38	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
39	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	True Crime	27	Acast	79
40	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
41	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
42	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	73
43	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	37	Podcastics	63
44	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
45	Complètement Toqués \| Le podcast de la gastronomie, les grands chefs de la région, leurs parcours, leurs engagements.	LYON 1ère	Society & Culture	206	Ausha	38
46	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
47	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	31	Spotify for Podcasters	38
48	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
49	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	80	Spotify for Podcasters	43
50	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
51	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
52	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
53	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
54	FRICTIONS, raconter le monde par l'intime	Frictions	Society & Culture	144	Ausha	58
55	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	524	Audiomeans	84
56	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
57	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
58	Tout est affaires	Outre-mer la 1ère	Society & Culture	9	Octopus	43
59	Un quart d'heure à Paris	Ville de Paris	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	79
60	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
61	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
62	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
63	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
64	Police, le podcast	Police nationale	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	83
66	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
67	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
68	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
69	Chroniques du Grand Domaine	Lili Sohn et Théo Boulenger	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
70	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	63	Acast	49
71	PRIDE AND PREDATOR	Julie Bindel	Society & Culture	6	Substack	79
72	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
73	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
74	Du Pin sur la Planche - à la découverte de la forêt et du bois	Delphine Gardin	Society & Culture	18	Ausha	58
75	Sauce Américaine	Maxime Cuvillier	Society & Culture	4	Acast	74
76	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
77	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
78	Profile	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	700	BBC	28
79	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Audiomeans	84
80	Learn From Altitude	Globule Radio / Mountain Path	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	54
81	Aveyronnais et engagés	SDIS de l'Aveyron	Society & Culture	11	Podcastics	94
82	La saga Netflix	BFM Business	Society & Culture	5	Simplecast	53
83	À Travers La Serrure \| Podcast Paranormal	À Travers La Serrure	Society & Culture	6	Spotify for Podcasters	32
84	Les voix d'Euphonia	Radio Grenouille	Society & Culture	16	Transistor	53
85	L'histoire de la Grande Guerre	Musée de la Grande Guerre	Society & Culture	14	Audiomeans	53
86	Kerning Cultures	Kerning Cultures Network	Society & Culture	146	Acast	59
87	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Society & Culture	93	Megaphone	63
88	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
89	La mort, tout un art !	Lucile Milliard	Society & Culture	21	podCloud	73
90	Transformer le travail	Anact	Society & Culture	17	Audiomeans	94
91	Campagnes urbaines	Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	63
92	Praia dos Ossos	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	16	Acast	59
93	La Voix est Libre...et curieuse !	Katia Clot-Bouferrache	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
94	Turbulences : traverser les troubles anxieux	Julien Morissette (Transistor Média)	Society & Culture	1	Transistor	73
95	Par ici le futur !	La Région Occitanie	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	59
96	All That I Have Met	Meredith Ogilvie-Thompson	Society & Culture	2	Buzzsprout	48
97	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
98	Meurtres et Mystères	Hosnelle	Society & Culture	121	Spotify for Podcasters	63
99	Signal Hill	Signal Hill	Society & Culture	34	Buzzsprout	62
100	Dans mon étude	Chambre des notaires de la Gironde	Society & Culture	9	Podcastics	49

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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