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 27 Apr 2026

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04/27/2026

Average data

Episodes: 129

Frequency: every 33 days

Duration: 00:42:10

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. BBC Radio 4 (3 shows)

4. Al Jazeera Network (2 shows)

5. BFMTV (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (24 shows)

2. Audiomeans (13 shows)

3. Spotify for Podcasters (11 shows)

4. Ausha (9 shows)

5. Spreaker (5 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	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
6	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
7	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
8	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
9	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
10	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
11	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
12	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
13	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	367	Audion	58
14	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
15	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
16	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
17	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
18	KIKI	Jeannette Boulanger	Society & Culture	5	Ausha	69
19	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
20	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
21	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
22	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
23	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
24	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
25	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
26	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
27	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
28	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
29	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
30	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
31	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
32	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
33	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
34	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
35	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
36	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
37	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
38	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
39	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
40	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
41	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
42	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
43	Écouter le Japon	Podcast-Ecouter-le Japon	Society & Culture	7	Ausha	73
44	NUES	Mathilde-Elind (physiomathildeelind)	Society & Culture	10	Ausha	43
45	L' Ultima Granita	Cronache Sepolte	Society & Culture	8	Spotify for Podcasters	43
46	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
47	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
48	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
49	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
50	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
51	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
52	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
53	Grossophobia	PaulineCD	Society & Culture	35	Podcastics	69
54	Notre Histoire en Avenir - le podcast de la Fondation du patrimoine	FeuilleBlanche	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	68
55	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
57	Campagnes urbaines	Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
58	Experience Audiobook in Fiction, Contemporary	Free Audiobook	Society & Culture	2000	Unknown	53
59	Untold: Opus Dei	Financial Times	Society & Culture	25	Acast	69
60	Al Jazeera	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	64	Spreaker	43
61	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
62	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
63	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	77	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	Al Jazeera English	Al Jazeera Network	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	49
65	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
66	Histoires lesbiennes	Marine GILIS	Society & Culture	11	Acast	79
67	Tym World	Tym	Society & Culture	2	Acast	73
68	Discours & Plaidoiries	Jean-Michel Venden	Society & Culture	24	Acast	79
69	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
70	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	431	Megaphone	32
71	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
72	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
73	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	91	Acast	52
74	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
75	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
76	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
77	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
78	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
79	Crimes et Chatiments Details temporarily unavailable	Crimes et Chatiments	True Crime	30	Spreaker	64
80	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
81	More Muslim	More Muslim	Society & Culture	12	Captivate	73
82	Parlons du Congo	Valéry Ntwali, Clémence Auzary, Emma Belmonte	Society & Culture	11	Spreaker	74
83	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
84	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
85	AUDIENS	UbiDEM	Society & Culture	19	podCloud	69
86	On Assignment	Reuters	Society & Culture	51	Megaphone	53
88	FRICTIONS, raconter le monde par l'intime	Frictions	Society & Culture	143	Ausha	63
89	Blast - La première Gilet jaune du dernier rond-point	Franck Dépretz, France Timmermans, Baptiste Veilhan	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	49
91	Et si on parlait du phénomène OVNI avec Olivier Bernard auteur du livre Les lueurs célestes présentée par Sophie Vitali	Et si on parlait du phénomène OVNI avec Olivier Bernard auteur du livre Les lueurs célestes présentée par Sophie Vitali	Society & Culture	1	Ausha	53
92	Os Segredos da Seita do Yoga	Observador	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	58
93	Escafandro	Rádio Escafandro	Society & Culture	205	Spotify for Podcasters	38
94	Parentèle : en quête d'une famille qui nous ressemble	Maude Boutin St-Pierre	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
95	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
96	Le monde des petits curieux	Cool camping	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	32
97	LE DIVAN	TVONEAR	Society & Culture	74	Audiomeans	69
98	Les Voix de la Ville	Collectif LES VOIX DE LA VILLE	Society & Culture	14	Acast	84
99	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
100	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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