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 30 May 2026

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05/30/2026

Average data

Episodes: 100

Frequency: every 27 days

Duration: 00:34:57

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. INA (3 shows)

3. RTBF (3 shows)

4. Making Waves (2 shows)

5. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (20 shows)

2. Audiomeans (19 shows)

3. Ausha (9 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Transistor (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	134	N/A	N/A
2	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	208	Acast	79
3	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
4	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
5	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
6	Rôles Modèles	ELLE	Society & Culture	15	Acast	90
7	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
8	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	368	Audion	58
9	Inspirants	François-Xavier Ménage, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	8	Audiomeans	54
10	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
11	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
12	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
13	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
14	JAMAIS DIT ! le podcast d'Isabelle Farrugia	Isabelle Farrugia	Society & Culture	18	Acast	68
15	Gilles Galloux	Gilles Galloux	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
18	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
19	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
20	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
21	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
22	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
23	ET PAN !	ET PAN !	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	64
24	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
25	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
26	Lignes de crêtes	Making Waves	Society & Culture	3	Transistor	59
27	OnlyFantasy	Audible	Society & Culture	29	ART19	69
28	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	23	Acast	84
29	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
30	Espace Documentaire	Espace Documentaire	Society & Culture	949	Spreaker	64
31	Thread Horreur By Delkor	Delkor	Society & Culture	287	Spotify for Podcasters	32
32	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
33	Ils dévoraient la ville en imagination (Maroc, 1965 - 1973)	INA	Society & Culture	7	Octopus	59
34	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
35	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
36	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
37	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
38	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
39	Empire Stories	Entrepreneur Mindset	Society & Culture	60	Ausha	53
40	Shame on you	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	74
41	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	1005	Simplecast	38
42	En quête de l’étrange	Pia Brunner	Society & Culture	77	Spotify for Podcasters	38
43	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
44	VYRAJE	Sarah Bardin	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	79
45	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
46	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
47	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
48	The Gift	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	23	BBC	59
49	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
50	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
51	Chroniques du Grand Domaine	Lili Sohn et Théo Boulenger	Society & Culture	5	Acast	69
52	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
53	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	120	Acast	73
54	Nos chaînons invisibles	Elson	Society & Culture	15	Podcastics	74
55	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
56	F - Chroniques d'un féminisme ordinaire Feed not publicly shared by the creator	INA	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
57	Racines & Récits	UPro-G	Society & Culture	28	Podcastics	69
58	Avenirs par AirZen	AirZen Radio	Society & Culture	40	Audiomeans	64
59	La Fille sur le canapé	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	59
60	Georges Brassens... j’ai rendez-vous avec Vous	Europe 1	Society & Culture	12	Audiomeans	43
61	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
62	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
63	UNESCO - The WAVE	UNESCO	Society & Culture	18	Ausha	94
64	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
66	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	79
67	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
68	Les grandes enquêtes	Binge Audio	Society & Culture	38	Audiomeans	73
69	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
70	L'Envers de la case	Groupe Delcourt	Society & Culture	13	Ausha	69
71	Prisons: hors les mythes	BFMTV	Society & Culture	4	Simplecast	69
72	Un Periódico de Ayer	La No Ficción	Society & Culture	47	Spotify for Podcasters	49
73	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	20	ART19	73
74	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	33	Podcastics	63
75	Delirios de España. Las frivolidades que cambiaron un país	Podium Podcast	Society & Culture	44	Omny Studio	63
76	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	438	Acast	74
77	pepe&chema podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	204	Megaphone	32
78	Unearthed - The need for seeds, with Cate Blanchett	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	Society & Culture	28	Omny Studio	83
79	Création Documentaire	Radio Grenouille	Society & Culture	24	Transistor	63
80	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
81	Les Garde-Fous	Les Garde-Fous	Society & Culture	55	Ausha	74
82	Un voyage sur les ondes pour toustes	Parce Qu'autant Podcaster	Documentary	1	N/A	N/A
83	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
84	LE DESIGN SUR ÉCOUTE	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	31	Audiomeans	73
85	Dark Matters – Geheimnisse der Geheimdienste	SWR3, rbb24 Inforadio, Eva-Maria Lemke	Society & Culture	101	Unknown	48
86	ARD Radiofeature	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	Society & Culture	111	Westdeutscher Rundfunk	38
87	Par le petit bout du mythe	Le prof de latin-grec	Society & Culture	40	Ausha	69
88	Passeuses de mémoires	Charlayne Vilmer	Society & Culture	2	Acast	79
89	夜航船	洛不知秋	Society & Culture	24	Ximalaya	53
90	Katt Williams - Biography Flash	Inception Point AI	Documentary	3	N/A	N/A
91	Unhoused - voices from the threshold	Bega Valley Shire Library	Documentary	7	N/A	N/A
92	The True Crime Of...	LegalEagle	Society & Culture	4	ART19	53
93	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
94	La Relève	Mediapart	Society & Culture	5	Audiomeans	49
95	De Vondeling	AT5	Society & Culture	7	Unknown	53
96	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
97	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
98	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
99	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	90	Acast	52
100	Focus: Adults in the Room	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	17	Omny Studio	68

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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