British Podcast Awards Explained

The British Podcast Awards is an annual awards ceremony intended to celebrate outstanding content within the British podcast scene. The British Podcast Awards is owned and operated by Haymarket Media Group, which also owns several media businesses, including Campaign and PRWeek.

History

The British Podcast Awards was cofounded in 2017 by Matt Hill, managing director of production company Rethink Audio, and Matt Deegan, creative director of audio content firm Folder Media. Deegan and Hill assumed control of the Australian Podcast Awards in 2020^[1] and launched the Irish Podcasts Awards in 2021.^{[2] [3]}

In 2022 Podcast Awards Ltd, the company that runs the British Podcast Awards, was acquired by Haymarket Media Group. The British Podcast Awards will initially sit within Haymarket Business Media’s marketing communications portfolio, with plans to launch more podcast events internationally in 2023.^[4]

PodPod, a publication about the craft and business of podcasting launched the previous year,^[5] was announced as media partner of the British Podcast Awards in 2023, before responsibility for overseeing the awards was transferred to Campaign.^[6]

2017

Chaired by Helen Zaltzman, the judging panel contained more than 50 independent members representing podcast creators, publishers, the press, listeners and audio industry executives. The awards received over 400 entries, spanning genres including TV, film, sport, comedy, true crime, and current affairs. The award ceremony, hosted by Olly Mann, took place in London in April 2017 with presenters including Edith Bowman, Grace Dent, and James Cooper from My Dad Wrote a Porno.^[7]

2017 Nominees and Winners

Winners in bold

AudioBoom Podcast of the Year

• Fathers And Sons - Radio Wolfgang with Mr. Porter

Listeners Choice Award

• Kermode and Mayo's Film Review

Podcast Champion

• Adam Buxton

Best Branded Content supported by Create

• Fathers & Sons - Radio Wolfgang with Mr. Porter
• Glyndebourne podcast - Katherine Godfrey, Whistledown Productions
• Mountain - Christopher Sleight
• The National Trust Gardens Podcast - Fresh Air Production
• Sound Matters - Third Ear/Quincey Sound production for B&O Play

Best Comedy Podcast supported by Podiant

• The Adam Buxton Podcast - Adam Buxton
• Beef & Dairy Network Podcast - Benjamin Partridge
• Do The Right Thing -Fuzz Productions
• Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast - Fuzz Productions
• The Scummy Mummies Podcast - Scummy Mummies

Best Current Affairs Podcast

• The Economist asks - The Economist
• The New Statesman Podcast - New Statesman
• The Inquiry - BBC Radio Current Affairs for BBC World Service
• ShoutOut - ShoutOut Radio
• Weekly Economics Podcast - New Economics Foundation

Best Entertainment Podcast with Maple Street Studios

• The Distraction Pieces Podcast - Distraction Pieces Network
• A Gay & A Non Gay - Gay & A Non Gay
• Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan - AudioBoom
• Probably True - Scott Flashheart Elliott
• Soundtracking with Edith Bowman Edith Bowman

Best Fiction Podcast

• Beef And Dairy Network Podcast - Benjamin Partridge
• Tracks - BBC Radio
• Wooden Overcoats - Wooden Overcoats Ltd

Best Interview Podcast supported by ipDTL

• Getting Better Acquainted - Dave Pickering
• Scientists not the Science - Stuart Higgins
• Shoot First Talk Later: The Photoshoot Podcast - Robert Gershinson
• What Goes On Here - Sam Walker

Best New Podcast supported by the Radio Independents Group

• The Cinemile - Dave Corkery and Cathy Cullen
• Everyone Else - Eva Krysiak
• Say Why To Drugs - Distraction Pieces Network
• Soundtracking with Edith Bowman - Edith Bowman
• The Untold - BBC Radio 4

‘Other’ (AKA Most Original Podcast)

• Between the Ears - BBC Radio
• Mountain - Christopher Sleight
• Weird Tales and the Unexplainable - Bob Shoy

Best Radio Podcast supported by UK Radioplayer

• 50 Things That Changed The Modern Economy - BBC Radio Current Affairs for BBC World Service
• Ollie & Si - Ollie Gallant and Simon Alexander, Quidem Radio
• Kermode and Mayo's Film Review - Somethin' Else for BBC Radio
• Radiomoments Conversations - David Lloyd Media Services
• Short Cuts - Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio

Represent supported by Upload Radio

• Farmerama - Jo Barratt and Abby Rose
• Lunar Poetry Podcasts - David Turner
• Melanin Millennials - The ShoutOut Network

Best Review Podcast

• The Penguin Podcast - Somethin' Else
• Song by Song - Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay
• Soundtracking with Edith Bowman - Edith Bowman
• Spoiler - Joe Shmo
• SRSLY - The SRSLY Podcast from the New Statesman

Smartest Podcast supported by Whistledown Studios

• Chips With Everything - The Guardian
• Coffee Break Italian - Radio Lingua Network
• The National Trust Gardens Podcast - Fresh Air Production
• Scienceish - Radio Wolfgang
• Sound Matters - Third Ear/Quincey Sound production for B&O Play

Best Sport Podcast

• The Big Interview With Graham Hunter - Neil White
• The Cycling Podcast - Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe
• Fight Disciples Podcast - Fight Disciples
• Hornet Heaven - Olly Wicken
• How2Wrestling - Podcrabs

Best True Crime Podcast

• Body On The Moor - BBC Radio
• They Walk Among Us - Benjamin Fitton and Rosanna Fitton
• Untold: the Daniel Morgan Murder - Peter Jukes and Deeivya Meir

2018

The second British Podcast Awards saw the 50-strong judging panel, chaired by Nish Kumar, listening to over 1,000 hours of entries, with new categories created to recognise comedy, family and innovation. The 2018 awards were supported by acast, Radioplayer, Twitter, Muddy Knees Media, Podiant, Whistledown, IPDTL, Hindenburg Systems, Create Productions and Audible and Sony Music’s 4th Floor Creative.The British Podcast Awards also partnered with The Guardian to create a five-part podcast series podcast to showcase the nominees.^[8]

The ceremony, hosted by Olly Mann, took place in London in May 2018 and was attended by some of the biggest names in audio, including Simon Mayo, Mark Kermode, Jake Wood, Fi Glover, Josh Widdicombe and Fearne Cotton. The Listeners' Choice Award, won by Kermode and Mayo's Film Review, saw over 110,000 votes cast by the public.^[9]

2018 Nominees and Winners

Winners in bold

Podcast of the Year

• Griefcast - Cariad Lloyd

Listeners' Choice Award

• Kermode and Mayo's Film Review - Somethin' Else for BBC Radio 5 Live

Podcast Champion

• Helen Zaltzman

Best Branded Content supported by Muddy Knees Media

• Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places - Fresh Air Production for Historic England
• Parliament Explained  -Fresh Air Production, for UK Parliament
• The Discovery Adventures - Land Rover
• The Penguin Podcast - Somethin' Else for Penguin Random House
• Women in Business - NatWest, Pixiu, Acast & ZenithOptimedia

Best Comedy Podcast supported by Podiant

• A Gay & A NonGay - James Barr & Dan Hudson
• Babysitting Trevor  - Dot Dot Dot Productions
• Beef And Dairy Network Podcast - Benjamin Partridge
• The Political Party With Matt Forde - Matt Forde
• This Paranormal Life - Rory Powers and Kit Grier

Best Culture Podcast

• Literary Friction  - Carrie Plitt and Octavia Bright
• Soundtracking with Edith Bowman - Edith Bowman
• The Invisible College - Cathy FitzGerald BBC Radio 4
• The Two Shot Podcast - Thomas Griffin and Craig Parkinson
• Writer's Routine - Dan Simpson

Best Current Affairs

• Brexitcast - BBC Radio and Music Production
• Reasons To Be Cheerful - Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd
• Stop and Search With Jason Reed - Jason Reed
• The Foreign Desk - Bill Leuty, Joleen Goffin and Andrew Mueller (for Monocle)
• Weekly Economics Podcast - New Economics Foundation

Best Entertainment Podcast supported by Sony Music’s 4th Floor Creative

• Griefcast  - Cariad Lloyd
• Nothing To Declare Podcast  - Unedited
• Probably True - Scott Flashheart
• The Butterfly Effect - Jon Ronson
• The It's Nice That Podcast - Radio Wolfgang

Best Family Podcast

• Dirty Mother Pukka - Mother Pukka
• Fun Kids Science Weekly - Fun Kids
• Once Upon A Time In Zombieville - Bigmouth Audio for BBC Radio Scotland
• The Adoption - The World at One for BBC Radio 4
• The Discovery Adventures  - Land Rover

Best Fiction Podcast

• Blood Culture - Resonance
• Five Minute Folklore -Bob Shoy
• Imaginary Advice - Ross Sutherland
• Once Upon A Time In Zombieville - Bigmouth Audio for BBC Radio 4
• The Discovery Adventures - Land Rover

Best Interview Podcast supported by IP:DTL

• Griefcast - Cariad Lloyd
• Homo Sapiens  - Will Young and Christopher Sweeney
• Perfume Pioneers - Jo Barratt [for Somerset House]
• The Allusionist - Helen Zaltzman
• The Comedian's Comedian Podcast  - Stuart Goldsmith

Best New Podcast

• Adrift with Geoff Lloyd & Annabel Port  - Annabel Port and Geoff Lloyd
• My First Time - Sam Bonham for VICE
• Radio Atlas - Eleanor McDowall
• Reasons To Be Cheerful - Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd
• The Tip Off  - Maeve McClenaghan

Most Original Podcast supported by Audible

• Once Upon A Time In Zombieville  - Bigmouth Audio [for BBC Radio Scotland]
• Quake -BBC Radio Drama North
• Radio Atlas  -Eleanor McDowall
• The Discovery Adventures  - Land Rover
• The Poetry Exchange - Fiona Lesley Bennett, Michael Shaeffer & Ben Hales

The Represent Award supported by Twitter

• Carousel Radio - Davot, Fran, Ewan, Jonny and Sam
• I Hear Voices - BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat
• Mostly Lit - Alex Reads, Rai, Derek Owusu
• Stance Podcast - Chrystal Genesis & Heta Fell
• The Backstory - Claire Mutimer and Suzy Coulson

Best Radio Podcast supported by Radioplayer

• Elis James & John Robins on Radio X Podcast - Radio X
• Fun Kids Science Weekly - Fun Kids
• Russell Brand on Radio X Podcast - Radio X
• Short Cuts - Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 4
• The Listening Service - Tom Service and The Listening Service Team for BBC Radio 3

Smartest Podcast with Whistledown Studios

• Blue Planet II: The Podcast  - Emily Knight & Becky Ripley for the BBC
• Stop and Search With Jason Reed  - Jason Reed
• That Classical Podcast - Kelly Harlock and Chris Bland
• The Allusionist - Helen Zaltzman
• The Tip Off - Maeve McClenaghan

Best Sport Podcast

• Brian Moore's Full Contact - Telegraph Media Group
• Fight Disciples - Fight Disciples
• Quickly Kevin, Will He Score? - Chris Scull, Michael Marden & Josh Widdicombe
• The Cycling Podcast - Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie & Daniel Friebe
• Who Are Ya? - Ben Cartwright & David Cowlishaw

Best True Crime Podcast

• Beyond Reasonable Doubt?  - Wisebuddah for BBC Radio 5 Live
• Murder Mile True-Crime Podcast - Michael J Buchanan-Dunne
• S'laughter: True Crime Podcast - Lucy and Emma
• The Assassination - Owen Bennett-Jones & Neal Razzell for BBC World Service
• They Walk Among Us - Rosanna and Benjamin Fitton

2019

Entering its third year, the 2019 British Podcast Awards saw brand new categories, including acast Moment of the Year, Best Sex and Relationships podcast and the Bullseye Award supported by Podiant, alongside returning categories true crime, entertainment, interview, fiction and current affairs. The Bullseye Award honoured the podcasts that produce exceptional listening experiences for niche audiences and those under-represented in other British media.

On 8 April 2019, the nominations for the British Podcast Awards powered by DAX were streamed live on Twitter, with the podcasting stars of No Such Thing As A Fish revealing the top six podcasts nominated in each of the 15 categories.^[10]

The ceremony, hosted by Cariad Lloyd, took place in May 2019, with guests and presenters including Michael Sheen, Fearne Cotton, Julia Davis, Vicki Pepperdine, Elizabeth Day, Giovanna Fletcher, Alice Levine, Jane Garvey, Hussain Manawer, Katie Piper and Anna Whitehouse. The ceremony was recorded and available to watch on YouTube 48 hours after the event.^[11]

George The Poet, who entered his Have You Heard George's Podcast? declaring under 5000 listeners per episode, was the stand-out winner of the night, walking away with five awards, including Smartest, Best Arts & Culture, Best Fiction, Best New Podcast and was named Audioboom’s Podcast of the Year. Brexitcast, presented by Laura Kuenssberg, Chris Mason, Katya Adler and Adam Fleming, won the Listeners Choice award with 190,000 public votes cast.^[12]

2019 Nominees and Winners

Winners in bold

Podcast Of The Year

• Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet

Listeners' Choice Award

• Brexitcast

Podcast Champion

• My Dad Wrote A Porno

acast Moment of The Year

• Dear Joan and Jericha - Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine, A Hush Ho/Pepperdine Productions/Dot Dot Dot Co-Pro
• Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet
• My Dad Wrote A Porno - Jamie, James, Alice and Rocky
• Over The Bridge Podcast - Bill-al, Kway-ku, Patrick & Tom
  • Ways to Change the World, with Krishnan Guru-Murthy - Channel 4 News/ITN You, Me and the Big C - BBC Radio 5 Live

Best Branded Podcast

• Awake at Night - Chalk and Blade and Bethany Bell for the UNHCR
• Feminists Don't Wear Pink - Penguin Random House / Scarlett Curtis
• Hot Air- Radio Wolfgang
• Healthy For Men - The River Group (on behalf of Holland & Barrett)
• Meet Me at the Museum - Whistledown Productions for Art Fund
• Rough Guide to Everywhere - Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening

Bullseye Award supported by Podiant

• Probably True - Scott Flashheart
• Ask The Nincompoops - Andy Stanton and Carrie Quinlan, Great Big Owl
• Centuries of Sound - James Errington
• Somerset House Studios - Somerset House Studios
• Farmerama - Jo Barratt, Katie Revell, Abby Rose
• BBC Somerset's Cricket Show: Extras - BBC Somerset

Best Arts & Culture

• BLANK - with Jim Daly and Giles Paley-Phillips
• Excuse The Mess - Ben Corrigan
• Folk on Foot - Matthew Bannister
• Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet
  • How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - Elizabeth Day Stance Podcast - Heta Fell & Chrystal Genesis

Best Comedy Podcast supported by Spotify

• Beef And Dairy Network Podcast - Benjamin Partridge for Maximum Fun
• Birthday Girls' House Party - Whistledown Productions for BBC Sounds
• Dear Joan and Jericha - Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine, A Hush Ho/Pepperdine Productions/Dot Dot Dot Co-Pro
• The All New Angelos and Barry Podcast - Alex Lowe and Dan Skinner for Great Big Owl
• The Guilty Feminist - Deborah Frances-White
• The Horne Section Podcast - Pixiu for Deezer Originals

Best Current Affairs

• Beyond Today - BBC Radio 4
  • Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet Stance Podcast - Heta Fell & Chrystal Genesis
• The Grenfell Tower Inquiry with Eddie Mair - BBC Sounds
• The Intelligence - The Economist for Economist Radio
• Today in Focus - The Guardian

Best Entertainment Podcast supported by Sony Music’s 4th Floor Creative

• Blood on the Tracks - Shooting Sharks Productions for BBC Sounds
• Desert Island Dicks - Desert Island Dicks Podcast
• Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster - Plosive Productions
• Private Parts - Jamie Laing & Francis Boulle for Spirit Media
• Spark True Stories - Elle Scott
• This Paranormal Life - Rory Powers & Kit Grier

Best Family Podcast

• Everything Under The Sun - Molly Oldfield
  • Fun Kids Science Weekly - Fun Kids Made By Mammas  - Create Productions
• Ruthie: Me and My Dad - talkRADIO / Wireless Studios
• Surrogacy: A Family Frontier - Dustin Lance-Black, Tracy Williams and Jane Andrews for BBC Radio 5 Live
• The Long Road to Baby - Sophie Sulehria

Best Fiction Podcast

• Calais 2037 - New Time Productions Limited
• Double Bubble - Prison Radio Association
• Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet
• The Amelia Project - Philip Thorn & Oystein Brager for Imploding Fictions
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - Julian Simpson, Sweet Talk Productions for BBC Radio 4
• The Offensive - Radio Stakhanov

Best Interview

• Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast - Anna Williamson, Create Productions
• Declassified - Michael Coates
• Homo Sapiens - Will Young and Christopher Sweeney for Banana Stand
  • How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - Elizabeth Day Sex Talk - Prison Radio Association
• The Modern Mann - Olly Mann for Rethink Audio

Best New Podcast

• A Mile in My Shoes - Empathy Museum and Loftus Media
• About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge - Reni Eddo-Lodge/Renay Richardson
• Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet
• No Country for Young Women - BBC Sounds
• On The Road - Prison Radio Association
• Today in Focus - The Guardian

Best Radio Podcast supported by Radioplayer

• Brexit: A Love Story? - World at One for BBC Radio 4
  • Fun Kids Science Weekly - Fun Kids Multi Story - BBC Local Radio
• ShoutOut Radio - ShoutOut Radio
• Tara and George - Audrey Gillan for Falling Tree Productions
• The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X  - Global

Best Sex & Relationships Podcast

• #QueerAF - National Student Pride & Jamie Wareham
• Project Pleasure - Anouszka Tate and Frankie Wells
• Qmmunity  - Alexis Caught, Kevin Morosky, Christania McPherson
• The Receipts Podcast - Audrey Akande/Milena Sanchez/Tolani Shoneye
• The Sugar Baby Confessionals - Sara-Mae Tuson for Fable Gazers
• Unexpected Fluids - BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 1

Smartest Podcast

• About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge - Reni Eddo-Lodge & Renay Richardson
• Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet
• On The Road - Prison Radio Association
• Shedunnit - Caroline Crampton
• The Tip Off - Maeve McClenaghan for Acast
• The Urbanist - Monocle 24

Spotlight Award

• Fortunately...with Fi and Jane - BBC Radio 4
• George Ezra & Friends - George Ezra
• Happy Mum, Happy Baby - Giovanna Fletcher for Pixiu
• Happy Place - Fearne Cotton
• Katie Piper's Extraordinary People - Katie Piper for Somethin' Else
• That Peter Crouch Podcast - BBC Radio 5 Live for BBC Sounds

Best Sport

• F1: Beyond The Grid - Formula 1 for Audioboom
• LS11 - Darren Harper and Ryan Wilson for Proper Sport
• The BBC's LGBT Sport Podcast - Jack Murley for BBC Radio Jersey
• The Big Interview with Graham Hunter - BackPage Media
• The Cycling Podcast Féminin - The Cycling Podcast
• The Totally Football Show with James Richardson - Muddy Knees Media for the Totally Football Network

Best True Crime

• Case Notes - Classic FM for Global
• Dead Man Talking - Peter Sale & Alex Hannaford - DMT Media & Audioboom
• Death in Ice Valley - Neil McCarthy/Marit Higraff for BBC World Service/NRK
• End Of Days - Ciaran Tracey & Chris Warburton for the BBC
• RedHanded - Hannah Maguire & Suruthi Bala for Acast
• The Doorstep Murder - Fiona Walker for BBC Scotland.

2020

The 2020 British Podcast Awards, in association with acast, took place digitally due to COVID-19 restrictions in the UK, with awards taken to winner’s doorsteps and a hamper of confetti cannons and treats for all nominees.

The 2020 nominees were chosen from over 1,000 entries, by over 50 judges, including the likes of Annie Mac, Katie Piper and Dustin Lance Black, with 2019 big winner George The Poet overseeing the process as chair of the judges.^[13] New award categories for 2020 included Best Daily Podcast, Best Live Episode, Best Publisher or Network, Best Wellbeing Podcast and Best Podcast in the Welsh Language.

The ceremony, presented by Clara Amfo and Rhianna Dhillon with presenters including Claudia Winkleman, Louis Theroux, Ian Wright and Mel Giedroyc, was live-streamed on YouTube and watched by 12,000 viewers at home.^[14] The Listeners Choice Award received over 230,000 votes and was won by Shagged Married Annoyed, presented by Chris and Rosie Ramsey.

2020 Nominees and Winners

Winners in bold

Podcast Of The Year

• Brown Girls Do It Too

Listener Choice Award supported by BBC Sounds

• Shagged Married Annoyed

Podcast Champion

• Renay Richardson

Best Arts & Culture Podcast supported by Pod Bible

• Best Pick - The Spontaneity Shop
• Classical Fix - BBC Radio 3
• Rule of Three - Great Big Owl
• Selfridges Hot Air presents State of the Arts - Radio Wolfgang
• Somerset House - Somerset House
• Song by Song - Sam Pay and Martin Zaltz Austwick for Stripped Media Network

Best Branded Podcast

• #QueerAF - Jamie Wareham for National Student Pride
• DeepMind: The Podcast - Whistledown Productions for DeepMind
• Meet Me at the Museum - Art Fund
• On the Marie Curie Couch - Marie Curie
• Penguin Podcast - Somethin' Else
• The Rough Guide to Everywhere Aimee White with Reduced Listening

The Bullseye Award

• After: Surviving Sexual Assault - Listen Entertainment for BBC Sounds
• Strong Manchester Women - Vic Elizabeth Turnbull at MIC Media
• The Investor's Guide to China - Fidelity International
• The Offensive - Stakhanov
• Things Unseen: Entombed - CTVC
• This Is Spoke - Penguin Random House UK, Fremantle, BMG.

Best Business Podcast

• Doing It For The Kids - Doing It For The Kids
• Jazz Shapers sponsored by Mishcon De Reya - Jazz FM for Bauer Media
• Money Talks - Economist Radio for The Economist
• Squiggly Careers - Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis
• Tales Of Silicon Valley - The Times/Wireless Studios
• The Northern Power Women Podcast - Northern Power Women for What Goes On Media

Best Comedy Podcast supported by Acast

• Brian & Roger - Great Big Owl
• Dear Joan and Jericha - Julia Davis & Vicki Pepperdine
• Josh Berry's Fake News - Union JACK Radio
• Kurupt FM - Audible UK
• Mind Canyon - Charlie Kemp & Steve Dawson
• Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster - Plosive Productions

The Creativity Award

• David Walliams' Marvellous Musical Podcast - Global
• Fake Heiress - BBC Radio Drama London Sasha, Vicky & Chloe for BBC Radio 4
• Mind Canyon - Charlie Kemp & Steve Dawson
• The Skewer - Jon Holmes for BBC Radio 4
• The Sound of Anger - Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions
• Where is My Mind? - Niall Breslin

Best Current Affairs Podcast

• Full Disclosure with James O'Brien - Global Original for Global
• Stance Podcast - Chrystal Genesis
  • The Intelligence - Economist Radio for The Economist The Tortoise Podcast - Tortoise Media
• The Week Junior Show - Fun Kids and The Week Junior
• Today in Focus - The Guardian

Best Daily Podcast supported by Podfollow

• Beyond Today - Beyond Today team for BBC Sounds
• Love Island: The Morning After - Kem & Arielle for ITV
• The Globalist - Monocle 24
• The Rob Auton Daily Podcast - Plosive Productions
• The Santa Daily - Fun Kids
• Today in Focus - The Guardian

Best Entertainment Podcast

• George Ezra & Friends - 4th Floor Creative
• Help I Sexted My Boss - William Hanson and Jordan North Audio Always
• No Country For Young Women - Radio 1 and 1Xtra Production BBC Sounds
• Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster - Plosive Productions
• Sam Walker's Desert Diaries - Sam Walker
• Something Rhymes with Purple - Somethin' Else

Best Family Podcast

• Ask The Nincompoops - Great Big Owl
• Breaking Mum & Dad - Anna Williamson
• David Walliams' Marvellous Musical Podcast - Global
• Diddy Pod - Ciaran Murtagh, Andrew Barnett Jones, Steve Ryde for CBBC / BBC Radio
• The Intended Parent - Fran and Kreena
• The Trap Door - Sophie Black

Best Fiction

• Brian & Roger - Great Big Owl
• Coexistence - Coex Studios
• Fall of the Shah - Steve Waters for BBC World Service
• Hag - Thomas Curry, Harriet Poland, Tom Killian for Audible UK
• Mockery Manor - Laurence Owen & Lindsay Sharman
• Passenger List Goldhawk Productions/Radiotopia

Best Interview

• Trust Issues: The Infected Blood Scandal - Rachel Botsman
• Declassified - Michael Coates
• Homo Sapiens - Homo Sapiens
• How To Kill An Hour - Marcus Bronzy for Podcast Studio London
• Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner - Somethin' Else
• Today in Focus - The Guardian

Best Live Episode supported by Latitude

• Blood on the Tracks - Shooting Shark
• Can We Just Ask - Can Anyone Be An Activist? - Annie Clarke & Will Clempner
• Nobody Panic - Plosive Productions
• Tailenders - TBI Media for BBC Radio 5 Live
• Tape Notes - Tape Notes
• The Empire Film Podcast - Empire for Bauer Media

Moment Of The Year

• #QueerAF - Jamie Wareham for National Student Pride
• Happy Place - Fearne Cotton
• No Such Thing As A Fish - No Such Thing As A Fish
• RHLSTP - Sky Potato, Go Faster Stripe & Fuzz Productions
• Tunnel 29 - Helena Merriman BBC Radio 4 / BBC Sounds
• Ways to Change the World - Channel 4 News

Best Network or Publisher supported by 4DC

• The Athletic
• BBC World Service
• The Guardian
• Mags Creative
• Somethin' Else
• Studio 71

Best New Podcast supported by Factory Studios

• Accentricity - Sadie Ryan
• Masala Podcast - Sangeeta Pillai for Soul Sutras
• Shagged Married Annoyed - Chris and Rosie Ramsey for Avalon Television Ltd
• The IMO Podcast - Chris & Michelle for The IMO project
• The Last Bohemians - House of Hutch
• The Log Books - Adam Smith, Tash Walker and Shivani Dave

Best Radio Podcast

• Ellie and Anna Have Issues -Ellie & Anna for Global
• Kermode and Mayo's Film Review - Somethin' Else for BBC Radio 5
• The Chris Moyles Show On Radio X Podcast - Chris Moyles for Global
• The Santa Daily - Fun Kids
• The Skewer - Jon Holmes for BBC Radio 4
• Tunnel 29 - Helena Merriman for BBC Radio 4

Best Sex & Relationships Podcast

• #QueerAF - Jamie Wareham for National Student Pride
• Lights On - Amaliah
• Brown Girls Do It Too - BBC Asian Network
• F**ks Given - ComeCurious & Studio71 UK
• Masala Podcast - Sangeeta Pillai for Soul Sutras
• The Breakup Monologues - Rosie Wilby

Smartest Podcast

• Food Actually - Chalk & Blade / Pushkin Industries for Luminary Media
• Power Corrupts - Brian Klaas
• Tales Of Silicon Valley - The Times/Wireless Studios
• The Listening Service - Radio 3 Production for BBC Radio 3
• The Sound of Anger - Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions
• The Tip Off - Maeve McClenaghan

Best Sport Podcast supported by Audioboom

• COPA90 Football Inside Out - FIFA Women's World Cup 2019 - We Are Grape for COPA90
• The Beautiful Brain - Hana Walker-Brown for Audible UK
• The Cycling Podcast - Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe
• The Exs and Os Podcast - Exs and Os
• The Game Changers - Fearless Women
• The Totally Football Show - Muddy Knees Media for Totally Football Network

The Spotlight Award

• Deliciously Ella - Deliciously Ella for Mags Creative
• Elis James and John Robins - Audio Always for BBC Radio 5 Live
• Happy Mum Happy Baby - Giovanna Fletcher
• My Dad Wrote A Porno - Jamie, James, Alice & Rocky
• Table Manners with Jessie Ware - Jessie Ware
• The Guilty Feminist - The Spontaneity Shop

Best True Crime Podcast

• Paradise - Dan Maudsley for 5 Live & BBC Sounds
• The Bellingcat Podcast: MH17 - Novel
• The Hurricane Tapes - Steve Crossman & Joel Hammer for BBC World Service
• The Last Days of August - Jon Ronson, Lina Misitzis for Audible UK
• The Missing Cryptoqueen - Georgia Catt & Jamie Bartlett for BBC Sounds
• Unheard: The Fred and Rose West Tapes - Somethin' Else

Best Podcast In The Welsh Language

• Dwy Iaith, Un Ymennydd - Elis James produced by Alpha for BBC Cymru
• Siarad Secs - Astud for BBC Cymru
• Yr Haclediad - Bryn Salisbury, Iestyn Lloyd, Sioned Mills

Best Wellbeing Podcast

• Declassified - Michael Coates
• GABA - Adam Martin
• Hooked: The Unexpected Addicts - BBC 5 Live
• No Really, I'm Fine - Reach Plc
• Rainbow Dads - Richard and Nicholas
• The Sound of Anger - Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions

2021

In 2021 the British Podcast Awards, now in its fifth year and powered by Amazon Music, announced new categories, including Best Lockdown Podcast, Best Documentary Podcast and The International Award for overseas podcasts, suggested by the readers of the Great British Podcasts email newsletter.

The awards took place at an open-air London venue in July 2021 to reflect the COVID-19 restrictions on large indoor gatherings. Hosted by Jordan North, William Hanson and Poppy Jay, guest presenters included Fearne Cotton, Jessie Ware, Oti Mabuse, My Dad Wrote A Porno, Vick Hope, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, No Such Thing As A Fish and Deborah Frances-White.

Stolen Goodbyes won Best Lockdown podcast, which tells the stories of those who died from Covid-19 without having the chance to say goodbye. Best New podcast went to Field Recordings, a podcast transporting listeners to the great outdoors whilst being confined to their own homes.

The only award voted for by the public, the Listeners’ Choice Award saw over 140,000 votes cast. The top spot this year was won by true crime podcast Redhanded podcast, with Podcast Champion awarded to Fearne Cotton to recognise her work in the mental health and wellbeing space. VENT Documentaries, a podcast that shares the formative experiences of young people in the London borough of Brent picked up three awards – Smartest Podcast, Best Documentary and Podcast of the Year.

2021 Nominees and Winners

Winners in bold

Podcast Of The Year supported by Sony Music

• VENT Documentaries

BBC Sounds Listeners' Choice Award

• Redhanded Podcast

Spotify Podcast Champion

• Fearne Cotton

The Gold Award

• Answer Me This!

Best Arts & Culture Podcast supported by Create Podcasts

• Happy Place
• Real Dictators
• Shade Podcast
• The Empire Film Podcast
• The Secret Life of Songs
• Transmissions: The Definitive Story Of Joy Division And New Order

Best Branded Podcast supported by Acast Creative

• Gardening with the RHS
• Grilling
• Military Wives: The Official Film Podcast
• Table Manners with Jessie Ware
• The Crown Podcast
• The Midpoint

The Bullseye Award

• Bare Naked Politics
• Benlunar
• Out of Home
• SomeFamilies
• The Confidence Fighter
• The SwimOut Podcast

Best Business Podcast supported by Wondery

• Doing It For The Kids
• How To Own The Room
• Money Maze Podcast
• The Diary of a CEO
• The Voiceover Social
• We Built This city: Greater Manchester

Best Comedy Podcast supported by Stitcher

• Beef And Dairy Network
• Dear Joan and Jericha
• Hidden Ireland
• Kurupt FM
• Poppy Hillstead Has Entered The Chat
• SeanceCast

The Creativity Award

• Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow)
• Interconnected Voices
• James Acaster's Perfect Sounds
• Probably True
• The Power of Sound
• Tracks: Abyss

Best Current Affairs Podcast

• Interconnected Voices
• Stories Of Our Times
• The Intelligence
• The Oxfordshire News Podcast
• Today in Focus
• Your Broccoli Weekly

Best Daily Podcast supported by Spotify

• Anthems
• Stories Of Our Times
• The Intelligence
• The Santa Daily
• Today in Focus
• Wake Up, Wind Down

Best Documentary

• Hometown: A Killing
• Ida Schuster's Old School
• My Mother's Murder
• Peter 2.0
• The Secrets In Us
• VENT Documentaries

Best Entertainment Podcast supported by Amazon Music

• 6 Degrees From Jamie and Spencer
• A Gay and a NonGay
• James Acaster's Perfect Sounds
• No Ideas Just Vibes
• Stars In Your Ears
• Table Manners with Jessie Ware

Best Family Podcast

• Bottle Ship Adventures
• Fun Kids Science Weekly
• History Story Time
• Homeschool History
• Maddie's Sound Explorers
• World Wise Web

Best Fiction Podcast

• Cassie and Corey
• DEM TIMES
• Lem N Ginge: The Princess of Kakos
• Once Upon A Time in Zombieville
• The Harrowing
• This Thing of Darkness

The International Award

• Bunga Bunga
• Floodlines
• How's Work? by Esther Perel
• Revisionist History
• The Daily
• The Joe Rogan Experience

Best Interview Podcast supported by Pod Bible

• Dead Honest
• Future Prison
• Masala Podcast
• The Student Sessions
• Today in Focus
• Ways to Change the World

Best Lockdown Podcast supported by Amazon Music

• BBC Your Work, Your Money
• Folk on Foot: Front Room Festivals
• Mandemic
  • Phone A Friend with George Ezra Stolen Goodbyes
• The Mentor

acast Moment Of The Year

• The Divorce Club
• Happy Place
• Sandman
• Ways to Change the World
• Where Is George Gibney?
• Who Shat On The Floor At My Wedding?

Best Network or Publisher

• The Athletic
• BBC World Service
• Economist Radio
• Fun Kids
• Plosive Productions
• Stakhanov

Best New Podcast

• Field Recordings
• Growing up with Gal-Dem
• Hunting Ghislaine
• Maddie's Sound Explorers
• Prison Bag
• VENT Documentaries

Best Radio Podcast supported by DTS AutoStage

• Danny Wallace’s Important Broadcast Podcast
• Fun Kids' Story Explorers
• Homeschool History
• Slide Into My Podcast
• The Sista Collective
• The Skewer

Smartest Podcast supported by podfollow

• Maddie's Sound Explorers
• Peter 2.0
• Stories of Scotland
• The Secret Life of Prisons
• VENT Documentaries
• Windrush Stories

Best Sport Podcast

• A Winning Mindset: Lessons From the Paralympics
• Coming In From The Cold: The History Of Black Footballers In The English Game
• F1: Beyond The Grid
• Fight Disciples
• GIANT - A Spotify Original
• The High Performance Podcast

The Spotlight Award

• Alan Partridge - From the Oasthouse
• French & Saunders

Titting About

• Grounded with Louis Theroux
• Happy Mum Happy Baby
• The Isolation Tapes
• The YUNGBLUD Podcast

Best True Crime Podcast

• Hometown: A Killing
• Hope High
• Hunting Ghislaine
• The Missing
• Where Is George Gibney?
• Who Killed CJ Davis?

Best Wellbeing Podcast

• Cassie & Corey
• Discovering Dementia
• How Did We Get Here?
• How Do You Cope? with Elis and John
• Talk Twenties Podcast
• The YUNGBLUD Podcast

Best Podcast In The Welsh Language

• Clear
• Dewr
• Gwrachod He die
• Nawr yw'r Awr
• Y Corridor Ansicrwydd
• Y Diflaniad

2022

More than 250 nominees in over 30 categories made the shortlist for the British Podcast Awards 2022. The judging panel, chaired by Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel, listened to 319 hours of podcasts from over 1,200 entries. Elis James and John Robins hosted the event, alongside Pandora Sykes, Jamie Laing, My Dad Wrote a Porno, Idris and Sabrina Elba, Poppy Jay, Jon Sopel, RedHanded, The Receipts’ Tolani Shoneye and Dr Rupy.

The Podcast Champion was awarded to the BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C. The award honoured the work of the late Dame Deborah James, Rachel Bland, Lauren Mahon and their entire team, whose podcast has contributed to public awareness and perception of cancer and cancer treatment.

BBC World Service podcast Dear Daughter won Best Family Podcast and the prestigious Podcast of the Year award. Dear Daughter hears letters written to daughters from around the world, which are often described by listeners as inspiring, poignant and funny.

The only award voted for by the public, The Listeners’ Choice Award, was won by the true-crime podcast RedHanded for a second time.

2022 Nominees and Winners

Winners in bold

Podcast of the Year supported by Audible

• Dear Daughter – BBC World Service

Listeners' Choice Award supported by Acast+

• RedHanded

Podcast Champion

• You, Me and the Big C

Moment of the Year

• +44 Podcast with Zeze Millz and Sideman – So Incredible for Amazon Music
• Chinese Chippy Girl
• Coiled – Leanne Alie & Sylvie Carlos
• Happy Place – Fearne Cotton
• Masala Podcast – Sangeeta Pillai, Soul Sutras
• Shagged Married Annoyed – Chris & Rosie Ramsey
• Sweet Bobby – Tortoise Media
• The Intelligence – The Economist
• The Missing – What’s The Story Sound & Podimo for Amazon Music
• Things Fell Apart – BBC Audio for BBC Radio 4

Best Arts & Culture Podcast Supported by PodBible

• +44 Podcast with Zeze Millz and Sideman – So Incredible for Amazon Music
• Activity Quest – Fun Kids
• Beauty Fix – BBC Audio for BBC Sounds
• FT Weekend – Financial Times
• Have you Heard George’s Podcast? – BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sounds
• James Acaster’s Perfect Sounds – BBC Sounds
• Legends Fall In The Making – BBC Studio’s Factual Podcast Unit for 1Xtra
• LPO Offstage – Tandem Production for the London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Short History of… – Noiser
• Talk Art – Russell Tovey and Robert Diament

Best Branded Content Podcast

• Behind The Rings – Fresh Air Production & Audi UK
• Forced to Flee – UNHCR
• Lives on the Lines – Fresh Air Production & Greater Anglia Trains
• LSE IQ – The LSE iQ Team
• Puppy Podcast (Pets at Home) – John Brown for Pets at Home
• Red Bull Basement Sessions – Red Bull
• The Global Safety Podcast – Fresh Air Production & Lloyds Register Foundation
• The Radio Times Podcast – Somethin’ Else for Immediate Media
• You’re on Mute – Black Business Institute & 4DC
• Youth Rising by NCS – Somethin’ Else for NCS

Best Business Podcast Supported by Subly

• Being Freelance – Steve Folland
• Money Clinic – Financial Times
• Money Talks – The Economist
• Ninetwentynine – Listen for Fiverr
• Off The Agenda – Sir Charles Bowman & Edwin Danso
• Social Minds – Social Chain
• Tales from the Tannoy – Sayer Hamilton
• The Little Questions – Apella Advisors
• The REALWORK Podcast with Fleur Emery – Realwork
• We Built This City – Roland Dransfield PR

Best Comedy Podcast Supported by Amazon Music

• Cold Case Crime Cuts – unusual
• Come Into My Kitchen – Ralph Jones and Daniel Nils Roberts
• Drunk Women Solving Crime – Hannah George, Taylor Glenn and Catie Wilkins
• Jamali Maddix: Spooky Shit – Novel for Audible
• My Dad Wrote a Porno – Team Porno
• The Skewer – unusual
• The Staff Room Podcast – Harry Stachini
• This is Gay – Kirk Flash
• This Paranormal Life – Rory Powers & Kit Grier Mulvenna
• Titting About – Listen for Audible

Best Current Affairs Podcast

• Death by Conspiracy? – BBC Radio 4 for BBC Sounds
• File on 4 – Long Form Audio Salford for BBC Radio 4
• Media Storm – The House of the Guilty Feminist
• The Big Steal – GML and Fresh Air Production
• The Foreign Desk – Monocle 24
• The Intelligence – The Economist
• The Slow Newscast – Tortoise Media
• The Week Junior Show – Fun Kids & The Week Junior
• Today in Focus – The Guardian
• Westminster Insider – Whistledown Productions for POLITICO Europe

Best Daily Podcast

• COP26 Daily – The Big Light Podcast Network
• Dan Snow’s History Hit – History Hit
• Everyday Positivity – Kate Cocker for Volley
• Shot & Chaser – Somethin’ Else for Spotify
• The Intelligence – The Economist
• The Monocle Daily – Monocle 24
• The Santa Daily – Fun Kids & Devaweb
• The Teamsheet – Audio Always for Spotify
• Today in Focus – The Guardian
• Wake Up Wind Down – Niall Breslin for Spotify

Best Documentary Podcast

• Bias Diagnosis – Whistledown Productions for Audible
• Brixton: Flames on the Frontline – BBC Radio Current Affairs for BBC Radio 5 Live
• Freshwater, from Today in Focus – The Guardian
• Harsh Reality – Novel for Wondery
• Have You Heard George’s Podcast? – George the Poet for BBC Sounds & BBC Radio 5 Live
• I’m Not a Monster – BBC News Longform Audio for BBC Radio 5 Live
• Lecker: A Food Podcast – Lucy Dearlove for Lecker Kitchens
• Sweet Bobby – Tortoise Media
• The Coming Storm – BBC Radio 4
• We Were Always Here – Broccoli Productions

Best Entertainment Podcast Supported by Create Podcasts

• British Scandal – Wondery
• Decode – Reduced Listening for Spotify
• Desert Island Dicks – James Deacon
• Elis James and John Robins – Audio Always for BBC Radio 5 Live
• Feast is Feast with Big Zuu – Global
• Nul Points – Martyn Williams & Laura Cress
• Pressed – BBC Studios TalentWorks & Unheard Network for BBC Sounds
• Shagged, Married, Annoyed – Chris & Rosie Ramsey
• The Down Low – Ess & Bernie
• You’re Dead to Me – The Athletic UK for BBC Radio 4

Best Family Podcast

• Armchair Adventures – Made By Mortals
• Bedtime Stories from Dreams – Audio Always for Dreams
• Bottle Ship Adventures – Charly Conquest & Ben Mullins for Bedtime FM
• The Confidence Fighter – Myrtle Mitchell
• Dadvengers Podcast – Nigel Clarke & The London Podcast Company
• Dear Daughter – BBC Long Form Audio for BBC World Service
• Koko Sleep – Sleep With Sleepiest
• Mother of All Solutions – Laura Broderick
• Operation Ouch – Listen for Maverick TV
• Super Great Kids’ Stories – Wardour Studio

Best Fiction Podcast

• Atlantic: A Scottish Story – Noisemaker & The Big Light
• Earth Eclipsed – The Lunar Company for Apollo Podcasts
• Fully Amplified – Futures Theatre
• Ignite Climate Shorts – Fierce Green Productions
• King Frank and the Knights of the Eco Quest – Soundscape Productions for Fun Kids
• Soundworlds – Patrick Eakin Young
• The Ballad of Anne & Mary – Long Cat Media
• The Magnus Archives – Rusty Quill
• The Silt Verses – Eskew Productions
• Wooden Overcoats

Best Interview Podcast Supported by Podfollow

• A Gay and a Non Gay – James Barr and Dan Hudson
• Chinese Chippy Girl
• Coupledom with Idris and Sabrina Elba – Audible
• Distraction Pieces: Where’s Your Head At? – Scroobius Pip
• Full Disclosure with James O’Brien – Global
• Masala Podcast – Sangeeta Pillai, Soul Sutras
• Stories Of Our Times – The Times
• Tales From The Tannoy – Sayer Hamilton
• The Secret Life Of Prisons – Prison Radio Association
• We Are Black Journos

Best Live Podcast

• Bad People – BBC Audio Science for BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sounds
• Cabinet Of Jazz – Loftus Media for Jazz FM
• Drunk Women Solving Crime – Hannah George, Taylor Glenn and Catie Wilkins
• Girls On Film Podcast – Anna Smith and Hedda Archbold
• Nobody Panic – Plosive Podcasts
• Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster – Plosive Podcasts
• Pappy’s Flatshare Slamdown – Pappy’s
• The Empire Film Podcast – Bauer Media
• The Guilty Feminist – Deborah Frances-White
• The Moon Under Water – Audio Always

Best New Podcast

• Call Me Mother – Novel
• Decode – Reduced Listening for Spotify
• Ignite Climate Shorts – Fierce Green Productions
• MUBI Podcast – MUBI, Inc
• Off The Beaten Jack – Jack Boswell
• Outcast UK - Graeme Smith
• Promenade – The Shift Podcast Network
• Teach Me a Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie – Banana Stand for BBC Sounds
• The Way We Are with Munroe Bergdorf – Mags Creative for Spotify
• Yours Sincerely with Jess Phillips – Audio Always

Best Radio Podcast

• A Wish For Afghanistan – BBC World Service
• Homeschool History – The Athletic UK for BBC Radio 4
• Legends Fall In The Making – BBC Studio’s Factual Podcast Unit for 1Xtra
• Our Journey – Miranda Rae & Sound Women South West
• Room 5 – Helena Merriman for BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds
• Skin Tings – Bauer Media
• The Great Post Office Trial – Whistledown Productions for BBC Radio 4
• The Santa Daily – Fun Kids & Devaweb
• The Skewer – unusual
• Uncanny – Uncanny Media and Bafflegab Productions for BBC Radio 4

Best Sex & Relationships Podcast

• A Gay and A NonGay – James Barr and Dan Hudson
• Assume Nothing: Rape Trial – BBC Northern Ireland
• F**ks Given – Crowd Network
• Homo Sapiens – Spirit Studios
• Life of Bi: A Slippery History of Bisexuality – Ell Potter and Mary Higgins
• Millennial Love – The Independent
• The Divorce Social with Samantha Baines – Samantha Baines
• The Meaningful Life with Andrew G. Marshall – Andrew G. Marshall
• The Receipts – Audrey, Tolani, Milena for Spotify
• The Sexual Wellness Sessions – Kate Moyle

Smartest Podcast

• A Thorough Examination with Drs Chris and Xand: Addicted To Food – Loftus Media
• Decode – Reduced Listening for Spotify
• Have You Heard George’s Podcast? – George the Poet for BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sounds
• Lecker: A Food Podcast – Lucy Dearlove for Lecker Kitchens
• Stephen Fry’s Edwardian Secrets – Stephen Fry and Testbed Productions for Audible
• Tan France’s Queer Icons – 7digital for Audible
• Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie – Banana Stand for BBC Sounds
• The Tip Off – Maeve McClenaghan & Studio To Be
• The Unfiltered History Tour – VICE World News
• Year 21 – BBC News Northern Ireland

Best Sport Podcast

• F1: Beyond the Grid – Audioboom Studios for Formula 1
• Fight of the Century:Ali v Frazier – TBI Media for BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sounds
• Following On – talkSPORT
• Football Ramble Presents – Stak
• Mark Andrews My Love Letter to Wrestling – BBC Wales for BBC Sounds
• Race F1 Podcast – The Race Media for The Athletic
• Tailenders – TBI Media for BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sounds
• The Fake Paralympians – BBC Long Form Audio for BBC World Service
• The Official Manchester United Podcast – Audio Always for Manchester United FC
• The Teamsheet – Audio Always for Spotify

Best True Crime Podcast

• American Vigilante – Crowd Network
• Bad Cops – BBC Long Form Audio for BBC World Service
• Battersea Poltergeist – Uncanny Media and Bafflegab Productions for BBC Radio 4
• Seventeen Years: The Andrew Malkinson story – Stories of our times, The Times
• Sweet Bobby – Tortoise Media
• The Catch – Message Heard for Audible
• The Lazarus Heist – BBC World Service
• The Northern Bank Job – BBC Northern Ireland for BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds
• Who Killed Emma – BBC Scotland Podcasts
• Wild Crimes for the Natural History Museum – Whistledown Productions for the Natural History Museum

The Climate Award

• Chattin’ Shit to Save the Planet
• Common Threads – Ruth MacGilp and Alice Cruickshank
• Get Birding – Peanut & Crumb
• Great Green Questions – Mags Creative
• Ignite Climate Shorts – Fierce Green Productions
• The Long Time Academy – Headspace, The Long Time Project & Scenery Studios
• Ocean Matters – Fresh Air Production & The Bertarelli Foundation
• The Climate Question – BBC Long for Audio for BBC World Service
• The SpaceShip Earth Podcast – Dan Burgess
• Which? Investigates – Which?

Best Wellbeing Podcast

• Built to Thrive – Listen for Amazon Music
• Declassified – Michael Coates
• Effin’ Hormones – Helen, Emma, Terri and Beena
• Happy Place – Fearne Cotton
• Homo Sapiens – Spirit Studios
• Manatomy – Danny Wallace, Phil Hilton & Joe Attewell
• Self Care Club – Lauren Mishcon & Nicole Goodman
• The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast – Kate Moryoussef
• The Merry Menopause Bookclub Podcast – Jo Fuller
• Yours Sincerely, Jess Phillips – Audio Always

Best Welsh Podcast

• Cwîns efo Mari a Meilir
• Gwrachod Heddiw
• Probcast
• Sgwrsio
• Siarad Secs

Best Network or Publisher

• Audio Always
• BBC Radio 5 Live
• BBC World Service
• Financial Times
• Fun Kids
• History Hit
• Mags Creative
• Noiser
• Stak
• The Athletic

The Creativity Award supported by Audible

• A Life More Wild – 18Sixty for Canopy & Stars
• Assume Nothing: Rape Trial – BBC Northern Ireland
• Have You Heard George’s Podcast? – George the Poet for BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Sounds
• Neutrinowatch – Martin Zaltz Austwick and Jeff Emtman
• Operation Ouch! The Podcast of Everything – Listen for Maverick TV
• Soundworlds – Patrick Eakin Young
• Stories of our times – The Times
• The Bias Diagnosis – Whistledown Productions for Audible
• The Flock – A Ton Of Feathers
• The Rez – Rezilience

Best Sales Team

• Adelicious
• Fresh Air Production
• Message Heard Sales Team

Best Marketing Campaign

• Anthems
• Exactly. with Florence Given
• Sweet Bobby

Best Commercial Campaign

• Money Talks (Acast Creative & Klarna)
• Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
• Ed Sheeran’s Mathematics Tour (Fun Kids)

BBC Sounds Rising Star

• Amy Richards
• Cara McGoogan
• DJ Flight
• Ella Saltmarshe
• Georgie Ma
• Kirk Flash
• Marianna Spring
• Meera Kumar
• Michael Safi
• Shivani Dave

The Spotlight Award

• Bad Women – Pushkin Industries
• British Scandal – Wondery
• Fairy Meadow – BBC Audio Bristol and BBC News for BBC Radio 4
• Newscast – BBC News
• Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster – Plosive Podcasts
• Real Dictators – Noiser
• Rose & Rosie: Parental Guidance – BBC Studios Audio for Spotify
• Short History Of… – Noiser
• The Foreign Desk – Monocle 24
• The High Performance Podcast – Jake Humphrey

The Bullseye Award

• And Then Came Breast Cancer – Future Dreams & 6Foot6 Productions
• Getting Emotional – Bex Lindsay
• History Storytime – Sophie, Eleanor and Mark
• Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future – Jimmy McLoughin OBE
• Locked Up Living – Naomi Murphy & David Jones
• Making Conversations Count – Podknows Productions & Wendy Ann Harris
• Song by Song – Sam Pay and Martin Austwick
• Talk Twenties – Gaby Mendes
• The Proper Mental Podcast – Tom Davies
• Ysbeidiau Heulog – Llwyd Owen & Leigh Jones

2023

Entries opened in January 2023 for the seventh British Podcast Awards which returned in September that year, in partnership with PodPod.^[15]

The 2023 ceremony took place in central London and was attended by around 500 figures from the podcasting industry. The event was hosted by Zoe Lyons and Stephen Bailey, comedians and co-hosts of the Let's Talk About the Husband podcast. Partners for the event included BBC Sounds, Global, Audible, Amazon Music and Wondery, and Nomono, with each sponsoring a different category.

Judges from 2023’s British Podcast Awards received over 1,000 submissions across 22 categories. The Podcast of The Year award was chosen by the judges from the Gold winners and went to BBC Radio Wales’ A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to Today on the stories of people in the UK with HIV over the last 40 years.^[16] The podcast also won Best Factual Podcast.

The Listener’s Choice Award, which received over 232,000 votes from podcast fans, went to true crime podcast RedHanded for the third consecutive year. Podcast Champion – which honours a podcast that has changed the landscape of the medium and made a real impact – went to Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally for their hit podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me.

2023 Nominees and Winners

Winners in bold

Podcast of the Year

• A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to Today^[17]

Listeners' Choice Award

• RedHanded^[17]

Podcast Champion

• My Therapist Ghosted Me^[16]

Best Arts & Culture Podcast

• Classical Fix
• Firecrotch & Normcore: a Succession Podcast
• Folk on Foot
• Inside the World of Ralph & Katie
• Time & Again
• Who Robs a Banksy?

Best Business Podcast

• Behind the Money
• Carolina Herrera Presents: Walk Tall
• How to Own the Room
• Money Talks
• Rethink Moments with Rachel Botsman
• The Big Green Money Show
• The Third Angle

Best Climate Podcast

• As the Season Turns
• Blossom Trees and Burnt-Out Cars
• Buried
• Burn Wild
• The Conversation Weekly
• Waterlands

Best Comedy Podcast

• Bang On It
• Elis James and John Robins
• From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 2)
• Sports Horn
• The Skewer
• French & Saunders: Titting About, Series 3

Best Documentary Podcast

• A Very British Cult
• Acid Dream: The Great LSD Plot
• Burn Wild
• Call Bethel
• I’m Not a Monster Series 2: The Shamima Begum Story
• Pig Iron

Best Entertainment Podcast

• British Scandal
• Elis James and John Robins
• Eureka!
• Help I Sexted My Boss
• NearlyWeds
• RHLSTP with Richard Herring
• Three Little Words
• French & Saunders: Titting About, Series 3

Best Factual Podcast

• A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to Today
• Babbage
• Gangster: The Story of John Palmer
• Life After Prison
• Partygate: The Inside Story
• You, Me and the Big C

Best Fiction Podcast

• Eliza: A Robot Story
• Oliver Twist
• One Five Seven Years
• The Electricity of Every Living Thing
• The System – Series 2 (or how to save the world in 5 easy steps)
• Wooden Overcoats

Best History Podcast

• British Scandal
• Dan Snow’s History Hit
• National Trust Podcast
• Short History Of…
• Sounds Of Black Britain

Best Kids Podcast

• Audiomoves at the zoo
• Dragonfly Tales
• Everything Under the Sun
• In The Beginning
• My Life
• Super Great Kids’ Stories
• The Rez

Best News & Current Affairs Podcast

• 1Xtra TALKS with Richie Brave
• I’m Not a Monster Series 2: The Shamima Begum Story
• Partygate: The Inside Story
• Putin
• The News Agents
• The Tavistock: Inside the gender clinic
• Today in Focus

Best Parenting Podcast

• Dad Still Standing
• Dadvengers Podcast
• Dirty Mother Pukka
• My First Five Years
• The SENDcast
• Truth Be Told: Adoption Stories

Best Sex & Relationships Podcast

• 1Xtra TALKS with Richie Brave
• Brown Girls Do It Too
• Later Dater
• Pressed
• Rainbow Dads Series 2
• The Breakup Monologues
• The Divorce Social

Best Sport Podcast

• Footballers Football Podcast
• Kammy and Ben’s Proper Football Podcast
• Powerplay: The House of Sepp Blatter
• Snookered
• Sports Horn
• The Tennis Podcast

Best True Crime Podcast

• Can I tell you a secret?
• I’m Not a Monster Series 2: The Shamima Begum Story
• Love, Janessa
• Please Protect Abraham
• Vishal
• Who Killed Daphne?

Best Wellbeing Podcast

• Declassified
• Fierce Minds Kind Hearts
• Go Love Yourself
• Persevering: Grief As Told By Young People
• Stopping to Notice
• The Rest Room
• Time & Again

Best Daily Podcast

• Dan Snow’s History Hit
• FT News Briefing
• Sky News Daily
• Stories of our times
• The News Agents
• Today in Focus
• Today In History with The Retrospectors

Best Interview Podcast

• Different – Jenny Pearson
• Girls On Film
• Life Changing
• Masala Podcast
• RHLSTP with Richard Herring
• Where’s Home Really?

Best Network or Publisher

• BBC World Service
• BFBS
• Economist Podcasts
• Financial Times Audio
• History Hit
• Noiser Network

Best New Podcast

• 28ish Days Later
• Black Earth Podcast
• Lights Out
• The Rabbit Hole Detectives
• Ukrainecast
• Where Are You Going?

Best Welsh Language Podcast

• Cwîns efo Mari a Meilir Probcast
• Sgorio
• Sgwrsio
• Yr Hen Iaith

Specialist Award

• Life After Prison
• Masala Podcast
• Persevering: Grief As Told By Young People
• Rainbow Dads Series 2
• The Rest Room
• The Shelina Show

Spotlight Award

• Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
• Partygate: The Inside Story
• That Peter Crouch Podcast
• The News Agents
• Ukrainecast
• Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake

Rising Star

• Chanté Joseph
• Dr Kate Lister
• Hannah Ajala
• Jordan Schwarzenberger
• Sam Tyler
• Talia Augustidis

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4. News: Haymarket Media Group acquires company behind British Podcast Awards . Radio Today . 7 June 2022.
5. Web site: About PodPod . PodPod.
6. Web site: PodPod to be merged into Campaign . 2024-03-11 . www.campaignlive.co.uk . en.
7. Web site: British Podcast Awards Winners . British Podcast Awards . 20 February 2023.
8. Web site: The Guardian UK Culture Podcast | Culture | The Guardian. The Guardian. 2021-05-31. 2021-05-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20210530224615/https://www.theguardian.com/arts/series/culture. live.
9. News: Martin . Roy . Entries now open for British Podcast Awards 2019 . Radio Today . 5 February 2019.
10. Web site: Nomination Announcement with No Such Thing As A Fish . YouTube . 9 April 2019.
11. Web site: The British Podcast Awards 2019 powered by DAX! . YouTube . 20 May 2019.
12. News: Martin . Roy . 5 Live’s Brexitcast wins British Podcast Awards Listeners Choice . Radio Today . 18 May 2019.
13. News: Heathman . Amelia . British Podcast Awards: the nominees revealed for UK’s biggest podcast awards ceremony . Evening Standard . 20 May 2020.
14. Web site: British Podcast Awards 2020 . YouTube . 11 July 2020.
15. Web site: Makari . Reem . British Podcast Awards announces return in September 2023, in partnership with PodPod . Podpod . 21 February 2023.
16. Web site: Results 2023 . British Podcast Awards.
17. Web site: Results 2023 . 20 October 2023 . British Podcast Awards.