British Podcast Awards


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 and launched the Irish Podcasts Awards in 2021.
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.
PodPod, a publication about the craft and business of podcasting launched the previous year, was announced as media partner of the British Podcast Awards in 2023, before responsibility for overseeing the awards was transferred to Campaign.

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.

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 -
  • 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.
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.

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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