2020 British Podcast Awards Nominees

Earlier this afternoon, The British Podcast Awards announced their nominees for this year including five new categories: Best Daily Podcast, Best Business Podcast, Best Live Episode, Best Network and Best Wellbeing Podcast.

Best Arts and Culture Podcast supported by Pod Bible

Best Pick – The Spontaneity Shop

Classical Fix – BBC Radio 3 Production

Rule of Three – Great Big Owl

Selfridges Hot Air presents State of the Arts – Radio Wolfgang

Somerset House – Somerset House

Best Business Podcast

Doing It For The Kids – Doing It For the Kids

Jazz Shapers sponsored by Mishcon De Reya – Jazz FM

Money Talks – Economist Radio

Tales Of Silicon Valley – The Times & Wireless Studios

The Northern Power Women Podcast – Northern Power Women

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

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 – Reduced Listening for Rough Guides

Best Sports Podcast supported by Audioboom

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 & Daniel Friebe

The Exs and Os Podcast – Exs and Os

The Game Changers – Promote PR

The Totally Football Show – Muddy Knees Media for Totally Football Network

Best Current Affairs Podcast

Full Disclosure with James O’Brien – Global Original

Stance Podcast – Chrystal Genesis

The Intelligence  – Economist Radio

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  – BBC Radio 4

Love Island: The Morning After – ITV

The Globalist – Monocle 24

The Rob Auton Daily Podcast – Plosive Productions

The Santa Daily – Fun Kids

Today in Focus – The Guardian

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

The Intended Parent – Fran and Kreena

The Trap Door – Sophie Black

Best Fiction Podcast

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

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

Tape Notes – Tape Notes

The Empire Film Podcast – Bauer Media

Best Publisher or Network 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

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 supported by Radioplayer

Ellie and Anna Have Issues – Ellie & Anna for Global

Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review – Somethin’ Else for BBC Radio 5 Live

The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X – Chris Moyles for Global

The Santa Daily – Devaweb for Fun Kids

The Skewer – Jon Holmes for BBC Radio 4

Tunnel 29 – Helena Merriman for BBC Radio 4

Best Sex and Relationships Podcast

QueerAF – Jamie Wareham for National Student Pride

Amaliah – Amaliah

Brown Girls Do It Too – BBC Asian Network

Fucks Given – ComeCurious for Studio71 UK

Masala Podcast – Sangeeta Pillai for Soul Sutras

The Breakup Monologues – Rosie Wilby

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 Wellbeing Podcast

Declassified – Michael Coates

GABA – Adam Martin

Hooked: The Unexpected Addicts – BBC Radio 5 Live

No Really, I’m Fine – Reach

Rainbow Dads – Richard and Nicholas

The Sound of Anger – Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions

The Bullseye Award supported by Blue Microphones

After: Surviving Sexual Assault – 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

The Spotlight Award supported by DAX

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

George Ezra & Friends

Help I Sexted My Boss – William Hanson and Jordan North for Audio Always

No Country for Young Women – Radio 1 & 1Xtra Production for 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

The Creativity Award

David Walliams’ Marvellous Musical Podcast – Global

Fake Heiress – BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4

Mind Canyon – Charlie Kemp & Steve Dawson

Where is My Mind? – Niall Breslin

The Sound of Anger – Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions

The Skewer – Jon Holmes for BBC Radio 4

Smartest Podcast supported by Rethink Audio

Food Actually – Chalk & Blade and Pushkin Industries for Luminary Media

Power Corrupts – Brian Klaas

Tales of Silicon Valley – The Times & Wireless Studios

The Listening Service – Radio 3 Production

The Sound of Anger  – Queen Mary centre for the History of the Emotions

The Tip Off – Maeve McClenaghan

Best Podcast in the Welsh Language

Dwy Iaith, Un Ymennydd – Elis James, produced by Alpha for BBC Cymru

Siarad Secs Astud – BBC Cymru

Yr Haclediad – Bryn Salisbury, Lestyn Lloyd and Sioned Mills

Acast 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 for BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds

Ways to Change the World – Channel 4 News

Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees, especially those we’ve had the privilege of interviewing, writing about, and listening to as a part of Pod Bible.