British Podcast Awards 2021 – Nominations Announced

It’s that time of year again! The nominations for the 2021 British Podcast Awards, powered by Amazon Music, were announced today in a fancy streamed video presented by Hannah and Suruthi from Redhanded. As well as the extensive list of nominations, featuring appearances from Miranda Sawyer, Alison Spittle, Ramel London and BPA co-founder Matt Deegan, it was also announced that the 2021 awards will be held on Saturday 10th July at Brockwell Park, involving an outdoor picnic kind of vibe to ensure the event will be entirely covid secure. With Poppy Jay (Brown Girls Do It Too), Jordan North and William Hanson (Help I Sexted My Boss) taking on hosting duties, it’s sure to be a wonderful day!

But you’re not here to read all about that, you want us to cut to the chase and tell you about the nominations! Well here they are in all their glory. Brace yourselves…

Best Comedy Podcast supported by Stitcher

• Beef & Dairy Network
• Dear Joan & Jericho
• Hidden Ireland
• Kurupt FM
• Poppy Hillstead Has Entered The Chat
• SeanceCast

Best Arts & Culture Podcast supported by Create Productions

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

Best Branded Content supported by Acast Creative

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

Best Lockdown Podcast supported by Amazon Music

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

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

Best Entertainment 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 International Podcast supported by Podfront UK

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

Best Interview supported by us! (Pod Bible)

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

Best New Podcast supported by Audible
(apparently there were over 250 entries for this category this year!)

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

Best Sex & Relationships Podcast

• A Gay and a NonGay
• Brown Girls Do It Too
• Masala Podcast
• Millennial Love
• Sexpots
• Tough Talks from Hits Radio Pride

Best Radio Podcast

• Danny Wallace’s Important Broadcast Podcast
• Fun Kids’ Story Explorers
• Homeschool History
• The Skewer
• Slide Into My Podcast
• The Sista Collective Season 3

Smartest Podcast supported by Podfollow

• Peter 2.0
• Maddie’s Sound Explorers
• The Secret Life of Prisons
• Stories of Scotland
• 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
• The High Performance Podcast
• F1: Beyond The Grid
• Fight Disciples
• GIANT – A Spotify Original

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 Business Podcast supported by Wondery

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

Best Podcast in the Welsh Language

• Clera
• Dewr
• Gwrachod Heddiw
• Nawr yw’r Awr
• Y Coridor Ansicrwydd
• Y Diflaniad

Acast Moment of the Year 

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

The Bullseye Award supported by Global

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

Creativity Award supported by Audible

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

Best Network or Publisher

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

The Spotlight Award supported by Global

• Alan Partridge – From the Oasthouse
• French & Saunders: Titting About
• Grounded With Louis Theroux
• Happy Mum Happy Baby
• The Isolation Tapes
• The YUNGBLUD Podcast

The Listeners Choice Award is voted for by you, the listeners, and is open for votes now!

….and of course, each of the individual category winners will be entered into the hat for the chance to be names PODCAST OF THE YEAR supported by Sony Music’s 4th Floor Creative!

Finally, as well as the above, the BPAs will also be crowning the Spotify Podcast Champion

Massive congratulations to all the nominees in what has been yet another sterling year for the industry. There’s no doubt the quantity of shows has risen exponentially over the past year, but it’s clear to see the quality is still there too. See you on July 10th!