Longlist 2026 - British Podcast Awards

GENRES

ARTS & CULTURE

Book Quest

Books on the Beach

Breaking Atoms

Folk on Foot

Girls On Film

Intersections: Silicon Valley

Jane Austen's Paper Trail

Legend: The Bruce Springsteen Story

Mag Hags

Scarred For Life

So, Hear Me Out

SOIL: Common Ground Series - Somerset House Podcast

Soundtracking With Edith Bowman

That's Not How It Went Down

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

The Failing Writers Podcast

The Problematic Gaze

The Rise & Fall of Indie Sleaze

The Secret Life of Songs

BUSINESS

Being Freelance

Boss Class 3

Daybreak Europe

Executive Decisions with Steve Sedgwick

Failing Out Loud

How To Own The Room

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Make Planning Make Sense

Mind Your Business With Sara & Helen

Oxford+

Places She Shapes

Scam Detectors

Talk Auto

The Factory Next Door

The Relentless Optimist

The Times Tech Podcast

Walking Out Loud

We Built This City: Greater Manchester

What The Fraud?

Women's Business

COMEDY

Elis James and John Robins

Evil Animals

Fin vs History

Frank Off The Radio

From The Oasthouse The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 4)

Game's Gone - The Steve Bracknall Podcast

Joe and James Fact Up

Listen Through the Brown Window

Mel and Sue Should Know By Now

Pirate Material

Shagged Married Annoyed

The Big Pitch

The Guilty Feminist

The Last Laugh: The Last One Laughing Podcast

The Skewer

This Paranormal Life

When The Cops Say No, We Say Yes

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake

DOCUMENTARY

Anatomy of a Cancellation, for Shadow World

Assume Nothing - The Stormont Spy Ring

Beware Book

Charlene: Somebody Knows Something

Death in Dubai (World of Secrets: Season 9)

Everything is Fake (And Nobody Cares)

FOUNDLING

Half-Life (The History Podcast)

Love and Radio: Blood Memory

Made In China

Palestinians in Paraguay

Pipeline: Left to Die

The Birth Keepers

The Girlfriends: Untouchable

The History Podcast: The Fort

The Smuggler

The Toxic Waste Scandal

The Walkers: The real salt path

The Wargame

EDUCATION

A Little Bit Richer

English Like A Native Podcast

From Newcastle

Fun Kids Science Quest

Hold Or Fold

Scam Detectors

Talking Rubbish

The Curve

The Pension Confident Podcast

The We Society

ENTERTAINMENT

Boj & Kate Have A Lot On Their Plate

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

Elis James and John Robins

FolkLands

Great Company

ill-advised by Bill Nighy

Lost in Translation

Mad, Sad & Bad

NewlyParents

Olivia's House with Olivia Attwood

Second Act with Ateh Jewel

Shagged Married Annoyed

The Buckley's Podcast

The Guilty Feminist

The Louis Theroux Podcast

The Luxury Podcast

The Rise & Fall of Indie Sleaze

This Paranormal Life

Topthree

What's My Age Again?

FACTUAL

A Carnival of Animals

Babbage

BatChat

Believe in People: Addiction, Recovery & Stigma

Curious Cases

Fun Kids Science Quest

Future Tense with Richard Ayoade & Warwick Davies

Hold Or Fold

How to Change the World: The History of Invention

In Two Minds

Making Tracks Railway Podcast

Tech Tonic

The Artificial Human

The Download

The Story

The Wargame

Top Comment

When Science Finds A Way

Wonderful Life

World of Sharks

FICTION

Broken Veil

Buzz: The Man & The Moon

Heathcliff

Leyline High Rewind

Limelight: The Dentist

Lost Terminal

Murder on Mars

O Now

Project Bläckfisk

Ranger Rae and the Wildlifers

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Spores

The Chronicles of Wild Hollow: Highperion Day (Vol. 1)

The Divide

The Kingdom Sleeps

The Wandsworth Way

Wolf Valley

FOOD & DRINK

Bottoms Up! with Alan Carr and Lee Peart

Dish

Heard

Lunchbox Envy

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

The Nightcap

HEALTH & WELLBEING

Complex

In Two Minds

Is It Hot In Here?

It's So Loud In Here!

Kind

Momfessions

No Appointment Necessary with Dr Amir Khan and Cherry Healey

Pete Wicks' Man Made

Real with Ric - Life after Loss

Reset Your Health with Jamie Oliver

Science Weekly

Sliced Bread

Still Parents Podcast

The Dementia Perspective

The Oral Health Podcast

The Woman's Hour Guide to Life

What's My Age Again?

When Science Finds A Way

HISTORY

After Dark

Assume Nothing: The Radiation Holiday

Back When

British Scandal

Dan Snow's History Hit

Dexplorers

FolkLands

Geekstorians

Half-Life (The History Podcast)

How Did We Get Here? Israel and the Palestinians

Mistresses with Jameela Jamil & Dr Kate Lister

Postwar with David Runciman

The Ancients

The Bomb: Kennedy and Khrushchev

The History Bureau: Putin and the Apartment Bombs

The House at Number 48

Titanic: Ship of Dreams

War Hall: A Theatre of the Mind

Witness History

IMPACT

A Question of Science

Autism Unpacked

Black Earth

Crime Next Door: The Beast of Birkenhead

Inside Energy

Living Histories

Missing In The Amazon

SEND in the Spotlight

SOIL: Common Ground Series - Somerset House Podcast

Talking Rubbish

The International Care Collective

The Missing Sister

The Overturn

The Wargame

Trapped: The IPP Prisoner Scandal

Untold: Toxic Legacy

Verandah Talk

Wild Tales

Women Beyond Walls

KIDS

Audiomoves in Space

Dexplorers

Errol's Garden Audio Musical

Judge Bex

Koala Moon: Kids Bedtime Stories & Sleep Stories for Kids Podcast

Ranger Rae and the Wildlifers

Silly News with Samantha Baines

Snoop & Sniffy

Supertato: The Tato Radio Show

The Fourth Bookmark

The Week Junior Show

Today with tonies

Yoto Daily

LIFESTYLE

As The Season Turns

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

Floating Space

Get A Grip

Get Birding

Talking Rubbish

The Atlantic Canada Podcast

The Outdoors Fix

This Was Always Me

Travel Secrets by Tanya Rose

We Talk To The Dead

Your Aunties Could Never

NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS

American Friction

Borderland - UK or United Ireland?

Disorder

Don't Say A Word

Electoral Dysfunction

Flesh and Code

Holyrood Sources

Iran: the Latest

Life of the Party

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Palace Confidential

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Strong Message Here

The BelTel

The Intelligence

The Interface

The Tea with Myriam François

The Trial

The Wargame

Today In Focus

PARENTING

ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

Adopters Anonymous

Autism Unpacked

Bitesize Parenting Teens

CBeebies Parenting Helpline

I'm Not Judging, But...

Judged: A Mother's Love

Momfessions

Parent Unplugged

Parentline NI - Your Guide to Parenting

Still Parents Podcast

The Teen Commandments

SEX & RELATIONSHIPS

Atonement: The John Paulk Story

Bisexual Brunch

Sex in Space

The Divorce Podcast

Trans Crush

SPORT

F1: Chequered Flag

Football Weekly

For The Love of Cricket

Game's Gone - The Steve Bracknall Podcast

Golf Is Ruining My Life

Hospital Ball

Pat Brown & Dave Allen Discuss...

RYA 150 Podcast

Stick to Cricket

Stick to Football

SwimOut

That Peter Crouch Podcast

The Climate of Sport

The Good, The Bad & The Football

The Ruck

Whistleblowers

Wild Swimming Wangers

TRUE CRIME

Beware Book

Codename Badger

Coining It

Crime Next Door: The Ballad of Big Mags

Crime Next Door: The Beast of Birkenhead

Cyber Hack: Evil Corp

Fraudacious

Love and Radio: Blood Memory

Matched with a Predator

Murder in the Masai Mara

Natalie McNally Murder: Youtuber on Trial

Off Duty

Ransom Man

Seventeen Years: The Andrew Malkinson

The Darkest Web

The Girlfriends: Jailhouse Lawyer

The Missing Sister

The Mystic and the Mayor

The Poppy Day Bomb

The Trial

WELSH LANGUAGE

Hanes Mawr Cymru

Rhaglen Cymru

Sgwrsio

Siarad Siop efo Mari a Meilir

Sut i Ddarllen

Sŵntrack gyda Joe

FORMATS

DAILY

13 minutes presents: Artemis II

Daybreak Europe

Newscast

Scotcast

The Intelligence

The Story

Today In Focus

Today In History with The Retrospectors

Walk the Pod

INTERVIEW

Dish

Experience is Everything

How Do You Cope? ... with John Robins (Richard Osman)

How to Fail with Elizabeth Day

Kind

Lives Less Ordinary

Momfessions

On Hold

Pete Wicks' Man Made

Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett

Rylan: How To Be In Love

Scarred For Life

The Lede

The Louis Theroux Podcast

The Master Investor Podcast with Wilfred Frost

The Mishal Husain Show

The Modern Mann

The Reading Cafe

Y Podlediad Dysgu Cymraeg - Pont

NETWORK OR PUBLISHER

BBC World Service

Economist Podcasts+

Fresh Air

Fun Kids

Hamlin Studios

History Hit

JamPot Productions

Platform Media

Podomedy

Sony Music Podcasts

Unedited

NEW PODCAST

Bold Politics

Do I detect a problem?

Fame Under Fire

Finding Your Pink

Kind

On Hold

Scotcast

Speed. Aggression. Surprise. The Untold Truth Behind the Story.

The Art of Adventure

The Jack & Ash Show

The Mishal Husain Show

The State of Us: The Noah Donohoe Inquest

There's A Lot I Haven't Asked

Top Comment

Visionaries

Wanging On with Graham Norton and Maria McErlane

When The Cops Say No, We Say Yes

VIDEO INNOVATION

Bitesize Parenting Teens

Dish

Do I detect a problem?

Game's Gone - The Steve Bracknall Podcast

Get Birding

Joe Marler Will See You Now

Reporting History

The Daily T

The Girls Bathroom

The Mishal Husain Show

This Paranormal Life

Ukraine: the Latest

PEOPLE AND TEAMS

RISING STAR

Alex Berteanu

Anna Wolfe

Eva Brookes

Georgie Styles

Hugh Sheehan

Iona Bain

Issey Walton

Katie Bridget Murphy

Linda Du

May, Marie & Mel

Maya Raichoora

Naomi Bloomstein

BEST HOST(S)

Anna Sinfield

Annie Kelly, Helen Pidd and Nosheen Iqbal, and Lucy Hough

Bill Nighy

Charlie Hedges & Holly Hagan-Blyth

Deborah Frances-White

Dr Jeff Foster

Edith Bowman

Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann

James Deacon

Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

Kate Moryoussef

Katherine Ryan

Lily Allen, Miquita Oliver, Jordan Stephens

Louis Theroux

Rosie Moss

Rylan Clark

Sara Davies & Helen Goddard

Wilfred Frost

William Hanson and Jordan North

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