Nominations

Below are the nominations for the British Podcast Awards 2018, as chosen by our independent judges. To sample all our nominees, listen to the five-part series we've created for theguardian.com

British Awards 2018

Podcast of the Year 2018

Listeners' Choice Awards 2018

Podcast Champion 2018

Family

Dirty Mother Pukka [iTunes] Mother Pukka

Fun Kids Science Weekly [iTunes] Fun Kids

Once Upon A Time In Zombieville  [iTunes] Bigmouth Audio [for BBC Radio Scotland]

The Adoption [iTunes] The World at One [for BBC Radio 4]

The Discovery Adventures  [iTunes] Land Rover

Best Culture Podcast

Literary Friction  [iTunes] Carrie Plitt and Octavia Bright

Soundtracking with Edith Bowman  [iTunes] Edith Bowman

The Invisible College [iTunes] Cathy FitzGerald [for BBC Radio 4]

The Two Shot Podcast [iTunes] Thomas Griffin and Craig Parkinson

Writer's Routine [iTunes] Dan Simpson

True Crime

Beyond Reasonable Doubt?  [iTunes] Wisebuddah [for BBC Radio 5 Live]

Murder Mile True-Crime Podcast [iTunes] Michael J Buchanan-Dunne

S'laughter: True Crime Podcast [iTunes] Lucy and Emma

The Assassination [iTunes] Owen Bennett-Jones & Neal Razzell [for BBC World Service]

They Walk Among Us [iTunes] Rosanna and Benjamin Fitton

Branded Content supported by Muddy Knees Media

Irreplaceable: A History of England in 100 Places [iTunes] Fresh Air Production for Historic England

Parliament Explained  [iTunes] Fresh Air Production, for UK Parliament

The Discovery Adventures [iTunes] Land Rover

The Penguin Podcast [iTunes] Somethin' Else [for Penguin Random House]

Women in Business [iTunes] NatWest, Pixiu, Acast & ZenithOptimedia

Best Comedy supported by Podiant

A Gay & A NonGay  [iTunes] James Barr & Dan Hudson

Babysitting Trevor  [iTunes] Dot Dot Dot Productions

Beef And Dairy Network Podcast [iTunes] Benjamin Partridge

The Political Party With Matt Forde [iTunes] Matt Forde

This Paranormal Life [iTunes] Rory Powers and Kit Grier

Fiction

Blood Culture [iTunes] Resonance

Five Minute Folklore [iTunes] Bob Shoy

Imaginary Advice [iTunes] Ross Sutherland

Once Upon A Time In Zombieville [iTunes] Bigmouth Audio [for BBC Radio 4

The Discovery Adventures [iTunes] Land Rover

Smartest Podcast

The Represent Award supported by Twitter

Carousel Radio [iTunes] Davot, Fran, Ewan, Jonny and Sam

I Hear Voices [iTunes] BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat

Mostly Lit [iTunes] Alex Reads, Rai, Derek Owusu

Stance Podcast [iTunes] Chrystal Genesis & Heta Fell

The Backstory [iTunes] Claire Mutimer and Suzy Coulson

Best Radio Podcast supported by UK Radioplayer

Elis James & John Robins on Radio X Podcast  [iTunes] Radio X

Fun Kids Science Weekly [iTunes] Fun Kids

Russell Brand on Radio X Podcast [iTunes] Radio X

Short Cuts [iTunes} Falling Tree Productions [for BBC Radio 4]

The Listening Service [iTunes} Tom Service and The Listening Service Team [for BBC Radio 3]

Best New Podcast

Adrift with Geoff Lloyd & Annabel Port  [iTunes] Annabel Port and Geoff Lloyd

My First Time [iTunes] Sam Bonham [for VICE]

Radio Atlas [iTunes] Eleanor McDowall

Reasons To Be Cheerful [iTunes] Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd

The Tip Off  [iTunes] Maeve McClenaghan

Smartest with Whistledown Studios

Blue Planet II: The Podcast  [iTunes] Emily Knight & Becky Ripley [for the BBC]

Stop and Search With Jason Reed  [iTunes] Jason Reed

That Classical Podcast [iTunes] Kelly Harlock and Chris Bland

The Allusionist [iTunes] Helen Zaltzman

The Tip Off [iTunes] Maeve McClenaghan

Sport

Brian Moore's Full Contact [iTunes] Telegraph Media Group

Fight Disciples [iTunes] Fight Disciples

Quickly Kevin, will he score? [iTunes] Chris Scull, Michael Marden & Josh Widdicombe

The Cycling Podcast [iTunes] Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie & Daniel Friebe

Who Are Ya? [iTunes] Ben Cartwright & David Cowlishaw

Acast Innovation Award

Best Interview supported by ipDTL

Griefcast [iTunes] Cariad Lloyd

Homo Sapiens  [iTunes] Will Young and Christopher Sweeney

Perfume Pioneers  [iTunes] Jo Barratt [for Somerset House]

The Allusionist [iTunes] Helen Zaltzman

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast  [iTunes] Stuart Goldsmith

Current Affairs supported by Reportex.io

Brexitcast [iTunes] BBC Radio and Music Production

Reasons To Be Cheerful [iTunes] Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd

Stop and Search With Jason Reed [iTunes] Jason Reed

The Foreign Desk [iTunes] Bill Leuty, Joleen Goffin and Andrew Mueller [for Monocle]

Weekly Economics Podcast  [iTunes] New Economics Foundation

International Award

Entertainment with Sony Music's 4th Floor Creative

Griefcast  [iTunes] Cariad Lloyd

Nothing To Declare Podcast  [iTunes] Unedited

Probably True [iTunes] Scott Flashheart

The Butterfly Effect [iTunes] Jon Ronson [for Audible]

The It's Nice That Podcast [iTunes] Radio Wolfgang

Most Original Podcast, supported by Audible

Once Upon A Time In Zombieville  [iTunes] Bigmouth Audio [for BBC Radio Scotland]

Quake [iTunes] BBC Radio Drama North

Radio Atlas  [iTunes] Eleanor McDowall

The Discovery Adventures  [iTunes] Land Rover

The Poetry Exchange [iTunes] Fiona Lesley Bennett, Michael Shaeffer & Ben Hales