Shortlist 2026 - British Podcast Awards

GENRES

ARTS & CULTURE

Breaking Atoms

Jane Austen's Paper Trail

Legend: The Bruce Springsteen Story

So, Hear Me Out

Soundtracking With Edith Bowman

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

The Rise & Fall of Indie Sleaze

BUSINESS

Boss Class 3

Executive Decisions with Steve Sedgwick

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Mind Your Business With Sara & Helen

The Factory Next Door

The Relentless Optimist

Walking Out Loud

We Built This City: Greater Manchester

COMEDY

Fin vs History

From The Oasthouse The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 4)

Joe and James Fact Up

Mel and Sue Should Know By Now

The Guilty Feminist

The Skewer

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

Beware Book

Death in Dubai (World of Secrets: Season 9)

Half-Life (The History Podcast)

Made In China

The Birth Keepers

The Girlfriends: Untouchable

The Toxic Waste Scandal

EDUCATION

A Little Bit Richer

English Like A Native Podcast

Fun Kids Science Quest

Hold Or Fold

Talking Rubbish

The Curve

The Pension Confident Podcast

ENTERTAINMENT

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Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

FolkLands

ill-advised by Bill Nighy

NewlyParents

Second Act with Ateh Jewel

The Louis Theroux Podcast

This Paranormal Life

What's My Age Again?

FACTUAL

Fun Kids Science Quest

Hold Or Fold

Tech Tonic

The Download

The Story

When Science Finds A Way

Wonderful Life

FICTION

Broken Veil

Heathcliff

Leyline High Rewind

Limelight: The Dentist

Murder on Mars

Project Bläckfisk

The Divide

Wolf Valley

FOOD & DRINK

Bottoms Up! with Alan Carr and Lee Peart

Dish from Waitrose

Heard

Lunchbox Envy

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

The Nightcap

HEALTH & WELLBEING

It's So Loud In Here!

Momfessions

Pete Wicks' Man Made

Reset Your Health with Jamie Oliver

Sliced Bread

The Dementia Perspective

What's My Age Again?

When Science Finds A Way

HISTORY

Assume Nothing: The Radiation Holiday

Back When

Dan Snow's History Hit

Dexplorers

Half-Life (The History Podcast)

Postwar with David Runciman

The House at Number 48

Witness History

IMPACT

Crime Next Door: The Beast of Birkenhead

SEND in the Spotlight

SOIL: Common Ground Series - Somerset House Podcast

Talking Rubbish

The Overturn

The Wargame

Untold: Toxic Legacy

Wild Tales

KIDS

Audiomoves in Space

Dexplorers

Errol's Garden Audio Musical

Judge Bex

Koala Moon

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

This Was Always Me

Your Aunties Could Never

NEWS, POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS

Borderland - UK or United Ireland?

Electoral Dysfunction

Iran: The Latest

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Piers Morgan Uncensored

The Intelligence

The Wargame

Today In Focus

PARENTING

ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

Bitesize Parenting Teens

CBeebies Parenting Helpline

Judged: A Mother's Love

Momfessions

Parentline NI - Your Guide to Parenting

Still Parents Podcast

SEX & RELATIONSHIPS

Atonement: The John Paulk Story

Bisexual Brunch

Sex in Space

The Divorce Podcast

Trans Crush

SPORT

F1: Chequered Flag

Football Weekly

Stick to Cricket

Stick to Football

That Peter Crouch Podcast

The Good, The Bad & The Football

The Ruck

Whistleblowers

TRUE CRIME

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Beware Book

Codename Badger

Coining It

Crime Next Door: The Beast of Birkenhead

Ransom Man

Seventeen Years: The Andrew Malkinson

The Missing Sister

The Poppy Day Bomb

WELSH LANGUAGE

Hanes Mawr Cymru

Rhaglen Cymru

Sgwrsio

Siarad Siop efo Mari a Meilir

Sut i Ddarllen

Sŵntrack gyda Joe

Y Podlediad Dysgu Cymraeg - Pont

FORMATS

DAILY

13 minutes presents: Artemis II

Newscast

The Intelligence

The Story

Today In Focus

Today In History with The Retrospectors

Walk the Pod

INTERVIEW

Dish from Waitrose

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

How to Fail with Elizabeth Day

Pete Wicks' Man Made

The Louis Theroux Podcast

The Mishal Husain Show

The Modern Mann

The Reading Cafe

NETWORK OR PUBLISHER

BBC World Service

Fresh Air

Fun Kids

History Hit

JamPot Productions

Platform Media

Sony Music Podcasts

Unedited

NEW PODCAST

Do I detect a problem?

On Hold

The Art of Adventure

The Mishal Husain Show

The State of Us: The Noah Donohoe Inquest

There's A Lot I Haven't Asked

Top Comment

VIDEO INNOVATION

Sponsored by

Dish from Waitrose

Do I detect a problem?

Game's Gone - The Steve Bracknall Podcast

Get Birding

Joe Marler Will See You Now

Reporting History

The Mishal Husain Show

This Paranormal Life

PEOPLE AND TEAMS

RISING STAR

Anna Wolfe

Eva Brookes

Georgie Styles

Hugh Sheehan

Katie Bridget Murphy

Maya Raichoora

Naomi Bloomstein

BEST HOST(S)

Anna Sinfield

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

Bill Nighy

Edith Bowman

Katherine Ryan

Lily Allen, Miquita Oliver, Jordan Stephens

Louis Theroux

William Hanson and Jordan North

PUBLICLY VOTED

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EDITORS' CHOICE AWARDS

SPECIALIST

Breaking Atoms

Do I detect a problem?

Mind Your Business With Sara & Helen

Momfessions

On Hold

Real with Ric - Life after Loss

Rhaglen Cymru

Sut i Ddarllen

The Art of Adventure

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

The Dementia Perspective

The Overturn

The Reading Cafe

SPOTLIGHT

Bottoms Up! with Alan Carr and Lee Peart

Coining It

Death in Dubai (World of Secrets: Season 9)

Dish from Waitrose

NewlyParents

Postwar with David Runciman

Sliced Bread

The Intelligence

The Louis Theroux Podcast

Today In Focus

What's My Age Again?