Winners 2026 - British Podcast Awards

GENRES

ARTS & CULTURE

Legend: The Bruce Springsteen Story

Breaking Atoms

The Cockney Yiddish Podcast

Jane Austen's Paper Trail

So, Hear Me Out

Soundtracking With Edith Bowman

The Rise & Fall of Indie Sleaze

BUSINESS

The Factory Next Door

Mind Your Business With Sara & Helen

We Built This City: Greater Manchester

Boss Class 3

Executive Decisions with Steve Sedgwick

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

The Factory Next Door

The Relentless Optimist

Walking Out Loud

COMEDY

When The Cops Say No, We Say Yes

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake

Joe and James Fact Up

Fin vs History

From The Oasthouse The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 4)

Mel and Sue Should Know By Now

The Guilty Feminist

The Skewer

DOCUMENTARY

The Birth Keepers

The Toxic Waste Scandal

Anatomy of a Cancellation, for Shadow World

highly commended

Made In China

Beware Book

Half-Life (The History Podcast)

The Girlfriends: Untouchable

World of Secrets: Death in Dubai

EDUCATION

Talking Rubbish

Fun Kids Science Quest

English Like A Native Podcast

A Little Bit Richer

Hold Or Fold

The Curve

The Pension Confident Podcast

ENTERTAINMENT

Sponsored by

NewlyParents

This Paranormal Life

ill-advised by Bill Nighy

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

FolkLands

Second Act with Ateh Jewel

The Louis Theroux Podcast

What's My Age Again?

FACTUAL

Hold Or Fold

Fun Kids Science Quest

Wonderful Life

Tech Tonic

The Download

The Story

When Science Finds A Way

FICTION

Project Bläckfisk

Leyline High Rewind

Wolf Valley

Broken Veil

Heathcliff

Limelight: The Dentist

Murder on Mars

The Divide

FOOD & DRINK

Bottoms Up! with Alan Carr and Lee Peart

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

Heard

Dish from Waitrose

Lunchbox Envy

The Nightcap

HEALTH & WELLBEING

Pete Wicks' Man Made

The Dementia Perspective

Momfessions

It's So Loud In Here!

Reset Your Health with Jamie Oliver

Sliced Bread

What's My Age Again?

When Science Finds A Way

HISTORY

The House at Number 48

Dexplorers

Postwar with David Runciman

Assume Nothing: The Radiation Holiday

Back When

Dan Snow's History Hit

Half-Life (The History Podcast)

Witness History

IMPACT

SEND in the Spotlight

Crime Next Door: The Beast of Birkenhead

Talking Rubbish

SOIL: Common Ground Series - Somerset House Podcast

The Overturn

The Wargame

Untold: Toxic Legacy

Wild Tales

KIDS

Audiomoves in Space

Judge Bex

Today with tonies

Dexplorers

Errol's Garden Audio Musical

Koala Moon

Yoto Daily

LIFESTYLE

Get Birding

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

Get A Grip

highly commended

As The Season Turns

Floating Space

Talking Rubbish

This Was Always Me

Your Aunties Could Never

NEWS, POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS

The Wargame

The Intelligence

Iran: The Latest

Borderland - UK or United Ireland?

Electoral Dysfunction

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Piers Morgan Uncensored

Today In Focus

PARENTING

ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

Momfessions

Still Parents Podcast

Bitesize Parenting Teens

CBeebies Parenting Helpline

Judged: A Mother's Love

Parentline NI - Your Guide to Parenting

SEX & RELATIONSHIPS

Atonement: The John Paulk Story

The Divorce Podcast

Bisexual Brunch

Sex in Space

Trans Crush

SPORT

That Peter Crouch Podcast

Stick to Cricket

F1: Chequered Flag

Football Weekly

Stick to Football

The Good, The Bad & The Football

The Ruck

Whistleblowers

TRUE CRIME

Sponsored by

Coining It

Codename Badger

The Poppy Day Bomb

Beware Book

Crime Next Door: The Beast of Birkenhead

Ransom Man

Seventeen Years: The Andrew Malkinson

The Missing Sister

WELSH LANGUAGE

Hanes Mawr Cymru

Rhaglen Cymru

Sut i Ddarllen

Sgwrsio

Siarad Siop efo Mari a Meilir

Sŵntrack gyda Joe

Y Podlediad Dysgu Cymraeg - Pont

FORMATS

DAILY

The Intelligence

Today In Focus

Walk the Pod

13 minutes presents: Artemis II

Newscast

The Story

Today In History with The Retrospectors

INTERVIEW

Pete Wicks' Man Made

Dish from Waitrose

The Louis Theroux Podcast

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

How to Fail with Elizabeth Day

The Mishal Husain Show

The Modern Mann

The Reading Cafe

NETWORK OR PUBLISHER

BBC World Service

Platform Media

Sony Music Podcasts

Fresh Air

Fun Kids

History Hit

JamPot Productions

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

Get Birding

Dish from Waitrose

This Paranormal Life

Do I detect a problem?

Game's Gone - The Steve Bracknall Podcast

Joe Marler Will See You Now

Reporting History

The Mishal Husain Show

PEOPLE AND TEAMS

RISING STAR

Georgie Styles

Naomi Bloomstein

Eva Brookes

Anna Wolfe

Hugh Sheehan

Katie Bridget Murphy

Maya Raichoora

BEST HOST(S)

Bill Nighy

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

Edith Bowman

Anna Sinfield

Katherine Ryan

Lily Allen, Miquita Oliver, Jordan Stephens

Louis Theroux

William Hanson and Jordan North

PUBLICLY VOTED

LISTENERS' CHOICE, POWERED BY SPOTIFY

Sponsored by

HARD LAUNCH with Dan & Phil

13 Again

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

At Home with the Thomas Bros

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

Dish from Waitrose

Hanging Out with Ant & Dec

It's a Girl Thing

Live, Laugh & Luke... with Luke Hamnett

Lost In Translation

Mom Can't Cook! A DCOM Podcast

Nip Tuck

No Appointment Necessary

Olivia's House with Olivia Attwood

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

The Girls Bathroom

The Jack & Ash Show

Twinhood with Maisie and Ellen Peters

Yoto Daily

EDITORS' CHOICE AWARDS

SPECIALIST

The Dementia Perspective

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 Overturn

The Reading Cafe

SPOTLIGHT

Dish from Waitrose

Bottoms Up! with Alan Carr and Lee Peart

Coining It

NewlyParents

Postwar with David Runciman

Sliced Bread

The Intelligence

The Louis Theroux Podcast

Today In Focus

What's My Age Again?

World of Secrets: Death in Dubai

PODCAST OF THE YEAR

That Peter Crouch Podcast