The shortlist for the British Podcast Awards has been announced with Global, the BBC and Fun Kids nominated for Best Radio Podcast 2020.
Global’s Ellie and Anna Have Issues along with The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X are up against Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review made by Somethin’ Else for BBC Radio 5 Live, The Skewer made by Jon Holmes for BBC Radio 4 and Tunnel 29 made by Helena Merriman for BBC Radio 4.
In the same category, The Santa Daily, aired by Fun Kids and made by Dewaweb is also in the shortlist.
The nominees were announced with a special broadcast on the British Podcast Awards website. Hosted by Rhianna Dhillon, she was joined by Greg James, George The Poet, Annie Mac, Katherine Ryan, Dustin Lance Black, Angela Scanlon, Katie Piper, Christiane Amanpour and Helen Zaltzman.
The nominees were chosen by over 50 judges, with George The Poet, last year’s big winner and this year’s Chair of Judges, overseeing the process.
Other radio nominees include Jazz FM and Union JACK Radio
Here’s the full list. The winners will be announced online on 11th July 2020.
Best Arts and Culture Podcast
Best Pick
The Spontaneity Shop
Classical Fix
BBC Radio 3 Production
Rule of Three
Great Big Owl
Song By Song
Sam Pay and Martin Zaltz Austwick for Stripped Media Network
Selfridges Hot Air presents State of the Arts
Radio Wolfgang
Somerset House
Somerset House
Best Business Podcast
Doing It For The Kids
Doing It For the Kids
Jazz Shapers sponsored by Mishcon De Reya
Jazz FM
Money Talks
Economist Radio
Tales Of Silicon Valley
The Times & Wireless Studios
The Northern Power Women Podcast
Northern Power Women
Squiggly Careers
Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis
Best Comedy Podcast
Brian & Roger
Great Big Owl
Dear Joan and Jericha
Julia Davis & Vicki Pepperdine
Josh Berry’s Fake News
Union JACK radio
Kurupt FM
Audible UK
Mind Canyon
Charlie Kemp & Steve Dawson
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive Productions
Best Branded Podcast
#QueerAF
Jamie Wareham for National Student Pride
DeepMind: The Podcast
Whistledown Productions for DeepMind
Meet Me at the Museum
Art Fund
On the Marie Curie Couch
Marie Curie
Penguin Podcast
Somethin’ Else
The Rough Guide to Everywhere
Reduced Listening for Rough Guides
Best Sports Podcast
Football Inside Out: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019
We Are Grape for COPA90
The Beautiful Brain
Hana Walker-Brown for Audible UK
The Cycling Podcast
Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie & Daniel Friebe
The Exs and Os Podcast
Exs and Os
The Game Changers
Promote PR
The Totally Football Show
Muddy Knees Media for Totally Football Network
Best Current Affairs Podcast
Full Disclosure with James O’Brien
Global Original
Stance Podcast
Chrystal Genesis
The Intelligence
Economist Radio
The Tortoise podcast
Tortoise media
The Week Junior Show
Fun Kids and the Week Junior
Today in Focus
The Guardian
Best Daily Podcast
Beyond Today
BBC Radio 4
Love Island: The Morning After
ITV
The Globalist
Monocle 24
The Rob Auton Daily Podcast
Plosive Productions
The Santa Daily
Fun Kids
Today in Focus
The Guardian
Best Family Podcast
Ask The Nincompoops
Great Big Owl
Breaking Mum & Dad
Anna Williamson
David Walliams’ Marvellous Musical Podcast
Global
Diddy Pod
Ciaran Murtagh, Andrew Barnett Jones & Steve Ryde
The Intended Parent
Fran and Kreena
The Trap Door
Sophie Black
Best Fiction Podcast
Brian & Roger
Great Big Owl
Coexistence
Coex Studios
Fall of the Shah
Steve Waters for BBC World Service
Hag
Thomas Curry, Harriet Poland & Tom Killian for Audible UK
Mockery Manor
Laurence Owen & Lindsay Sharman
Passenger List
Goldhawk Productions & Radiotopia
Best Interview
Trust Issues: The Infected Blood Scandal
Rachel Botsman
Declassified
Michael Coates
Homo Sapiens
Homo Sapiens
How To Kill An Hour
Marcus Bronzy
Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner
Somethin’ Else
Today in Focus
The Guardian
Best Live Episode
Blood on the Tracks
Shooting Shark
Can We Just Ask – Can Anyone Be An Activist?
Annie Clarke & Will Clempner
Nobody Panic
Plosive Productions
Tailenders
TBI Media
Tape Notes
Tape Notes
The Empire Film Podcast
Bauer Media
Best Publisher or Network
The Athletic
BBC World Service
The Guardian
Mags Creative
Somethin’ Else
Studio 71
Best New Podcast supported
Accentricity
Sadie Ryan
Masala Podcast
Sangeeta Pillai for Soul Sutras
Shagged Married Annoyed
Chris and Rosie Ramsey for Avalon Television
The IMO Podcast
Chris & Michelle for The IMO project
The Last Bohemians
House of Hutch
The Log Books
Adam Smith, Tash Walker and Shivani Dave
Best Radio Podcast
Ellie and Anna Have Issues
Ellie & Anna for Global
Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review
Somethin’ Else for BBC Radio 5 Live
The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X
Chris Moyles for Global
The Santa Daily
Devaweb for Fun Kids
The Skewer
Jon Holmes for BBC Radio 4
Tunnel 29
Helena Merriman for BBC Radio 4
Best Sex and Relationships Podcast
QueerAF
Jamie Wareham for National Student Pride
Amaliah
Amaliah
Brown Girls Do It Too
BBC Asian Network
Fucks Given
ComeCurious for Studio71 UK
Masala Podcast
Sangeeta Pillai for Soul Sutras
The Breakup Monologues
Rosie Wilby
Best True Crime Podcast
Paradise
Dan Maudsley for 5 Live & BBC Sounds
The Bellingcat Podcast: MH17
Novel
The Hurricane Tapes
Steve Crossman & Joel Hammer for BBC World Service
The Last Days of August
Jon Ronson & Lina Misitzis for Audible UK
The Missing Cryptoqueen
Georgia Catt & Jamie Bartlett for BBC Sounds
Unheard: The Fred and Rose West Tapes
Somethin’ Else
Best Wellbeing Podcast
Declassified
Michael Coates
GABA
Adam Martin
Hooked: The Unexpected Addicts
BBC Radio 5 Live
No Really, I’m Fine
Reach
Rainbow Dads
Richard and Nicholas
The Sound of Anger
Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions
The Bullseye Award
After: Surviving Sexual Assault
BBC Sounds
Strong Manchester Women
Vic Elizabeth Turnbull at MIC Media
The Investor’s Guide to China
Fidelity International
The Offensive
Stakhanov
Things Unseen: Entombed
CTVC
This Is Spoke
Penguin Random House UK, Fremantle & BMG
The Spotlight Award
Deliciously Ella
Deliciously Ella for Mags Creative
Elis James and John Robins
Audio Always for BBC Radio 5 Live
Happy Mum Happy Baby
Giovanna Fletcher
My Dad Wrote A Porno
Jamie, James, Alice & Rocky
Table Manners with Jessie Ware
Jessie Ware
The Guilty Feminist
The Spontaneity Shop
Best Entertainment Podcast
George Ezra & Friends
Help I Sexted My Boss
William Hanson and Jordan North for Audio Always
No Country for Young Women
Radio 1 & 1Xtra Production for BBC Sounds
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Plosive Productions
Sam Walker’s Desert Diaries
Sam Walker
Something Rhymes With Purple
Somethin’ Else
The Creativity Award
David Walliams’ Marvellous Musical Podcast
Global
Fake Heiress
BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4
Mind Canyon
Charlie Kemp & Steve Dawson
Where is My Mind?
Niall Breslin
The Sound of Anger
Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions
The Skewer
Jon Holmes for BBC Radio 4
Smartest Podcast
Food Actually
Chalk & Blade and Pushkin Industries for Luminary Media
Power Corrupts
Brian Klaas
Tales of Silicon Valley
The Times & Wireless Studios
The Listening Service
Radio 3 Production
The Sound of Anger
Queen Mary centre for the History of the Emotions
The Tip Off
Maeve McClenaghan
Best Podcast in the Welsh Language
Dwy Iaith, Un Ymennydd
Elis James, produced by Alpha for BBC Cymru
Siarad Secs Astud
BBC Cymru
Yr Haclediad
Bryn Salisbury, Lestyn Lloyd and Sioned Mills
Acast Moment Of The Year
#QueerAF
Jamie Wareham for National Student Pride
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
No Such Thing As A Fish
No Such Thing As A Fish
RHLSTP
Sky Potato, Go Faster Stripe & Fuzz Productions
Tunnel 29
Helena Merriman for BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds
Ways to Change the World
Channel 4 News
SPECIAL AWARDS ANNOUNCED ON THE NIGHT:
Listeners’ Choice Award
Audioboom Podcast of the Year
The Spotify Podcast Champion
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Posted on Tuesday, May 19th, 2020 at 3:54 pm by Roy Martin