Comedians up for British Podcast Awards

Richard Herring; Ed Gamble and James Acaster; Chris and Rosie Ramsey; the Kurupt FM crew; Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine; and Elis James and John Robins are among the comedians shortlisted in the year’s British Podcast Awards.

Gamble and Acaster’s Off Menu programme, in which they ask guests to devise their perfect meal,  has been nominated in two categories: for best entertainment and best comedy podcast 

The comedy shortlist comprises:

• Brian & Roger, created by  Harry Peacock and Dan Skinner, about friends who met at a support meeting for divorced men. 
• Dear Joan and Jericha, the spoof counselling podcast with Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine
• Josh Berry's Fake News from Union Jack radio
• Kurupt FM, from the People Just Do Nothing team
• Mind Canyon, an improvised comedy podcast devised by Charlie Kemp and Steve Dawson 
• Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Mind Canyon is also up for the creativity award.

Nominees for the Spotlight award for ‘podcasts with sizeable audiences bringing the medium into the mainstream’, include Elis James and John Robins’s Radio 5 Live podcast,  My Dad Wrote A Porno and The Guilty Feminist with Deborah Frances White.

James is also up for best Welsh language podcast for Dwy Iaith, Un Ymennydd – Two Languages, One Brain – in which he explores the links between language and culture.

Comedians nominated in other categories include the Rob Auton Daily Podcast, which is up for best daily podcast against such heavyweights as Beyond Today, the spin-off from Radio 4’s flagship news programme, and Today in Focus form The Guardian.

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast and No Such Thing As A Fish are both up for moment of the year – although what that moment is has not been cited – while  Shagged Married Annoyed with Chris and Rosie Ramsey has been shortlisted for best new podcast.

Rule Of Three, in which writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris talk to others who make comedy about something funny that they love,  has been nominated for best arts and culture podcast.

Nobody Panic with comedians Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates has been shortlisted for best live podcast, and Rosie Wilby’s  Breakup Monologues is in the running for best sex and relationship podcast.

Ellie Taylor’s Heart FM podcast with Anna Whitehouse, Ellie and Anna Have Issues, is up for best radio podcast alongside Jon Holmes’s experimental Radio 4 comedy, The Skewer, which is also in the running for the creativity award

The winners will be revealed on July 11.

Here’s the full list of nominees: 

Best Arts and Culture Podcast

Best Pick from The Spontaneity Shop
Classical Fix from BBC Radio 3
Rule of Three
Selfridges Hot Air presents State of the Arts
Somerset House

Best Business Podcast

Doing It For The Kids
Jazz Shapers from Jazz FM
Money Talks from Economist Radio
Tales Of Silicon Valley from The Times
The Northern Power Women Podcast

Best Comedy Podcast

Brian & Roger
Dear Joan and Jericha with Julia Davis & Vicki Pepperdine
Josh Berry's Fake News from  Union JACK radio
Kurupt FM
Mind Canyon from Charlie Kemp & Steve Dawson
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Best Branded Podcast

#QueerAF
DeepMind: The Podcast
Meet Me at the Museum
On the Marie Curie Couch
Penguin Podcast
The Rough Guide to Everywhere

Best Sports Podcast

Football Inside Out: FIFA Women's World Cup 2019
The Beautiful Brain
The Cycling Podcast
The Exs and Os Podcast
The Game Changers
The Totally Football Show

Best Current Affairs Podcast

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Stance Podcast
The Intelligence from Economist Radio
The Tortoise podcast
The Week Junior Show
Today in Focus from The Guardian

Best Daily Podcast

Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4
Love Island: The Morning After
The Globalist from Monocle 24
The Rob Auton Daily Podcast
The Santa Daily
Today in Focus form The Guardian

Best Family Podcast

Ask The Nincompoops
Breaking Mum & Dad
David Walliams' Marvellous Musical Podcast
Diddy Pod
The Intended Parent
The Trap Door

Best Fiction Podcast

Brian & Roger
Coexistence
Fall of the Shah
Hag
Mockery Manor
Passenger List 

Best Interview

Trust Issues: The Infected Blood Scandal from Rachel Botsman
Declassified from Michael Coates
Homo Sapiens
How To Kill An Hour from Marcus Bronzy
Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner
Today in Focus from The Guardian

Best Live Episode

Blood on the Tracks
Can We Just Ask - Can Anyone Be An Activist?
Nobody Panic with Stevie Martin and Tessa Coates
Tailenders
Tape Notes
The Empire Film Podcast

Best Publisher or Network

The Athletic
BBC World Service
The Guardian
Mags Creative
Somethin' Else
Studio 71

Best New Podcast

Accentricity  from Sadie Ryan
Masala Podcast
Shagged Married Annoyed with Chris and Rosie Ramsey
The IMO Podcast
The Last Bohemians
The Log Books

Best Radio Podcast

Ellie and Anna Have Issues
Kermode and Mayo's Film Review
The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X
The Santa Daily
The Skewer by Jon Holmes for BBC Radio 4
Tunnel 29

Best Sex and Relationships Podcast

#QueerAF
Amaliah
Brown Girls Do It Too|
Fucks Given
Masala Podcast
The Breakup Monologues with Rosie Wilby

Best True Crime Podcast

Paradise
The Bellingcat Podcast: MH17
The Hurricane Tapes
The Last Days of August
The Missing Cryptoqueen
Unheard: The Fred and Rose West Tapes 

Best Wellbeing Podcast

Declassified with Michael Coates
GABA with Adam Martin
Hooked: The Unexpected Addicts
No Really, I'm Fine
Rainbow Dads
The Sound of Anger

The Bullseye Award

After: Surviving Sexual Assault
Strong Manchester Women
The Investor's Guide to China
The Offensive
Things Unseen: Entombed
This Is Spoke

The Spotlight Award

Deliciously Ella
Elis James and John Robins
Happy Mum Happy Baby with Giovanna Fletcher
My Dad Wrote A Porno
Table Manners with Jessie Ware
The Guilty Feminist with Deborah Frances White

Best Entertainment Podcast

George Ezra & Friends
Help I Sexted My Boss
No Country for Young Women
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Sam Walker's Desert Diaries
Something Rhymes With Purple

The Creativity Award

David Walliams' Marvellous Musical Podcast
Fake Heiress
Mind Canyon
Where is My Mind?
The Sound of Anger
The Skewer by Jon Holmes for BBC Radio 4 

Smartest Podcast

Food Actually
Power Corrupts
Tales of Silicon Valley
The Listening Service
The Sound of Anger
The Tip Off

 Best Podcast in the Welsh Language

Dwy Iaith, Un Ymennydd with Elis James
Siarad Secs Astud
Yr Hacledia

Moment Of The Year

#QueerAF
Happy Place with Fearne Cotton
No Such Thing As A Fish
RHLSTP
Tunnel 29
Ways to Change the World from Channel 4 News

Published: 19 May 2020