British Podcast Awards 2025: Full list of nominees

Comedian Maisie Adam will host this year's awards ceremony in October

You listen to them while you're cooking, cleaning and commuting... now the country's best podcasts from the past 12 months are set to be officially recognised.

The British Podcast Awards 2025 nominees were announced on Thursday, with shows hosted by David Tennant, Louis Theroux, Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver all receiving nods, alongside Angela Hartnett and Nick Grimshaw, Elis James and John Robins.

The awards, chaired by BBC Radio 4 Today's Emma Barnett, celebrate genres including arts and culture, documentary, comedy, true crime, parenting and health.

The ceremony will take place at the Indigo at London's O2 Arena on Thursday 2 October, hosted by comedian Maisie Adam.

Last year's ceremony saw Michael Mosley's widow, Dr Clare Bailey Mosley, accept an award on his behalf, three months after his death, as the doctor was inducted into the event's hall of fame for his podcast Just One Thing.

Voting for this year's Listeners' Choice award opened on Thursday as well, with the public invited to take part until Friday 29 August.

The nominees for the spotlight and specialist awards will be revealed soon, organisers said.

Here are the 2025 nominations in full:

Arts and culture

• Facing the Music - Overcoat Media for BBC Radio 3

• Folk on Foot - Potholder Productions Ltd

• Intersections: Los Angeles - Rethink Audio Ltd

• Sonic Fields – Freelance Sam Tyler

• Soul Music - BBC Audio Bristol for BBC Radio 4

• The Lost Archives of James Baldwin - Sea Salt and Mango

Best host(s)

• Angela Hartnett and Nick Grimshaw - Cold Glass Productions

• Dan Snow - History Hit

• David Tennant - Sony Music Entertainment & No Mystery

• Femi Oke - Audible

• Helen Pidd - The Guardian

• Louis Theroux – Mindhouse Productions in collaboration with Spotify

• Luke Jones - Audio Always

• Zak and Jules - Prison Radio Association

Business

• Grounded: A Climate Startup Journey - Restord

• Money Talks - The Economist

• The Daybreak Europe Podcast - Bloomberg

• The Factory Next Door - The Factory Next Door

• The Third Angle - 18Sixty Ltd

• The Times Tech Podcast - The Times

• Wedding Pros Who are Ready to Grow - BeccaPountney.com

Comedy

• Elis James and John Robins - Audio Always for BBC Radio 5 Live

• Where There's a Will, There's a Wake - Sony Music Entertainment

• Sound Heap - Lead Mojo

• The Skewer – An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4

• This Paranormal Life - R&K Media

• Help I Sexted My Boss - Audio Always

Daily

• Newscast - BBC News

• The Daybreak Europe Podcast - Bloomberg

• The Intelligence/The Weekend Intelligence - The Economist

• The News Agents - Global

• The Story - The Times and The Sunday Times

• Today in Focus - The Guardian

• Yoto Daily - Yoto

Documentary

• Cursed – Audible

• Dead Man Running - A BBC Scotland production for BBC Sounds

• Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion – BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Radio 4

• Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring - The Citizens

• Stalked - BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Sounds and Radio 5 Live

• The Trapped - ITN

Education

• Fun Kids Science Weekly - Fun Kids

• Hold Or Fold - Prison Radio Association

• LSE iQ - London School of Economics and Political Science

• What's Your Map? with Jerry Brotton - Whistledown Productions

Entertainment

• Elis James and John Robins - Audio Always for BBC Radio 5 Live

• Help I Sexted My Boss - Audio Always

• Inbetween Man - Improvise Event Limited

• The Guilty Feminist - The Spontaneity Shop Enterprises

• The Traitors: Uncloaked - Platform Media/Listen for BBC Sounds

• This Paranormal Life - R&K Media

• Vogue & Amber - Global

Factual

• Babbage - The Economist

• Believe in People: Addiction, Recovery & Stigma - Change Grow Live (ReNew)

• Beyond Five Senses - Kinda Studios

• In Dark Corners series 2 – BBC Audio Scotland for Radio 4

• Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring - The Citizens

• The Coming Storm (series 2) - BBC Long Form Audio production for BBC Radio 4.

• Waterlands - 18Sixty

Fiction

• Broken Veil - Cheese & Pickle Productions

• COLD TAPES - Free Turn

• Limelight: Discretion - Hat Trick Productions for BBC Radio 4

• Last Dance - Blackabbey Productions

• Limelight: Money Gone - Naked Productions for BBC Radio 4

• The Mysterious Affair at Styles – A Poirot Mystery' - Audible

• Limelight: The Skies Are Watching - Goldhawk Productions for BBC Radio 4

• This Paranormal Life - R&K Media

Health and wellbeing

• Echoes of Harm - WeissComm Partners

• Hack your Body, Heal your Mind - Audible

• Inbetween Man - Improvise Event

• Jon Holmes Says The C Word – An unusual production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

• My life with dementia - Dementia UK

• Why Mums Don't Jump - Helen Ledwick

History

• Assume Nothing: Killer Dust - BBC NI for BBC Radio 4

• Sing it Pink - Aunt Nell

• The Guernsey Deportees - OG Podcasts

• The History Podcast - The Brighton Bomb - Walk on Air Films for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

• The Spy Who - Wondery

• Titanic: Ship of Dreams - Noiser

• Weird in the Wade - Weird in the Wade

Impact

• A Slice of Bread and Butter - The Bread and Butter Thing

• Movers & Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson's - RCJ Media

• Oceans: Life Under Water - Crowd Network

• On the Side of Humanity - Amnesty International

• QueerAF - QueerAF CIC

• The Culture Colonel - BFBS

• Shadow World: The Willpower Detectives – BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4

Interview

• Believe in People: Addiction, Recovery & Stigma - Change Grow Live (ReNew)

• Everything I Know About Me – DMG Podcasts

• OUTCAST WORLD - 7th Planet Media Services

• The Hidden 20% - The Hidden 20%

• The Louis Theroux Podcast - Mindhouse Productions in collaboration with Spotify

• The News Agents - Special episode: Inside the murky world of Facebook - Global

• Widowed AF - WIDOWED AF

Kids

• Checkpoint Kids Bedtime Stories - Magdoos Media

• Evie Asks... How Are You? - Audio Always

• The Conversation's Curious Kids - The Conversation UK

• The Hey Duggee Pupcast - Chalk and Blade for Cbeebies and BBC Sounds

• The Reading Cafe - The Reading Cafe

• Yoto Daily - Yoto

Lifestyle

• Beyond Five Senses - Kinda Studios

• Brown Girls Do It Too: Big Boy Energy - A BBC Radio 5 Live commission for BBC Sounds

• DNA Trail: The Promise – BBC Local Audio for BBC Sounds

• Life After Prison - Prison Radio Association

• Melting Pot – BBC Audio North for BBC Sounds Audio Lab

• Not Even Water – BBC Asian Network

• This Is Powerful - Sound & Bones

Network or publisher

• BBC World Service

• Fun Kids

• Global

• History Hit

• Prison Radio Association

• Sony Music Entertainment

• Wondery

New podcast

• Because the Boss Belongs to Us - Molten Heart

• Hold Or Fold - Prison Radio Association

• Inbetween Man - Improvise Event

• Journeys with Grace - Journeys with Grace

• RadioTherapy - RadioTherapy

• Strangers on a Bench - The Pleasant Trees

• Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris - RobWords

News and current affairs

• Business Daily - BBC News

• Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion – BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Radio 4

• Newscast - BBC News

• Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring - The Citizens

• The BelTel - Mediahuis UK

• The Coming Storm (series 2) – BBC Long Form Audio production for BBC Radio 4.

• Who Killed Emma? – BBC Scotland for BBC Sounds

Parenting

• Dear Daughter - BBC World Service

• Happy Mum Happy Baby - Pixiu Productions

• How To Feed with Charlotte Stirling-Reed - Pod60

• Momfessions - Mind Mommy Coaching

• Secret Mum Club with Sophiena - Audio Always

• Still Parents Podcast - Lily Mae Foundation

• The Apple & The Tree - DMG Podcasts

• Two New Mums - Venny

Rising Star

• Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty - BBC News and BBC Sounds

• Clodagh Stenson - BBC Local for BBC Sounds

• Marnie Duke - Transmission Roundhouse

• Mia Thornton – BBC Audio Labs

• Toni Tone - Audio Always

Sex and relationships

• A Gay And A Nongay - A Gay And A Nongay

• All Out with Jon Dean - GIMME VIDEO

• Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7 - A Reduced Listening production for BBC Sounds Audio Lab

• Sex in Space - String Theory

• The Affair... with Anna Williamson - Curve Mesia

• The Divorce Podcast - Amicable

Sport

• F1 Explains - Formula 1

• For The Love Of Rugby - Crowd Network

• How To Be Superhuman - Podcast Discovery

• Paula's Marathon Run Club - Viral Tribe Entertainment

• The Game - The Times and Sunday Times

• The Sports Agents - Global

• The Upshot - Footwork Media

True crime

• Beyond Suspision - Audible

• Cocaine Inc. - The Times and The Sunday Times

• Dead Man Running – A BBC Scotland production for BBC Sounds

• Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion – BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Radio 4

• Kill List - Wondery

• Assume Nothing: Murder at the Stables - BBC NI

• Shadow World: Thief at the British Museum – - BBC News Long Form Audio Production for BBC Radio 4

• Stalked - BBC Studios Audio Production for BBC Sounds and 5 Live

Video Innovation

• Access All: Disability News and Mental Health – BBC

• Help I Sexted My Boss - Audio Always

• Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley – StoryHunter for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

• Miss Me? – A Persephonica production for BBC Sounds

• Radio Atlas - Radio Atlas

• Staying Relevant - Staying Relevant Productions

Welsh language

• Lleisiau Cymru: 1 Mewn 2 - BBC Radio Cymru

• Sgwrsio - Sgwrsio

• Siarad Siop efo Mari a Meilir - Meilir Rhys Williams

• Yr Hen Iaith - Podlediad Yr Hen Iaith