Adam Buxton has been crowned Podcast Champion at the British Podcast Awards. The award recognises the person who has done the most to help and develop podcasts in 2016. The Adam Buxton Podcast has had umpteen big guests such as Steve Coogan, Michael Palin and Brian Eno.
Others winners are Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan and audioBoom, which was named The Best Entertainment Podcast and Beef & Dairy Network hosted by Benjamin Partridge which won The Best Comedy Podcast supported by Podiant. Best Radio Podcast supported by UK Radioplayer went to Short Cuts, which is presented by Josie Long.
Full results:
audioBoom Podcast of the Year
Fathers And Sons – Radio Wolfgang with Mr Porter
Podcast Champion
Adam Buxton
Listeners’ Choice Award
Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review
Best Interview Podcast supported by ipDTL:
Winner: Scientists Not The Science – Stuart Higgins
Silver: What Goes On Here – Sam Walker
Bronze: Getting Better Acquainted – Dave Pickering
Best Current Affairs Podcast
Winner: The Inquiry – BBC Current Affairs for BBC World Service
Silver: The Economist asks – The Economist
Bronze: Weekly Economics Podcast – New Economics Foundation
Best Review Podcast:
Winner: Song by Song – Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay
Silver: The Penguin Podcast – Somethin’ Else
Bronze: Soundtracking with Edith Bowman – Edith Bowman
Best Entertainment Podcast with Maple Street Studios
Winner: Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan – audioBoom
Silver: Probably True – Scott Flashheart Elliott
Bronze: Soundtracking with Edith Bowman – Edith Bowman
Best 'Other' Podcast:
Winner: Between the Ears – BBC Radio
Silver: Mountain – Christopher Sleight
Bronze: Weird Tales and the Unexplainable – Bob Shoy
Best Branded Content Podcast supported by Create
Winner: Fathers and Sons – Radio Wolfgang with Mr Porter
Silver: Sound Matters – Third Ear/Quincey Sound production for B&O Play
Bronze: The National Trust Gardens Podcast – Fresh Air Production
Best Radio Podcast supported by UK Radioplayer
Winner: Short Cuts – Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio
Silver: 50 Things That Changed The Modern Economy – BBC Radio Current Affairs for BBC World Service
Bronze: Ollie & Si – Ollie Gallant and Simon Alexander, Quidem Radio for Touch FM
Best True Crime Podcast
Winner: They Walk Among Us – Benjamin Fitton and Rosanna Fitton
Silver: Body On The Moor – BBC Radio
Bronze Untold: the Daniel Morgan Murder – Peter Jukes and Deeivya Meir
Best Sports Podcast
Winner: Fight Disciples
Silver: Hornet Heaven – Olly Wicken
Bronze: The Big Interview With Graham Hunter – Neil White
Best International Podcast
Winner: How To Be A Girl
Silver: Radiolab
Bronze: Homecoming
Best New Podcast supported by the Radio Independents Group
Winner: The Cinemile – Dave Corkery and Cathy Cullen
Silver: The Untold – BBC Radio 4
Bronze: Everyone Else – Eva Krysiak
Best Fiction Podcast:
Winner: Tracks – BBC Radio
Silver: Wooden Overcoats – Wooden Overcoats Ltd
Bronze: Beef & Dairy Network Podcast – Benjamin Partridge
Best Comedy Podcast supported by Podiant
Winner: Beef & Dairy Network Podcast – Benjamin Partridge
Silver: The Adam Buxton Podcast – Adam Buxton
Bronze: Do the Right Thing – Fuzz Productions
The Represent Award for new podcast audiences
Winner: Melanin Millennials – The ShoutOut Network
Silver: Farmerama – Jo Barratt and Abby Rose
Bronze: Lunar Poetry Podcasts – David Turner
Smartest podcast supported by Whistledown Studios
Winner: Coffee Break Italian – Radio Lingua Network
Silver: Scienceish – Radio Wolfgang
Bronze: Sound Matters – Third Ear/Quincey Sound production for B&O Play
Picture by Matt Crockett.
