Podcast of the Year contenders have been revealed as part of the 2026 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards shortlist.
The annual awards return for their 52nd year on Wednesday, 18 March at The Barbican in London, recognising work commissioned or produced in the UK and screened in 2025.
Organisers have confirmed that the Podcast of the Year category will feature Dish, hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett, Ill-Advised by Bill Nighy, The Mishal Husain Show, Audible’s Pride and Prejudice and The History Podcast by BBC Sounds.
The awards are voted for by media journalists and cover television, streaming and audio.
In the Audio Presenter of the Year category, Sara Cox has been nominated following her Radio 2 marathon challenge in 2025.
She is shortlisted alongside fellow Radio 2 presenter Trevor Nelson, Heart Breakfast host Jamie Theakston, and Radio 4 presenters Anna Foster and Sue Mitchell.
BROADCASTING PRESS GUILD AWARDS 2026 NOMINEES:
TELEVISION AND STREAMING AWARDS
BEST SINGLE DRAMA OR MINI-SERIES (1-4 EPISODES)
Adolescence (Netflix)
Brian and Maggie (C4)
Miss Austen (BBC1)
Toxic Town (Netflix)
Trespasses (C4)
BEST DRAMA SERIES (5+ EPISODES)
Amadeus (Sky)
Blue Lights (BBC1)
Dept. Q (Netflix)
Riot Women (BBC1)
The Hack (ITV)
BEST SINGLE DOCUMENTARY OR MINI-SERIES (1-3 EPISODES)
Empire with David Olusoga (BBC2)
Girlbands Forever (BBC2)
Grenfell: Uncovered (Netflix)
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ‘n’ Roll Took on the World (BBC2)
Louis Theroux, The Settlers (BBC2)
BEST DOCUMENTARY SERIES (4+ EPISODES)
Educating Yorkshire (2025) (C4)
Once Upon a Time in Space (BBC2)
Shifty (BBC iPlayer)
Simon Schama’s Story of Us (BBC2)
The Bombing of Pan Am 103 (BBC1)
BEST COMEDY supported by TiVo
Amandaland (BBC1)
Big Boys (C4)
Dreaming Whilst Black (BBC3)
How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) (BBC1)
Such Brave Girls (BBC3)
BEST ENTERTAINMENT supported by TiVo
Celebrity Traitors (BBC1)
LOL: Last One Laughing UK (Amazon)
Taskmaster (C4)
The Assembly (ITV)
Race Across the World (BBC1)
BEST ACTRESS supported by Netflix
Aimee Lou Wood (Toxic Town, Film Club)
Erin Doherty (Adolescence, A Thousand Blows)
Joanna Scanlan (Riot Women)
Lucy Punch (Amandaland)
Rosalie Craig (Riot Women, The Hack)
BEST ACTOR supported by Netflix
Malachi Kirby (A Thousand Blows)
Owen Cooper (Adolescence, Film Club)
Stephen Graham (Adolescence, A Thousand Blows)
Tom Cullen (Trespasses, The Gold)
Will Sharpe (Amadeus, Too Much)
BEST WRITER
Adjani Salmon (Dreaming Whilst Black)
Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson (Blue Lights)
Jack Thorne (Adolescence, Toxic Town,The Hack)
Kat Sadler (Such Brave Girls)
Sally Wainwright (Riot Women)
BPG BREAKTHROUGH TALENT AWARD supported by Prime Video
Chenée Taylor, Kaydrah Walker-Wilkie and Akins Subair (Just Act Normal)
Ella Maisy Purvis (Channel 4’s Patience)
Ellis Howard (What It Feels Like for a Girl, BBC3)
Owen Cooper (Adolescence, Film Club)
Umi Myers (Dope Girls)
AUDIO AWARDS
AUDIO PROGRAMME OF THE YEAR
Anatomy of a Cancellation (Radio 4)
Forgiveness: Stories from the Front Line (Radio 4)
Live Aid 40 Years On (Greatest Hits)
Nick Ferrari (LBC)
Whatever Happened to Counter-Culture? (Radio 4)
AUDIO PRESENTER OF THE YEAR
Anna Foster (the Today programme, Radio 4)
Jamie Theakston (Heart)
Sara Cox (Radio 2)
Sue Mitchell (The Grave Robbers and Inside the Asylum Hotel, Radio 4)
Trevor Nelson (Radio 2)
PODCAST OF THE YEAR
Dish (Cold Glass Productions)
Ill-Advised by Bill Nighy (Eyepod Studios)
Pride and Prejudice (Audible)
The History Podcast (BBC Sounds) for Half-Life
The Mishal Husain Show (Bloomberg)
