Ed Gamble
Gamble is also co-writer and co-host of the Peacock and Gamble Podcast, with Ray Peacock, and was named best compere in the 2014 Chortle Awards, where he was also nominated for best club comic.
Gamble is also co-writer and co-host of the Peacock and Gamble Podcast, with Ray Peacock, and was named best compere in the 2014 Chortle Awards, where he was also nominated for best club comic.
2025 winners annoucned
Nish Kumar, Ed Gamble and Elis James and John Robins have all truimphed at tonight British Podcast Awards.
James and Robins won best comedy podcast ahead of fellow nominees Where There's A Will, There's A Wake, as hosted by Mel Giedroyc; Sound Heap with John-Luke Roberts; Radio 4’s The Skewer; This Paranormal Life with Rory Powers and Kit Grier Mulvenna and Help I Sexted My Boss with William Hanson and Jordan North
Gamble’s TV spin-off podcast The Traitors: Uncloaked celebrated a double victory with the best entertainment podcast award and the Spotlight Award. The show will return with the launch of Celebrity Traitors next week.
Pod Save the UK with Nish Kumar and Coco Khan took home the Podcast Champion award, recognising its mix of politics and comedy.
The industry’s top prize, podcast of the year, was awarded to Kill List, which also secured best true crime podcast.
The hard-hitting investigation into contract killers made national headlines on release and was praised by the judges for its forensic reporting and gripping storytelling.
Elsewhere, Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett were crowned best hosts for their irresistible interview series Dish,
Miss Me? with Miquita Oliver and Lily Allen was crowned the first-ever winner of the video innovation award, just as Allen announced that she will be taking a break from the podcast.
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society claimed the listeners’ choice award,
The ceremony at Indigo at The O2 in Greenwich, South London ,, was hosted by Maisie Adam.
Here are the winners of all 31 categories:
PODCAST OF THE YEAR: Kill List
Wondery
PODCAST CHAMPION: Pod Save the UK
Crooked Media
LISTENERS' CHOICE: Betwixt the Sheets
BBC
BEST ARTS & CULTURE PODCAST: Sonic Field
Freelance for Sam Tyler
BEST BUSINESS PODCAST: Wedding Pros Who are Ready to Grow
BeccaPountney.com
BEST COMEDY PODCAST: Elis James and John Robins
Audio Always for BBC Radio 5 Live
BEST DAILY PODCAST: Yoto Daily
Yoto
BEST DOCUMENTARY PODCAST: Dead Man Running
BBC
BEST EDUCATION PODCAST: What's Your Map? with Jerry Brotton
Whistledown Productions
BEST ENTERTAINMENT PODCAST: The Traitors: Uncloaked
BBC
BEST FACTUAL PODCAST: The Coming Storm (series 2)
BBC
BEST FICTION PODCAST: Cold Tapes
Free Turn
BEST HEALTH & WELLBEING PODCAST: Inbetween Man
Improvise Event Limited
BEST HISTORY PODCAST: The History Podcast - The Brighton Bomb
Walk on Air Films
BEST HOST(S): Angela Hartnett and Nick Grimshaw
Cold Glass Productions
BEST IMPACT PODCAST: Movers & Shakers: a podcast about life with Parkinson’s
RCJ Media
BEST INTERVIEW PODCAST: Widowed AF
BEST KIDS PODCAST: The Conversation's Curious Kids
The Conversation UK
BEST LIFESTYLE PODCAST: DNA Trail: The Promise
BBC
BEST NETWORK / PUBLISHER: Prison Radio Association
BEST NEW PODCAST: Journeys with Grace
BEST NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS PODCAST: Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion
BBC
BEST PARENTING PODCAST: Momfessions
Mind Mommy Coaching
RISING STAR AWARD: Mia Thornton
BBC
BEST SEX & RELATIONSHIPS PODCAST: Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7
Reduced Listening Ltd
SPECIALIST AWARD: The Guernsey Deportees
OG Podcasts
BEST SPORT PODCAST: The Upshoot
Footwork Media
SPOTLIGHT AWARD: The Traitors: Uncloaked
BBC
BEST TRUE CRIME PODCAST: Kill List
Wondery
BEST VIDEO INNOVATION: Miss Me?
Persephonica for BBC Sounds
BEST WELSH LANGUAGE PODCAST: Lleisiau Cymru: 1 Mewn 2
BBC Radio Cymru
Published: 2 Oct 2025
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Glutton by Ed Gamble
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