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Are you looking for a new podcast to make your more cleverer? You've come to the right place, as Rhianna Dhillon takes us through the smartest docs and factual shows Britain has produced this year.

Smartest Podcast supported by Rethink Audio

Food Actually Chalk & Blade / Pushkin Industries for Luminary Media

Power Corrupts Brian Klaas

Tales Of Silicon Valley The Times/Wireless Studios

The Listening Service Radio 3 Production for BBC Radio 3

The Sound of Anger Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions

The Tip Off Maeve McClenaghan

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Rhianna Dhillon is back to reveal all the nominees from the British Podcast Awards 2020 - as chosen by over sixty independent judges across the UK.

We start with the nominees for Best Entertainment podcast - supported by Sony Music's 4th Floor Creative. They are:

Help I Sexted My Boss  William Hanson and Jordan NorthAudio Always

No Country For Young Women Radio 1 and 1Xtra Production for BBC Sounds

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Plosive Productions

Sam Walker's Desert Diaries Sam Walker

Something Rhymes with Purple Somethin' Else

George Ezra & Friends  4th Floor Creative

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Rhianna Dhillon ends the round-up of the finest podcasts Britain has produced this year, with the nominees of the Best Entertainment podcast and The Spotlight Award, for shows that are reaching big audiences with amazing listening experiences.

The list of British Podcast Awards 2019, powered by DAX, includes:

Best Entertainment supported by Sony Music’s 4th Floor Creative

Blood on the Tracks - Shooting Sharks Productions for BBC Sounds

Desert Island Dicks - Desert Island Dicks Podcast

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster - Plosive Productions

Private Parts - Jamie Laing & Francis Boulle for Spirit Media

Spark True Stories - Elle Scott

This Paranormal Life - Rory Powers & Kit Grier

Spotlight Award

Fortunately...with Fi and Jane - BBC Radio 4

George Ezra & Friends - George Ezra

Happy Mum, Happy Baby - Giovanna Fletcher for Pixiu

Happy Place - Fearne Cotton

Katie Piper's Extraordinary People - Katie Piper for Somethin' Else

That Peter Crouch Podcast - 5live for BBC Sounds

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Three more categories get The Shortlist treatment from Rhianna Dhillon, including today:

Best Branded Podcast

Awake at Night - Chalk and Blade and Bethany Bell for the UNHCR

Feminists Don't Wear Pink - Penguin Random House / Scarlett Curtis

Fresh Eyes - Radio Wolfgang

Healthy For Men - The River Group (on behalf of Holland & Barrett)

Meet Me at the Museum - Whistledown Productions for Art Fund

Rough Guide to Everywhere - Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening

Best Radio Podcast supported by Radioplayer

Brexit: A Love Story? - World at One for BBC Radio 4

Fun Kids Science Weekly - Fun Kids Radio

Multi Story - BBC Local Radio

ShoutOut Radio - ShoutOut Radio

Tara and George - Audrey Gillan for Falling Tree Productions

The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X  - Global

Best Family

Everything Under The Sun - Molly Oldfield

Fun Kids Science Weekly - Fun Kids Radio

Made By Mammas  - Create Productions

Ruthie: Me and My Dad - talkRADIO / Wireless Studios

Surrogacy: A Family Frontier - Dustin Lance-Black, Tracy Williams and Jane Andrews for BBC Radio 5 Live

The Long Road to Baby - Sophie Sulehria

 

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In the fourth instalment, we hear the very best sports shows, sex & relationships shows & interviews of the past twelve months.

CONTENT WARNING: references to sex, rape.

This edition features clips from the following British Podcast Award nominees:

Best Interview

Breaking Mum and Dad: The Podcast - Anna Williamson, Create Productions

Declassified - Michael Coates

Homo Sapiens - Will Young and Christopher Sweeney for Banana Stand

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - Elizabeth Day

Sex Talk - Prison Radio Association

The Modern Mann - Olly Mann for Rethink Audio

Sex & Relationships

#QueerAF - National Student Pride & Jamie Wareham

Project Pleasure - Anouszka Tate and Frankie Wells

Qmmunity  - Alexis Caught, Kevin Morosky, Christania McPherson

The Receipts Podcast - Audrey Akande/Milena Sanchez/Tolani Shoneye

The Sugar Baby Confessionals - Sara-Mae Tuson for Fable Gazers

Unexpected Fluids - BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 1

Best Sport

F1: Beyond The Grid - Formula 1 for Audioboom

LS11 - Darren Harper and Ryan Wilson for Proper Sport

The BBC's LGBT Sport Podcast - Jack Murley for BBC Radio Jersey

The Big Interview with Graham Hunter - BackPage Media

The Cycling Podcast Féminin - The Cycling Podcast

The Totally Football Show with James Richardson - Muddy Knees Media for the Totally Football Network

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Rhianna Dhillon is back to showcase more of the British Podcast Awards nominees... including in this episode:

Best Comedy supported by Spotify

Beef And Dairy Network Podcast - Benjamin Partridge for Maximum Fun

Birthday Girls' House Party - Whistledown Productions for BBC Sounds

Dear Joan and Jericha - Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine, A Hush Ho/Pepperdine Productions/Dot Dot Dot Co-Pro

The All New Angelos and Barry Podcast - Alex Lowe and Dan Skinner for Great Big Owl

The Guilty Feminist - Deborah Frances-White

The Horne Section Podcast - Pixiu for Deezer Originals

Bullseye Award supported by Podiant

Probably True - Scott Flashheart

Ask The Nincompoops - Andy Stanton and Carrie Quinlan, Great Big Owl

Centuries of Sound - James Errington

Somerset House Studios - Somerset House Studios

Farmerama - Jo Barratt, Katie Revell, Abby Rose

BBC Somerset's Cricket Show: Extras - BBC Somerset

Acast Moment of The Year

Dear Joan and Jericha - Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdine, A Hush Ho/Pepperdine Productions/Dot Dot Dot Co-Pro

Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet

My Dad Wrote A Porno - Jamie, James, Alice and Rocky

Over The Bridge Podcast - Bilal, Kweku, Patrick & Tom

Ways to Change the World, with Krishnan Guru-Murthy - Channel 4 News/ITN

You, Me and the Big C - BBC Radio 5 Live

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Find you new favourite podcast. In this second of six episodes, we Rhianna Dhillon trails the nominees of three more categories in this year's British Podcast Awards.

* Content warning: suicide 

Including clips from:

Best True Crime

Case Notes - Classic FM for Global

Dead Man Talking - Peter Sale & Alex Hannaford - DMT Media & Audioboom

Death in Ice Valley - Neil McCarthy/Marit Higraff for BBC World Service/NRK

End Of Days - Ciaran Tracey & Chris Warburton for the BBC

RedHanded - Hannah Maguire & Suruthi Bala for Acast

The Doorstep Murder - Fiona Walker for BBC Scotland

Best Fiction

Calais 2037 - New Time Productions Limited

Double Bubble - Prison Radio Association

Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet

The Amelia Project - Philip Thorne & Oystein Brager for Imploding Fictions

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - Julian Simpson, Sweet Talk Productions for BBC Radio 4

The Offensive - Radio Stakhanov

Best Arts & Culture

BLANK - with Jim Daly and Giles Paley-Phillips

Excuse The Mess - Ben Corrigan

Folk on Foot - Matthew Bannister

Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day - Elizabeth Day

Stance Podcast - Heta Fell & Chrystal Genesis

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Rhianna Dhillon runs down the nominees of this year's British Podcast Awards, featuring today:

Best Current Affairs

Beyond Today - BBC Radio 4

Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet

Stance Podcast - Heta Fell & Chrystal Genesis

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry with Eddie Mair - BBC Sounds

The Intelligence - The Economist for Economist Radio

Today in Focus - The Guardian

Smartest Podcast

About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge - Reni Eddo-Lodge & Renay Richardson

Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet

On The Road - Prison Radio Association

Shedunnit - Caroline Crampton

The Tip Off - Maeve McClenaghan for Acast

The Urbanist - Monocle 24

Best New Podcast

A Mile in My Shoes - Empathy Museum and Loftus Media

About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge - Reni Eddo-Lodge/Renay Richardson

Have You Heard George's Podcast? - George The Poet

No Country for Young Women - BBC Sounds

On The Road - Prison Radio Association

Today in Focus - The Guardian

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