Finalists for the Political Podcast Awards 2025

iNHouse Communications is delighted to announce the shortlist of finalists for the inaugural Political Podcast Awards, sponsored by Google.

Podcast stars and new voices alike have been recognised in the shortlist which was collated from a huge pool of entries.

Winners of 11 awards will be revealed on 29th January 2025 at a ceremony hosted by broadcaster and former MP Gyles Brandreth in Westminster.

Judging the awards is an independent panel chaired by Good Morning Britain’s Head of Politics Anne Alexander. She is joined by Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Caroline Nokes MP, Leader of Scottish Labour Anas Sarwar MSP, Deputy Mayor of London Mete Coban, former Minister Lord Ed Vaizey, Downing Street Political Director Claire Reynolds, Women2Win founder Baroness Anne Jenkin, and CPS Director and Sunday Times columnist, Robert Colvile.

All the podcasts named on the shortlist are automatically nominated for The Podcast of the Year Award (sponsored by Diageo) and the People’s Choice Award. The People’s Choice Award will be decided by a public vote which opens in January.

Chair of iNHouse Communications and founder of the Political Podcast Awards, Katie Perrior said:

“Political podcasts are revolutionising the way the public consumes their news, showing there is a growing appetite to hear more debate whilst still finding a way to disagree well. This respectful, informative, engaging and entertaining content is on the rise and listeners can’t get enough of it.

“We were blown away not only by the number of Political Podcast Awards entries but also the quality, range of discussion and journalism on show. The judges have been given a very difficult task – we can’t wait to see who wins.”

The finalists for the Political Podcast Awards 2025

Best newcomer

Trailer Electoral Dysfunction (Sky News)

News
From: Sky News
Hosted by: Spreaker

Politics Weekly (The Guardian)

News
From: The Guardian
Hosted by: Acast

Trailer The Daily T (The Daily Telegraph)

Culture
From: The Telegraph
Hosted by: Acast

Comedy moment of the year

Trailer Electoral Dysfunction (Sky News)

News
From: Sky News
Hosted by: Spreaker

Trailer For The Many (LBC)

News
From: Global
Hosted by: Captivate

The Political Party (Avalon)

News
From: Avalon
Hosted by: Acast

International podcast of the year

Americano (The Spectator)

News and News
From: The Spectator
Hosted by: Audioboom

Trailer The News Agents (Global)

News
From: Global
Hosted by: Captivate

Trailer The Rachman Review (The Financial Times)

News
From: Financial Times
Hosted by: Acast

Interview of the year

Newscast (BBC) - Interview with Sir Keir Starmer

News
From: BBC News
Hosted by: BBC

Trailer Political Currency (Persephonica) - Interview with Michael Gove

Politics
From: Persephonica
Hosted by: Acast

Trailer The News Agents (Global) - Interview with Eylon Levy

News
From: Global
Hosted by: Captivate

Best original format

Trailer Politics at Jack and Sam’s (Sky News and Politico)

News
From: Sky News
Hosted by: Spreaker

Political Fourcast (Channel 4 News)

News
From: Channel 4 News
Hosted by: Libsyn

Simple Politics (Stripped Media)

News
From: Simple Politics & Stripped Media
Hosted by: Megaphone

Presenter of the year

Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart - The Rest is Politics (Goalhanger)

News and Government
From: Goalhanger
Hosted by: Megaphone

Trailer Beth Rigby, Ruth Davidson, Harriet Harman, and Jess Phillips - Electoral Dysfunction (Sky News)

News
From: Sky News
Hosted by: Spreaker

Chris Mason, Laura Kuenssberg, Adam Fleming, and Paddy O’Connell - Newscast (BBC)

News
From: BBC News
Hosted by: BBC

Hannah Barnes - The New Statesman

News
From: The New Statesman
Hosted by: Acast

Trailer Jack Blanchard and Sam Coates - Politics at Jack and Sam’s (Sky News and Politico)

News
From: Sky News
Hosted by: Spreaker

Producer of the year

Trailer Andrew Alexander: How to Win An Election (The Times)

News and News
From: The Times
Hosted by: Acast

The Channel 4 News Team: Political Fourcast

News
From: Channel 4 News
Hosted by: Libsyn

Trailer Laura Fitzpatrick: Electoral Dysfunction (and others) (Sky News)

News
From: Sky News
Hosted by: Spreaker

Rising Star

Cindy Yu: Chinese Whispers (The Spectator)

News
From: The Spectator
Hosted by: Audioboom

Kiran Stacey: Politics Weekly (The Guardian)

News
From: The Guardian
Hosted by: Acast

Trailer Sascha O’Sullivan: Westminster Insider (Politico)

News and Society & Culture
From: POLITICO
Hosted by: Megaphone

Scoop of the year

Trailer The Slow Newscast (Tortoise): Frank Hester: Tory Northern Diamond story

Society & Culture
From: Tortoise Media
Hosted by: Acast

Trailer The News Agents: Paul Marshall story

News
From: Global
Hosted by: Captivate

Trailer The Story (The Times): Chinese spies story

News
From: The Times
Hosted by: Acast

For the above list, Laura Fitzpatrick is credited as just “Sky News”, and the Frank Hester story was not credited as being from The Slow Newscast. Podnews has made changes for consistency.

The above list of podcasts is available as an OPML file for your podcast player