Pod Save the UK hosted by comedian Nish Kumar and journalist Coco Khan won the prestigious Podcast Champion Award, a title given to a person or show that has broken new ground, using its platform to help grow communities.
The prize has previously been won by Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell’s The Rest Is Politics, Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally of My Therapist Ghosted Me, and You, Me and the Big C, in which Dame Deborah James, Lauren Mahon and Rachael Bland focused on living with cancer.
Speaking shortly after collecting the award, Khan said the podcast was “about being different, unique, authentic and funny in these very unfunny times”.
Michelin chef Angela Hartnett and broadcaster Nick Grimshaw were crowned Best Hosts for their culinary interview series Dish, while podcasting giants Elis James and John Robins triumphed once again, this time in the Best Comedy category.
Fan favourite Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society, hosted by sex historian Kate Lister, won the Listeners’ Choice Award, the only prize of the night chosen solely by public voting.
It was also a second victorious year in a row for childhood best friends Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver, whose podcast Miss Me?, which explores life experiences and dating, was presented the inaugural Video Innovation award.
Allen recently announced she would be stepping back from the podcast to focus on other projects.
“It’s not goodbye forever,” she said, “it’s just goodbye for now while I go and do some new stuff for a little bit. I’m very grateful for the experience and I’ve had so much fun.”
