Scottish Podcast Awards 2026 shortlist
The Scottish Podcast Awards is an annual celebration of the quality, creativity and breadth of podcast content being produced across Scotland.
As the country’s first dedicated national awards for podcasting, it exists to recognise and champion the creators, producers and storytellers shaping Scotland’s rapidly growing audio landscape.
Entries are self-nominated, with more than 20 categories judged by an independent panel of almost 50 industry experts and podcast enthusiasts, alongside a public vote for the Spotify Listeners’ Choice Award.
Scotland’s podcasting community is bursting with talent, innovation and ambition. We’re not simply participating in the global audio conversation-we are helping shape it with a distinctly Scottish voice. These awards are about giving that thriving community the recognition it deserves and celebrating the shows making Scottish audio truly unmissable.
With more than 400 entries and an extraordinary calibre of submissions, we’re delighted to reveal the shortlisted nominees for the inaugural Scottish Podcast Awards.
Arts & Culture
Edinburgh Film Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Media Hopper
Valtos: In Session
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Just Get A Real Job
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Book Club for One
Spotify
FONDS
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Take Four Books
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify and all major platforms
Bookclub - Emma Thompson: Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify and all major platforms
Let Them Eat Books
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Boomplayer, iHeartRadio, Listen Notes, Podchaser, Podbean, Spotify
Peacock Cinema Podcasts
Amazon Music, Spotify, Spreaker, YouTube
Booktails Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Boomplay, iHeart Radio, Player FM, Podbean, Podchaser, Spotify
Music Now: the music podcast from The Skinny
Apple Podcasts, Podbean, RedCircle, Spotify
Best Podcast Artwork
Leather'd Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, Spotify, YouTube
The Scottish Folklore Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Shooting Ropes
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, PocketCasts, Spotify, YouTube
I've Got An Idea For A Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castamatic, Castbox, Castro, Curiocaster, Fountain, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podcast Guru, Podcast Index, PodLP, Podverse, True Fans, Spotify
Scottish History Out Of Order
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
New Frontiers
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Check One Two - The Lowdown on Testicular Cancer
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
UK True Crime Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Best Video Podcast
Open Goal
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Scottish Geek Guy
YouTube
STV Radio Football Show
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, STV Player, YouTube
Risking It All
Spotify, YouTube
Girls Overheard
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Shami's Speakeasy
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
The Rest Is Politics
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Origin Story w/David McIntosh Jr.
Spotify, YouTube
Who Agrees?
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, Spotify, YouTube
The Ford & Shelby Show
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Business 2 Business
M&G Agency Life
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
The Calling Conversations
Spotify, YouTube
Risking It All
Spotify, YouTube
Digital Dominators
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Goodpods, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
The ESPC Property Show
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Goodpods, iHeartRadio, Patreon, Pocket Casts, Overcast, Spotify, YouTube
Business, Balls & Banter
Spotify, YouTube
The Know Your Numbers Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify
The Go Radio Business Show with Hunter and Haughey
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Edinburgh Business Stories
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Full of Ourselves Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Comedy
Keeping it real (KP)
Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Stop Watering Dead Flowers
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, Spotify, YouTube
Shooting Ropes
Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Spotify, YouTube
Girls Overheard
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
The Edinburgh Society of Unapologetically Imperfect Mothers Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, iheart.com, Spotify and all major platforms
Forget The Ball - Get On With The Game
Acast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
The Stand Comedy Club Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
2bampod
Apple Podcasts, Buzzsprout, Spotify
Across The Tiers
Acast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
The Ford & Shelby Show
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Community Impact & Charity
The Canmore Trust Podcast
Spotify, YouTube
Highlands Reimagined
Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify
RadioTherapy
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify
Lochnorris Studios
Spotify
Social Sessions Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Beatson Talks
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
1000 Better Stories - Everyday Changemaker series (Dumfries)
Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Podbean, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
This Is Islay
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Overcast, Pandora, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Spotify, YouTubeand all major platforms
Peacock Cinema Podcasts
Amazon Music, Spotify, Spreaker, YouTube
Check One Two - The Lowdown on Testicular Cancer
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Gusty: The IBD Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Documentary
Highlands Reimagined
Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify
The Tunnock's Dynasty with Sir Boyd Tunnock
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Hunting The Whisky Bandits
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify and all major platforms
Unique Scotland
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all major platforms
Who Owns the Clyde
Apple Podcasts, Podfollow, Spotify
Now Here
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
FONDS
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
The Cruelty
Apple Podcasts, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Sounds, Spotify
Romanov: Czar of Hearts
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify
Trumped
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify and all major platforms
Song of the Deer
BBC Radio 4, BBC Sounds
RNLI Stories of Courage
Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify and all major platforms
Entertainment & Pop Culture
Build-A-Bond
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
The Horror Cut Show
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Listen Notes, Spotify, YouTube
John's Jotter: 1999
Spotify
A Pint And Two Shots
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Back To Now!
Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Pocket Casts, Podchaser, Overcast, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Chatsunami
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
I've Got An Idea For A Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castamatic, Castbox, Castro, Curiocaster, Fountain, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podcast Guru, Podcast Index, PodLP, Podverse, True Fans, Spotify
Girls Overheard
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
The Cineskinny
Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify
A Lot On Your Plate Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
The Ford & Shelby Show
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Fiction & Drama
Albadelica
Spotify
The Scottish Folklore Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Rock Scree Drownt
Apple Podcasts, Buzzsprout, Spotify and all major platforms
BBC Radio 4: A Northerners Guide to London
BBC Sounds
Land's End: A Shepherd's Tale
Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
The Jura Affair by William Boyd
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify and all major platforms
Bloody Scotland: The Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify and all major platforms
The Great Goose Migration
YouTube
Boswell's Galloping Farmers
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, ArranSound, Network App Listing, Spotify and all major platforms
Food, Drink & Hospitality
The Tunnock's Dynasty with Sir Boyd Tunnock
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
The Judge Reviews Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Not Another Whisky Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Whisky Sisters Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Listen Notes, PlayerFM, Podchaser, Podbean, Spotify, TuneIn, YouTube
Satay? Okay!
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Scran
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Chrome, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podbean, Podcast Addict, Safari, Spotify, YouTube
Let Them Eat Books
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Boomplayer, iHeartRadio, Listen Notes, Podchaser, Podbean, Spotify
Booktails Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Boomplay, iHeart Radio, Player FM, Podchaser, Podbean, Spotify
Football
Open Goal
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
A Pint And Two Shots
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
STV Radio Football Show
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, STV Player, YouTube
Go Ballistic
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Cracking the Code Podcast - Scottish Football Podcast
Spotify, YouTube
The Sideline
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Confessions of a Match Fixer
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify
A Level Playing Field
Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Castro, Goodpods, Overcast, Player FM, Podcast Addict, Podcast Index, Spotify, TrueFans
Go Radio Football Show - Glasgow 850 Special - Podcast Series
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Forget The Ball - Get On With The Game
Acast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
20 Minute Tims
Acast, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Let Me Be Frank
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Up Wi' The Bonnets
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
The Hampden Roar
Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Podchaser, Podbean, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Gaelic
Song of the Deer
BBC Radio 4, BBC Sounds
Big Gaels Don't Cry
Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Spotify
Ag Èirigh 's a' Gearan
Spotify, YouTube
History, Folklore & Heritage
And My Trowel
Archaeology Podcast Network, Apple Podcasts, Podcast Addict, Spotify, YouTube
Wild for Scotland
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Spotify and all major platforms
The Scottish Folklore Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Pax Britannica
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Who Owns the Clyde
Apple Podcasts, Podfollow, Spotify
A History Of Scottish Drama In Six Plays
Apple Podcasts, Captivate, Spotify and all major platforms
Winds of Change
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
The Findhorn Garden
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify and all major platforms
Scottish History Out Of Order
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Boswell's Galloping Farmers
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, ArranSound, Spotify
Love Scotland
Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, YouTube
International
All The Right Movies
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
The Human Mix
Apple Podcasts, Spotify
The Rest Is History
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Interview
Open Goal
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Scotcast
Apple Podcasts, BBC iPlayer, BBC One Scotland, Sounds, Spotify and all major platforms
5 Random Questions
Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts Spotify and all major platforms
Scran
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Chrome, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podbean, Podcast Addict, Safari, Spotify, YouTube
The Steamie
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Chrome, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podcat Addict, Podbean, Safari, Spotify and all major platforms
Blether Together from Farmstrong Scotland
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
My Family, Mental Illness, and Me
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
New Frontiers
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Golf is good. Roger that!
Apple Podcasts, Spotify
All Bronze, No Brains!
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Edinburgh Business Stories
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Origin Story w/David McIntosh Jr.
Spotify, YouTube
Lifestyles, Health & Wellbeing, Fashion & Beauty
No Dice Podcast
Podbean, Spotify, YouTube
SKIN & WITHIN
Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify
Keeping it real (KP)
Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Metabolic Wellbeing without the BS
Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Money Made Human
Apple Podcasts, Buzzsprout, Spotify, YouTube
Flourish Voices
Spotify, YouTube
'Have You Frozen Your Eggs Yet?'
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Chrome, Deezer, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podcast Index, Spotify
Scotland's Women
Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Spotify
Men Only Episodes: 'Why Didn't They Just Leave?' & 'Prostate Cancer: A Marathon, Not A Sprint'.
Spotify
The Groovy Chicks podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
A Lot On Your Plate Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
egg talks to Lady Sarra Hoy
Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, YouTube
News, Politics & Current Affairs
Prosperity Unlocked
Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Podcast Addict, Podchaser and Deezer
Scotcast
BBC Sounds, Apple, Spotify
The Steamie
Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Chrome, Overcast, Safari, Pocket Casts, Podcast Addict, Podbean, YouTube
Shami's Speakeasy
YouTube
Talk Media
Patreon
The Rest Is Politics: Leading
Spotify
Holyrood Sources
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, X, TikTok, Instagram & Facebook
Scotland's Emerging Talent
The Reading Cafe
Apple Podcasts, Audible, Podbean, Spotify
Focus on Founders
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Malcy and Midge
Amazon Music, YouTube
Relatively Blonde Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Patreon, YouTube
Lochnorris Studios
Spotify
Cherry on top the podcast
Spotify, YouTube
Kira and Co the podcast - one full independent series - 10 episodes
Spotify, YouTube
BBC Radio 4: A Northerners Guide to London
BBC Sounds
Take Four Books
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify and all major platforms
Pangolin: The Conservation Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
The Edinburgh Fringe Show, with Ewan Spence
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major platforms
Sex, Family & Relationships
Grief Unedited
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castro Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
'Have You Frozen Your Eggs Yet?"
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Chrome, Deezer, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podcast Index, Spotify
Blether Together from Farmstrong Scotland
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
My Family, Mental Illness, and Me
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
The Edinburgh Society of Unapologetically Imperfect Mothers Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, iheart.com, Spotify and all major platforms
Not Another Couples Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, iHeartRadio, JioSaavn, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
A Lot On Your Plate Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Sport
Beyond The Baller Podcast
Spotify, YouTube
The Bunkered Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, Podbean, Podchaser, Podfollow, Podchaser and all major platforms
Leather'd Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, Spotify, YouTube
SWN Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube
Pike’n’Patter
YouTube
EIHL Face-Off
Apple Podcasts, Spotify
The Football Journals Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Patreon, Spotify, YouTube
Stramash - The Scottish NFL Podcast
All major platforms
Romanov: Czar of Hearts
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify
2bampod
Apple Podcasts, Buzzsprout, Spotify
Classic Baseball Radio
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Let Me Be Frank
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Travel & Outdoors
Adventure Diaries Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify
Pike’n’Patter
YouTube
Wild for Scotland
Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify
SAMS Ocean Explorer
Apple Podcasts, Amazon Podcasts, Buzzsprout, Spotify
Edinburgh Outdoors
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Player FM, Pocket Cast, Podbean, Podchaser, Spotify, YouTube
Scottish Island Adventures
Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major platforms
Pangolin: The Conservation Podcast
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Scotland Grows Show
Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify and all major platforms
True Crime, Mystery & The Dark Stuff
RGU Crime Files
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Spotify and all major platforms
The Horror Cut Show
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Listen Notes, Spotify, YouTube
Hunting The Whisky Bandits
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify and all major platforms
Inside Forensic Science: Series 4 - A Case Of Stolen Identity
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Spotify
This Much is True Crime Episode 32: Should We Protect The Monsters?
Apple Podcasts, Audible, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
Scottish Murders
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music and all major platforms
Young Warriors (ep.2 Manchester & ep. 5 Birmingham)
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms
In Dark Corners - Series 2
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify and all major platforms
Confessions of a Match Fixer
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify
Trumped
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify and all major platforms
Bloody Scotland: The Podcast
Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Spotify and all major platforms
Crime Next Door: The Ballad of Big Mags
Apple Podcasts, BBC Sounds, Spotify
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