Guy LambertCulture reporter
The Traitors companion podcast, The Traitors: Uncloaked, has continued the franchises success by taking home two prizes at the British Podcast Awards.
The show, hosted by comedian Ed Gamble won the trophy for Best Entertainment and also the Spotlight Award, honouring podcasts that help raise the medium’s mainstream growth and popularity.
Previous winners included Grounded with Louis Theroux, British Scandal and The News Agents.
It was also a successful night for Kill List, the true crime podcast that explores a secret list on a murder-for-hire website, winning not only in the Best True Crime category, but also being named Podcast of the Year.
The Traitors BBC television series continues to go from strength to strength with viewers remaining more faithful than ever to the reality series, resulting in the show winning at the 2025 Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme Awards.
More than seven million people tuned in for the explosive finale of the third series.
The episode was watched live by an average audience of 7.4m on Friday night, up 1.6m on last year’s final – making it the most watched episode on BBC One in the show’s history.
Following the finale, a further 4.8m tuned in to an extended episode of The Traitors: Uncloaked podcast that was broadcast on BBC One and Sounds.
The podcast will return on 8 October when The Celebrity Traitors television series begins on BBC One.
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.”
The BBC took home 11 awards, with recognition for Intrigue: Intrigue: To Catch a Scorpion and Dead Man Running, which tells the true story of how British man Kim Avis went from local celebrity to international fugitive when his dark past caught up with him.
The Impact award also went to Hugh Sheehan and his six part BBC series Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7, which explores a landmark legal case in the 1990s that changed the lives of seven men from north west England forever.
