The True Crime Awards 2026 Presents:
THE SHORTLIST
BEST EPISODIC PODCAST
- Beyond Suspicion from Audible
- Blood Ties Podcast from Pod60
- British Murders Podcast from Audio Always
- Drunk Women Solving Crime from Audio Always
- Paranormia from Audio Always
- Strange But True Crime from BBC Local for BBC Sounds
- This Much is True Crime
- True Crime Cases You Haven't Heard from Flight Systems LLC
- True Crime With Elli Mac from Ellimac Productions
- Weird True Crime from Fire Eyes Media
BEST SERIALISED PODCAST
- Charlene: Somebody Knows Something from The Crime Desk - DMG Group
- Devil in the Desert from ABC News
- Matched with a Predator from BBC Disclosure & BBC Scotland
- Murder in the Masai Mara from The Telegraph
- Pipeline: Left to Die from The Crime Desk - DMG Group
- Sea of Lies from CBC & What's the Story Sounds
- Shirley You Can’t Be Serious Podcast from Dead Serious Media
- The Poppy Day Bomb from The Time & Sunday Times
- Toil and Trouble from Audio Always
- Untested: A True Crime Podcast from USA Today
BEST SERIALISED PODCAST - SEASONAL
- Assume Nothing: Murder at the Stables from BBC
- Bed of Lies from The Telegraph
- British Scandal from Samizdat Audio
- Crime Next Door: The Ballad of Big Mags from BBC Radio Scotland
- Crime Next Door: The Cop, The Kidnap and The Killer from BBC Radio Stoke for BBC Sounds
- Crime Next Door: The Golden Toilet Heist from BBC South Investigations
- Crime World Presents: Groomed from Mediahuis Ireland
- Doctor's Orders from Sony Music Podcasts
- Mind of a Monster: The Killer Nurse from Arrow Media, A Fremantle Label
- The Trial of Erin Patterson from The Crime Desk - DMG Group
OUTSTANDING INDIE PODCAST
- British Murders Podcast from Audio Always
- Crime Analyst
- Inside Forensic Science: A Case Of Stolen Identity from Adventurous Audio
- Murder Mile UK True Crime from Audio Always
- Seeing Red
- True Crime With Elli Mac from Ellimac Productions
- True Criminals from Audio Bleach Global
- Truly Criminal
- UK True Crime Podcast from Audio Always
- Writing Wrongs from Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University
PODCAST: IMPACT FOR CHANGE
- Behind the Scenes - Cambs Cops: Our Stories from Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Charlene: Somebody Knows Something from The Crime Desk - DMG Group
- Crime Analyst
- Missing in Hush Town: Bethany Markowski from Fire Eyes Media & MomCast Productions
- NOLA 93 - The Journal and the Murder from N Leigh Hunt & Fire Eyes Media
- Pipeline: Left to Die from The Crime Desk - DMG Group
- REAL True Crime Podcast
- The Cruelty: Stolen Generations from BBC Scotland
- True Criminals from Audio Bleach Global
PODCAST: MOST CAPTIVATING HOST(S)
- CONmunity podcast and Klooghless
- Crime Next Door: The Ballad of Big Mags from BBC Radio Scotland
- Crime World from Mediahuis Ireland
- Don't Blame the Mom
- Drunk Women Solving Crime from Audio Always
- Missing in Hush Town: Bethany Markowski from Fire Eyes Media & MomCast Productions
- The Magnificent O'Connors - Ragnar O'Connor from BBC Audio Scotland
- This Much is True Crime
- True Crime Cases You Haven't Heard from Flight Systems LLC
- True Criminals from Audio Bleach Global
PODCAST NETWORK OF THE YEAR
- ABC News
- Audible
- Audio Always
- Audio Bleach Global
- Audiochuck
- CBC
- Fire Eyes Media
- Sony Music Podcasts
- The Crime Desk - The Daily Mail
PODCAST OF THE YEAR
- Charlene: Somebody Knows Something from The Crime Desk - DMG Group
- Coining It from Global
- Hunting the Whisky Bandits from BBC Scotland
- Murder Mile UK True Crime from Audio Always
- Pipeline: Left to Die from The Crime Desk - DMG Group
- The Crime Agents from Global
- The Trial from The Crime Desk - DMG Group
- UK True Crime Podcast from Audio Always
- Watching You from Sony Music Podcasts
PODCAST: RISING STAR
- Missing in Hush Town from Fire Eyes Media & MomCast Productions
- NOLA 93 - The Journal and the Murder from N Leigh Hunt & Fire Eyes Media
- Paranormia from Audio Always
- RGU Crime Files from Mearns & Gill Advertising
- The Casewalker Chronicles
- This Much is True Crime
- True Crime Cases You Haven't Heard from Flight Systems LLC
The True Crime Awards will take place on 4th June 2026 at the Hilton, London Bankside. If you'd like to join us for this prestigious event, tickets are currently available for purchase for either individuals, tables of ten or tables of twelve.