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British Podcast Award Winners 2020

After the 2020 British Podcast Awards, Amanda Litherland meets award winners Brown Girls Do It Too, The Log Books and Tunnel 29. Plus Matt Deegan on setting up this year's awards.

Following on from this week's British Podcast Awards ceremony, Amanda Litherland speaks to some of this year's winners.

Firstly, the awards co-creator Matt Deegan takes up behind the scenes at the virtual ceremony, which involved 19 outside broadcasts.

Then we hear from the team behind Best New Podcast, The Log Books. Tash Walker, Adam Smith and Shivani Dave discuss how they used the archive logs of Switchboard - the LGBTQ+ helpline, to tell stories from the community in the 70s and 80s.

Helena Merriman, creator of Best Radio Podcast and Moment Of The Year winner Tunnel 29, gives tips on successful storytelling.

And we speak to Podcast of the Year and Best Sex & Relationships podcast - Brown Girls Do It Too.
Presenters Poppy Begum and Rubina Pabani, and producer Rayhan Rahman talk about how their podcast has opened up conversations around sex in the British-Asian community.

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58 minutes

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  • Fri 17 Jul 2020 11:00
  • Fri 17 Jul 2020 16:00
  • Fri 17 Jul 2020 21:00
  • Sat 18 Jul 2020 04:00

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