The ABC received five gongs, including Podcast of the Year, at the 2024 Australian Podcast Awards overnight which celebrates the nation’s best podcasts and creators.
Ladies, We Need To Talk, presented by Yumi Stynes, took out the Grand Prix Podcast of the Year and the Sex and Relationships category award. The highest honour award recognises outstanding presentation, original research / writing, sound design and boundary-pushing material that showcases the very best of what Australian podcasting can achieve.
Presented by Yumi Stynes, Ladies, We Need To Talk also beat a strong shortlist including stablemate triple j’s The Hook Up to take home the category prize.
Myf Warhurst and Zan Rowe, two of Australia’s most respected and most loved music journalists and presenters won the Best Host(s) category for their audio offering Double J’s Bang On where they debrief about music, art, life and stuff.
Unravel Firebomb about Chinese restaurants being firebombed in Perth in the 1980’s took out the stiff competition, including ABC’s Stop and Search and Mamamia’s True Crime Conversations, to win the True Crime category award.
The ABC was also successful in the Kids category winning the award for Play School: Ears On, audio adventures made for the broadcaster’s littlest listeners.
ABC Director Audio, Ben Latimer said: “The ABC continues to deliver creative and innovative content for our listeners across all ages in the podcast space. To be recognised at these awards demonstrates the high-quality podcasts and storytelling the ABC delivers to Australian listeners.”
You can find all of the ABC’s podcasts, including radio, music and audiobooks, free on ABC listen.