with panellists Arion McNicholl, Hollie Clemence, Felicity Capon and exec producer Matt Hill
Huzzah! The Week Unwrapped has scooped Best News and Current Affairs Show at The Publisher Podcast Awards.
The shortlist in our category was really stellar - The Economist, The Telegraph, The FT, The New European and the Evening Standard - so it was particularly satisfying to take home the prize.
Three years into the show, and it’s become something of a sleeper hit.
I suspect, for many of our listeners, we’re their second-favourite news podcast. Counter-intuitively, that’s perhaps the best position to occupy: some of our subscribers may also listen to The Spectator; some may prefer The Guardian - but both sets of people come to us for their secondary set of stories each week. And, although we give a decent briefing, in the grand tradition of The Week brands, we also have a good chat. That’s the bit you can’t contrive, I guess.
I was interviewed by journalism.co.uk on the night of the awards, and this is what I said.