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The New Zealand Podcast Awards 2023 released its list of winners last Friday, capturing a broad spectrum of top-notch Kiwi podcasts from categories spanning arts and culture, business, climate, documentary, comedy, education, and more.

Presented by Duncan Garner: Editor in Chief (ROVA), more than 30 judges informed the rankings across 29 categories. Check out the winners below:

BEST ARTS AND CULTURE PODCAST

Gold: Studio Stories

Silver: What Matters Most

Bronze: Voices

BEST BRANDED PODCAST

Gold: The Curve Podcast

Silver: This is Kiwi Podcast

Bronze: The Good Sex Project

BEST BUSINESS PODCAST

Gold: Cooking the Books with Frances Cook

Silver: Lead on Purpose

Bronze: Business is Boring

BEST COMEDY PODCAST

Gold: Did Titanic Sink?

Silver: Tom Sainsbury's Small Town Scandal

Bronze: Tic-Heads with Uncle Tics

BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS PODCAST

Gold: Gone By Lunchtime

Silver: True Story

Bronze: Newsable

BEST DOCUMENTARY PODCAST - Supported by RNZ

Gold: True Story

Silver: Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me

Bronze: Across the Board

BEST EDUCATION PODCAST

Gold: ICYMI

Silver: PhD Unpacked

Bronze: Taringa

BEST ENTERTAINMENT PODCAST - Sponsored by rova

Gold: Grey Areas

Silver: The Morning Shift

Bronze: The Art Of Entertaining

BEST FACTUAL PODCAST

Gold: Black Sheep

Silver: Our Changing World

Bronze: Voices

BEST FAMILY PODCAST

Gold: The Human Race

Silver: What The CF! A Cystic Fibrosis Podcast

Bronze: Untidy

BEST FICTION PODCAST

Gold: Tom Sainsbury's Small Town Scandal

Silver: The Reading

Bronze: Dear Bastard

BEST HEALTH AND WELLBEING PODCAST - Sponsored by rova

Gold: No Such Thing As Normal

Silver: The Human Race

Bronze: Are You Mental?

BEST HISTORY PODCAST

Gold: Black Sheep

Silver: History of Aotearoa New Zealand Podcast

Bronze: The Aotearoa History Show

BEST INDEPENDENT PODCAST

Gold: Studio Stories

Silver: Are You Mental?

Bronze: The Morning Shift

BEST INTERVIEW PODCAST

Gold: Lead On Purpose

Silver: Between Two Beers podcast

Bronze: K' Road Chronicle

MAORI OR PASIFIKA PODCAST OR HOST

Gold: The TAHI

Silver: Nau Mai Town

Bronze: When an Irani Meets a Māori

BEST RADIO PODCAST - Sponsored by rova

Gold: ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley

Silver: Mai Morning Crew

Bronze: George FM Drive with Sin and Brook

BEST SEX AND RELATIONSHIP PODCAST - Sponsored by rova

Gold: Sex.Life

Silver: The Good Sex Project

Bronze: Sex in Space

BEST SPORTS PODCAST - Sponsored by rova

Gold: The Sporting Rumble

Silver: The Dom Harvey Podcast

Bronze: Warriors Anonymous

BEST CLIMATE AWARD

Gold: Our Changing World

Silver: DOC Sounds of Science

Bronze: Scigest

BEST SPOTLIGHT AWARD

Gold: The Detail

Silver: Between Two Beers podcast

Bronze: The Morning Shift

BEST TRUE CRIME PODCAST

Gold: The Trial

Silver: Peter Ellis, the Creche Case & Me

Bronze: GUILT

LISTENERS CHOICE

Morning Shift

#BHN Big Hairy News

Girls Uninterrupted

GREAT FINDS

Interconnector

Sex in Space

Hundy Hundy Hippos

BEST CREATIVITY AWARD

Gold: Studio Stories

Silver: Tom Sainsbury's Small Town Scandal

Bronze: Voices

BEST RISING STAR AWARD - Supported by RNZ

Gold: Connor Scott

Silver: Evie Orpe

Bronze: Sophie Garth

BEST NETWORK OR PUBLISHER

Gold: RNZ

Silver: iHeart

Bronze: rova

BEST NEW PODCAST – Sponsored by Hindeberg Systems

Gold: Studio Stories

Silver: No Such Thing As Normal

Bronze: The TAHI

BEST PODCAST OF THE YEAR

Gold: Black Sheep

Silver: Studio Stories

Bronze: Did Titanic Sink?