The London Podcast Festival celebrates ten years of live podcasting

Kings Place is proud to announce the return of the London Podcast Festival, marking a major milestone with its 10th edition. The festival will run from 4–14 September 2025 and podcast fans will be able to attend a vast array of live in-hall and online performances from the world’s greatest pod stars at the big birthday edition.

A decade on from launching Europe’s first major podcast festival, the London Podcast Festival continues to champion creativity, connection and innovation in the global podcasting scene, with its original home at Kings Place in London still at the heart of the celebration.

Over the past ten years, the festival has welcomed more than 68,000 visitors and 750 podcasts to its stages, from breakthrough shows like My Dad Wrote a Porno to fan-favourite mainstays including Three Bean Salad, Tommy’s Brownload and Jameela Jamil. The London Podcast Festival has helped shape the UK’s podcasting landscape, offering an immersive, fan-first festival dedicated to the evolving artform.

Curated by Kings Place’s Head of Artistic Planning Rebecca Millican, the 2025 festival continues to reflect the wide-ranging power of podcasting to entertain, inspire and bring people together. This year’s festival will once again occupy all of Kings Place’s versatile spaces – from the main halls to the Podcast Lounge and canal-side terrace – with live-streamed shows also available globally via the bespoke KPlayer platform.

Millican says: “Ten years ago, we set out to make Kings Place the home of live podcasting. A decade later, we’re proud to still be at the centre of this vibrant community. Podcasting has grown into a cultural force and the London Podcast Festival is where fans can gather to celebrate, discover, and connect. For this 10th anniversary edition, we want to make it the most special year of the London Podcast Festival yet, and we can’t wait to welcome audiences both old and new.”

The first wave of shows available to book include:

• Thu 4, Fri 5 & Sat 12 Sept - History Hit at London Podcast Festival - the History Hit podcast network bring their shows to the festival for the first time
• Thu 4 Sep, 19:00 – Ade Oladipo Presents…The Green Chair: The ultimate boxing podcast that delivers expert analysis, fight breakdowns, and real-time reactions
• Fri 5 & Sat 6 Sep, 19:00 – No Such Thing As A Fish: Celebrating the festival’s 10th birthday with back-to-back shows and global streaming access
• Fri 5 Sep, 21:30 – Tommy’s Brownload: One of the UK’s most-loved British Asian podcasts returns with its signature mix of humour and cultural commentary
• Sun 7 Sep, 19:00 – Wooden Overcoats: 10th Anniversary Special of the acclaimed audio sitcom live as part of a special audio drama day
• Sun 7 Sep, 14:00 – Wrestle Me!: Marc Haynes and Pete Donaldson bring back their hit wrestling podcast by popular demand
• Thu 11 Sept, 19:00 - Making a Musical: The podcast that offers a unique deep-dive into the creative processes of new British musicals currently in development
• Sat 13 Sep, 19:00 – The Empire Film Podcast: The ultimate podcast for film lovers returns for 2025
• Sat 13 Sept, 16:30 - Chart Music: The TOTP Podcast: The podcast that takes one random episode of Top Of The Pops - the greatest TV Pop show ever - and breaks it down to its very last compound.
• Sun 14 Sep, 19:00 – Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil: The beloved actress and activist brings her sharp, honest and insightful conversations to The London Podcast Festival stage with her new podcast
• Sun 14 Sep, 14:00 – Shaping Tomorrow Presented by Hear Art: A unique deaf video podcast that spotlights the careers of deaf professionals across the creative, sports and entertainment industries

Returning fan favourites, fresh new voices and a decade of podcasting excellence – The London Podcast Festival 2025 is set to be a landmark celebration of the medium.

No Such Thing as a Fish said of their return: “We couldn’t be happier to be back in the London Podcast Festival’s tenth year. Ten years is how long it takes to grow truffles from nothing, how long it takes to qualify in making artificial sushi, and how long it once took a translator to successfully translate two words of an Agatha Christie book into Icelandic. The organisers could have done any of these things with their time – and instead they’ve just made a brilliant podcast festival.”

Beth Eyre from Wooden Overcoats for Wooden Overcoats Presents… Audio Drama Day said: “We’re celebrating 10 years of Wooden Overcoats with a brand new episode - and with some of our favourite indie podcasts! A whole day of drama and comedy, performed live. You’ve heard them in your ears: now see them before your eyes!”

History Hit at London Podcast Festival

The London Podcast Festival has teamed up with podcast network History Hit for the first time to bring a special series of live shows from some of the most popular history podcasts in the UK, including Betwixt The Sheets, The Ancients, After Dark and Dan Snow’s History Hit, all available to book now:

• Thu 4 Sept, 19:00 - Betwixt The Sheets: Join sex historian Kate Lister on Betwixt the Sheets as she gets intimate with the stories that would make your history teacher blush.
• Fri 5 Sept, 19:00 - The Ancients: Join Tristan Hughes for the podcast dedicated to discussing our distant past with each episode covering a specific theme from antiquity.
• Fri 5 Sept, 19:00 - After Dark: The podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking history’s spookiest, strangest, and most sinister stories with historians Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling.
• Fri 12 Sept, 19:00 - Dan Snow’s History Hit - Historian Dan Snow investigates the 'how’ and 'why’ of history’s defining moments. From the Colosseum of Ancient Rome and the battlefields of Waterloo to the tomb of Tutankhamun, Dan journeys across the globe to share the greatest stories from the past that help us understand the present.

Tickets for the first wave of events go on sale Tuesday 1 July, starting at £11. For tickets and full programme details, visit https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/london-podcast-festival/.