The London Podcast Festival is back for its 11th year, and the lineup spans wrestling, Jameela Jamil and very bad advice for children
The UK’s original podcast festival returns to Kings Place from 3 to 13 September 2026, with No Such Thing As A Fish, Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil, Richard Bacon and the Empire Film Podcast among the first wave of shows announced.
Eleven years in and the London Podcast Festival still feels like the best kind of niche obsession made public. What started as Europe’s first major podcast festival in 2016 has welcomed over 68,000 visitors and 750 podcasts to its Kings Place stages, and the 2026 edition is as eclectic as any it’s put together.
Running from 3 to 13 September, the festival takes over all of Kings Place’s spaces, from the main hall to the canal-side terrace, with selected shows also available via livestream. The programme spans comedy, film, gardening, wrestling, disability-led storytelling, audio drama, current affairs and British Asian culture, which is either a sign of podcasting’s remarkable range or of a festival that has genuinely never met a genre it didn’t want to platform.
The highlights
No Such Thing As A Fish returns on Saturday 12 September for an evening of facts, dorkery and further facts, and for the first time ever the Fish team are also bringing their listener correspondence show Drop Us A Line to a live audience on the same afternoon. Both shows have a livestream option.
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil arrives on Friday 11 September. Jamil’s self-described anti-inspirational comedy disaster podcast is exactly the kind of thing that works better live than it has any right to, and this is its London Podcast Festival debut.
The Empire Film Podcast returns on Saturday 5 September with hosts Chris Hewitt, Helen O’Hara and James Dyer, a special guest and the promise of a lot of strong opinions about film. A festival staple and rightly so.
Caitlin Moran appears on Friday 4 September with Outsiding, a new podcast she co-hosts with Adam Frost celebrating the simple joys of nature, wildlife, gardening and being outdoors, which is not what you’d necessarily expect from the author of How to Be a Woman but sounds exactly right for it.
Richard Bacon is back on Thursday 10 September with Why Are You More Successful Than Me?, his interview series asking successful people the question that keeps him up at night. First guest confirmed is Johnny Vaughan.
Wrestle Me! returns on Saturday 12 September after seven years of sold-out shows. If you know, you know. If you don’t, this is the year to find out.
Beef and Dairy Network Podcast, Benjamin Partridge’s genuinely strange and wonderful award-winning comedy, comes back on Saturday 12 September with a brand-new live edition.
Wooden Overcoats, the British Podcast Award-winning audio drama sitcom, brings a brand-new live episode on Sunday 6 September, with a livestream option for those who can’t make it in person.
For families, Ask the Nincompoops with Andy Stanton and Carrie Quinlan on Saturday 12 September promises to answer children’s trickiest questions very, very badly, which is an accurate description and a recommendation.
New for 2026
Ade Oladipo Presents… The Green Chair LIVE sold out its debut in 2025 and returns on Thursday 10 September with an even bigger night of boxing, football, culture and surprise guests. Black Prose, Yolanthe Fawehinmi’s archive of Black writers’ stories, makes its festival debut on Saturday 12 September. Shaping Tomorrow from Hear Art, the BSL-interpreted video podcast spotlighting deaf and hearing creatives, is also on the Saturday bill.
The London x London Take: The London Podcast Festival has figured out something that a lot of live events haven’t: that the point isn’t to replicate the podcast experience but to create something that can only happen in a room. The intimacy between fans and creators is genuine, the programming is genuinely diverse rather than performatively so, and tickets starting at £13 keep it accessible. Book early. The Fish shows will sell out first.
Need to Know
- Where: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG
- When: 3 to 13 September 2026
- Price: From £13, first wave on sale now
- Livestream: Selected shows available globally
