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Crossed Wires Festival

Fri. 4 July 2025 — Sun. 6 July 2025

Ticket prices vary

Sheffield's Crossed Wires Festival brings some of the UK's top names in podcasting from your headphones to the stage for one weekend.

Following its launch event in 2024, the festival returns in July 2025.

Expect another incredible lineup of podcasting talent across comedy, current affairs, culture and more. Plus food pop-ups, after parties and fringe events.

So far, the 2025 programme includes matchmaking icon Paul C. Brunson’s We Need to Talk, cricket legend Jimmy Anderson’s Tailender’s to broadcasting powerhouses Nick Grimshaw’s Dish, comedy podcast Drunk Women Solving Crime, and more.

BBC Sounds Fringe

For 2025’s Crossed Wires, BBC Sounds will be joining in the audio fun, hosting the BBC Sounds Fringe programme of events in the old John Lewis building (open 11am–10pm).

Among their FREE lineup is: Gardeners' Question Time, the Shipping Forecast, Football Daily, Newscast, Rewinder with Greg James, Radio 2 Book Club with Sara Cox, One Person Found This Helpful with Frank Skinner, Indie Forever and Unwind Your Mind – book in advance.

There'll also be a bar, food stalls and relaxed open-air listening on deck chairs and bean bags in the garden in Barker’s Pool out front (BBC Sounds Garden open 11am–6pm).

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