Crossed Wires, the podcast festival that broke new ground last year, is set to return for 2025.
12,000 people descended on Sheffield City Centre for last year's inaugural festival for live podcasts featuring the likes of Katherine Ryan, Danny Robins, Katie Price, Jon Ronson and Adam Buxton.
This festival is made for podcast fans, with all the best shows in one place – think the Edinburgh Fringe for podcasts.
Alice Levine, Crossed Wires co-founder
The festival is now set to return to the northern city from 4th-6th July 2025, promising some of the biggest names in podcasting across a variety of genres.
Organisers are already beginning to deliver on that promise, announcing Help I Sexted My Boss, and No Such Thing as a Fish, as 2025 headliners.
For Sexted fans this is something of an exclusive, with Crossed Wires announcing this will be Jordan North and William Hanson's only live show of the year. The pair will take to Sheffield City Hall on Saturday 5th July after their live tour last year sold out 15,000 tickets in just three hours.
The following day, the same venue will welcome No Such Thing as a Fish, the long-running and popular show featuring the QI "elves" and the weird and wonderful things they've stumbled across in their research. The show has racked up over 500 million listens across the past decade, plenty of which have been down to Podcast Rex staff.
More acts are to be announced with a significant free program offered via the Crossed Wires Festival Fringe. As with last year's event, the festival is being made in partnership with the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority.
Tickets will be available from Friday 14th February.
