This website uses cookies. Read more about our cookie/privacy policy.

Accept and Close

The Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals

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.

Come back soon for details of the Crossed Wires Festival 2025 programme.

You might also like...

Sheffield Life, Loss and Death Festival

"Death is part of life. Let’s talk about it." Come back soon for details of the second edition of this festival in May, organised by Compassionate Sheffield.

Classical Weekend

Fri. 21 March 2025 — Sun. 23 March 2025

One big celebration of classical music. With pop-up performances in the Winter Garden, traditional sea shanties in beautiful Upper Chapel, a reimagining of the opera Carmen, and lots more.

Lunchtime Talk: Queer Sheffield

Tue. 25 February 2025

Weston Park Museum

Explore the city's queer past with Fiona Moorcroft from SAYiT – taking a glimpse of the bars, the events, and the lives of the LGBTQ+ community in Sheffield from the late 1800s to the late 1990s.

Nussaibah Younis: Fundamentally

Wed. 26 February 2025

Juno Books

Nussaibah Younis comes to Juno Books to talk about her hilarious, thoughtful debut novel. Fundamentally is about academic Nadia, who winds up in Iraq leading a chaotic UN scheme to deradicalise ISIS brides, after she’s dumped by her lover Rosie.