{"id":252300,"date":"2025-07-10T02:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252300\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T02:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T02:12:19","slug":"best-moments-from-crossed-wires-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/252300\/","title":{"rendered":"Best moments from Crossed Wires 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last one has us in the feels<\/p>\n

This past weekend, podcast festival Crossed Wires absolutely rocked Sheffield city centre with live podcasts and events to please everyone.<\/p>\n

More than 20,000 people showed up across the weekend \u2013 making it officialy the largest podcast festival in the world.<\/p>\n

Amongst the general excitement of some of the country\u2019s favourite shows on the big stage, there were some pretty memorable moments that will be make next year\u2019s festival pretty hard to top. <\/p>\n

Crossed Wires catches a Day Fever<\/p>\n

Born out of the city itself, it wouldn\u2019t be a Sheffield party without a Day Fever. Brainchild of Line of Duty actress Vicky McClure, DJ John Owen and\u00a0 Jon \u2018The Rev\u2019 McClure from South Yorkshire\u2019s own Reverend and the Makers, the event creates a daytime nightclub that\u2019s safe and lets people be in bed before 11 pm.<\/p>\n

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Sara Cox and Clare Hamilton on the decks at DayFever (Credit: Pedalo Photography)<\/p>\n

Sara Cox and Clare Hamilton, from the Teen Commandments podcast, hosted Sunday\u2019s Day Fever in the iconic Sheffield City Hall Ballroom with the Rev coming on for a little boogie too. Crossed Wires isn\u2019t just for intelligent, funny conversations, you know!<\/p>\n

Nick Banks solves crime, drinks beer<\/p>\n

Fresh off Glastonbury and a sold out nationwide tour, Pulp drummer Nick Banks thought he\u2019d wind down with a nice can of beer from his Aldi bag in on appearance on Drunk Women Solving Crime. The true crime comedy podcast, hosted by Hannah George and Taylor Glenn, invites guests on to test their detective skills with some bottles on the side.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Emma Thompson Photography<\/p>\n

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A proud Sheffielder, Banks still lives in the city. From book signings at Division Street\u2019s Bear Tree Records, to even joining tribute band Pulp\u2019d on stage at Fake Festival in Endcliffe Park this May, he\u2019s always out and about the town.<\/p>\n

He put his local knowledge to good use by helping solve solve of the clues to the shows 1920s Sheffield mystery \u2013 including some tales of his own.<\/p>\n

Jarvis Cocker makes history<\/p>\n

Carrying on the Pulp pipeline, prodigal son of Sheffield Jarvis Cocker surprised the BBC 6 Fringe attendees on Friday morning by doing something weird, wacky and wonderful (typical Jarvis behaviour).<\/p>\n

The 4th of July marked the 100th birthday of the British Shipping Forecast, and what better way to celebrate than for Cocker himself to read it out. Projected onto a screen in the old Cole Brothers building, as part of the fringe, he remarked that, \u201cIt might be the best moment of my life.\u201d Again, just to put it in perspective, Pulp just played an insane surprise set at Glasto as well as many other incredible shows.<\/p>\n

As historic and iconic as this reading was, the Shipping Forecasts presenters did have some notes, with Viji Alles saying<\/a>, \u201cHe needs to work on his pacing, you need to get the whole show done in 11 minutes.\u201d\u00a0Maybe Cocker should stick to the stage in the long-term.<\/p>\n

Greg James roleplays with Sir Michael Palin<\/p>\n

Radio 1 DJ Greg James joined the Crossed Wires team this year, and took his liberty as Creative Director to create the Nobody Expects the Michael Palin Podcast!<\/p>\n

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Sir Michael Palin and Greg James (Pedalo Photography)<\/p>\n

Greg even wrote his own script for a hypothetical protein powder advert break (\u2018Around the World in 80 Wheys\u2019) featuring the duo, and we won\u2019t lie, Greg was more into it than Sir Michael.<\/p>\n

Audiences were also treated to an exclusive script reading of a deleted scene from the end 1979 Python film Life of Brian called the \u2018Martyrdom of St Brian\u2019.<\/p>\n

The Monty Python legend later joined Greg again for a special Radio 4 Rewinder live show as part of the BBC Sounds fringe fest the next morning.<\/p>\n

Help! I proposed to my girlfriend<\/p>\n

There were multiple wholesome moments throughout the week, but none can top the marriage proposal during Help I Sexted My Boss. Ettiqute expert William Hanson helped audience member Tristan plan his proposal during the interval, and Tristan got down on one knee to propose to his fianc\u00e9e Shona in the second half of the show.<\/p>\n

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A Help I Sexted My Boss engagement (Emma Thompson Photography)<\/p>\n

The audience was in bits, Tristan and Shona were in bits, and the co-host of the podcast, Jordan North, ran loops around the stage with excitement. Hanson also overlooked the whole ordeal in a controversial hybrid Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United striped shirt; it was truly a show for everyone.<\/p>\n

Mark your calendars: Crossed Wires returns 3rd to 5th July 2026.<\/p>\n

Featured images from Pedalo Photography \/ Emma Thompson Photography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last one has us in the feels This past weekend, podcast festival Crossed Wires absolutely rocked Sheffield…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-252300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114826520028174329","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}