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BBC Sounds and Audible have joined forces with Crossed Wires, the UK’s biggest podcast festival, taking place in Sheffield between 4th-6th July 2025.

All weekend, fans will be able to attend special live shows featuring some of the BBC’s most popular podcasts and radio programmes, including Football Daily, Newscast and Evil Genius with Russell Kane – all of which will be recorded for BBC Sounds. Literary lovers can settle down with Sara Cox and bestselling author David Nicholls for a live edition of Radio 2 Book Club, and in Radio 4’s Rewinder, Greg James will be joined by a very special guest to dig deep into the BBC Archives and uncover an array of audio gems.

Fans of Radio 4’s epic investigative series will be able to go behind the scenes of their favourite narrative podcasts with Gabriel Gatehouse (The Coming Storm) and Sue Mitchell (To Catch a Scorpion...

Greg James joins the Crossed Wires team as Creative Director to help grow the podcast festival. He becomes a co-owner of the business alongside Alice Levine (Co-host My Dad Wrote A Porno and British Scandal); Dino Sofos and James O'Hara.

Crossed Wires brings the biggest names in podcasting to Sheffield for a weekend of live shows, never-seen-before performances, special guests, DJ sets, Q&As and fan events. The festival returns for its second year between Friday 4th to Sunday 6th July andpromises to be even bigger and better.

Alongside presenting the nation's beloved BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show, Greg is co-host of the famed Tailenders podcast, together with international cricketer James Anderson and ex-The Maccabees guitarist Felix White, which has been releasing weekly for over seven years.

Greg James says, “After banging on about how amazing podcasts are for 20 years, I’m glad the world’s finally caught on. It...

Exclusive: UK radio host Greg James has become Creative Director of the nascent Crossed Wires podcast festival.

James, who hosts one of the BBC’s most popular radio shows, has been tasked with helping grow the one-year-old Sheffield fest and has joined the company that runs it alongside My Dad Wrote a Porno host Alice Levine, ex-News Agents producer Dino Sofos and James O’Hara.

The fest launched last year with the likes of Katherine Ryan, Jon Ronson, comedian Adam Buxton and Made in Chelsea’s Jamie Laing on the bill. Announced so far this year are DJ Jordan North, etiquette expert William Hanson and a group of Qi researchers.

James is well known to millions of UK radio listeners via his BBC Radio 1 Breakfast show. He also presents the Tailenders cricket podcast and was host of Channel 4’s short-lived Rise and Fall gameshow.

James said: “After banging on...

My Dad Wrote a Porno host Alice Levine and The News Agents producer Dino Sofos are launching a British podcast festival.

The Crossed Wires festival will take place in Sheffield from May 31 to June 2, featuring the likes of Katherine Ryan, Jon Ronson, comedian Adam Buxton and Made in Chelsea’s Jamie Laing.

It is being organized by Levine, Sofos and James O’Hara, the latter of whom co-founded the Tramlines Festival, which also takes place in Sheffield.

“Crossed Wires is set to be podcasting’s biggest party,” said the organizers. “This new festival will host the most exciting podcasting talent in Sheffield for three days, so expect to bump into the voices you always have in your headphones at one of the food pop-ups, or rub shoulders with your favourite presenters at one of the many after parties.”

In a similar vein to Tramlines, Crossed Wires said venues around the city...

A full Free Movie of the Day is posted on the JoBlo Horror Movies YouTube channel every other day during the week – but on Fridays things get even freakier and a little more fun. Get your weekend started the right way by indulging in Friday Fright Nights! Every Friday, we’ll be taking a look at another genre movie you can watch in its entirety, free of charge, either on the YouTube channel linked above or in the video embed here.

The Friday Fright Night feature we have for you this week may seem a bit familiar to some of you, because we have shared it as a free movie on JoBlo / Arrow in the Head previously… But its title is The Evil Rises, and how could we resist sharing a movie called The Evil Rises on the same Friday as the release of Evil Dead Rise? We couldn’t.

Richard Widmark reportedly used his clout to amp up this revisionist western, but the result seems forced at best, and hampered by Universal’s TV-grade production values. The sober screenplay brings in good ideas but the execution can’t quite hold its own with the more progressive westerns of the genre-changing years 1968-’69. A cast of familiar faces makes much of it look fresh: Carroll O’Connor’s venal saloon keeper steals the show, while interesting casting gives us Lena Horne as Widmark’s romantic partner.

Death of a Gunfighter

Region B Blu-ray

Powerhouse Indicator

1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 94 min. / working title Patch / Street Date February 27, 2023 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99

Starring: Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O’Connor, David Opatashu, Kent Smith, Jacqueline Scott, Morgan Woodward, Larry Gates, Dub Taylor, John Saxon, Darleen Carr, Michael McGreevey, Royal Dano, James (Jimmy) Lydon, Kathleen Freeman, Harry Carey Jr., Walter Sande, Victor French.

Cinematography:...

On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the witchcraft horror film The Evil Rises – a movie we had previously posted as a Friday Fright Nights feature a while back. Then we ran into some YouTube issues and had to take The Evil Rises down for a while… but now it’s back! You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.

Here’s what was written about The Evil Rises for Friday Fright Nights:

Don’t you love it when a movie gets right to the point? That’s certainly what this week’s Friday Fright Nights feature does.

The first James Bond film, ‘Dr. No,” starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Jack Lord and Joseph Wiseman, opened in England on Oct. 2, 1962. But the 007 classic didn’t open in New York and Los Angeles until May 29, 1963. Let’s travel back almost six decades to look at the top events, movie, TV series, books and other cultural events of that year in James Bond history, which was punctuated by the tragic assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on Nov. 22.

35th Annual Academy Awards

Best Picture: “Lawrence of Arabia”

Best Director: David Lean, “Lawrence of Arabia”

Best Actor: Gregory Peck, “To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Actress: Anne Bancroft, “The Miracle Worker”

Best Supporting Actor: Ed Begley, “Sweet Bird of Youth”

Best Supporting Actress: Patty Duke, “The Miracle Worker”

Top 10 highest grossing films

“Cleopatra”

“How the West Was Won”

“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”

“Tom Jones”

“Irma La Douce...