Crossed Wires Festival 2026 - British Scandal
Crossed Wires Festival 2026 - British Scandal at Sheffield City Hall and Memorial Hall
About the show
In a country obsessed with gossip, the great and the good fear one thing more than any other - scandal. British scandals change the course of history. They bring down governments, overthrow the rich and cause the mighty to fall. Some are about sex, others about money. In the end, they're all about power.
Hosted by Alice Levine and Matt Forde.
Featuring - Alice Levine
Alice Levine is an English radio and television presenter, writer and narrator. She was a radio DJ for BBC Radio 1 from 2013 to 2020. She co-created and presented the podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno, and is the co-founder of the podcast festival Crossed Wires.
Matt Forde
Matt is a writer on 8 Out Of 10 Cats and Stand-Up for the Week and can also be heard on his own late night phone-in show on the Sony-Award winning talkSPORT.
'A first class comic' (The Guardian)
'Highly engaging, inherently funny... an innate ability to ad lib laughs out of thin air' (Chortle.co.uk)
'Manages to combine infectious enthusiasm with astutely well-informed political opinions' (Three Weeks).