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Andy Kershaw truly has no off switch. Already he's lived ten lives to everyone else's one. As a teenager, he was promoting major rock gigs. He was Billy Bragg's driver and roadie one day and presenting Whistle Test and Live Aid the next. A born rebel and a maverick, he's combined his passion for music with a lunatic curiosity and an instinct for frontline journalism, reporting for the BBC and the broadsheets from the world's most extreme countries – Iraq, North Korea (he's been four times), Haiti, Angola and Rwanda during the genocide.

Whether it applies to foreign adventures, romances, motorcycles, nervous breakdowns or relationships with a piece of music, Andy has always lived by his most reliable maxim: if you're going to have one, have a big one.

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Andy Kershaw

Andy Kershaw truly has no off switch. Already he has lived 10 lives to everyone else's one. As a teenager he was promoting major rock gigs. He was Billy Bragg's driver and roadie one day and presenting Whistle Test and Live Aid the next. Andy is among the UK's most decorated broadcasters, working for Radio 4 and for 15 years Radio 1 where he shared an office with John Peel. More recently a presenter on Radio 3, he has also worked for the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. His record collection weights seven tons!
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