Andy Kershaw

Andy’s one-man show, The Adventures of Andy Kershaw, has become a hugely successful highlight of many literary festivals.

Fascinating and often hilarious, the two hour audio-visual presentation treats the audience to recollections from a life spent on the front lines of rock & roll, and on the front lines of some of the world’s most extreme and dangerous countries.

Andy Kershaw truly has No Off Switch. Already he has 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.

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 weighs seven tons.