The Adventures of Andy Kershaw

"I make it a rule not to puff books but Andy Kershaw's NO OFF SWITCH is sensational. An amazing read. An amazing man." - Stephen Fry tweet, 21 December 2011

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.

Andy is among the UK's most-decorated broadcasters, working for Radio 4 and, for fifteen years, as a Radio 1 DJ, where he shared an office with John Peel and legendary producer John Walters.  It was Andy's enthusiasms that made him the central figure in the popularisation of world music.  More recently a presenter on Radio 3, he has also worked for the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen.  His record collection weighs seven tons and he's seen his own intestines.  He's been knocked down but he's back up again - as strong as a monkey's tail!

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.

Stephen Fry on Andy Kershaw's recently published autobiography "NO OFF SWITCH"
"Andy Kershaw has led an extraordinary life. His unrivalled role in bringing World Music to the ears of the west is just part of the story of this man whose zest for life, music, people, experience and travel made him the finest British broadcaster bar none. That his life has had its ups and downs is to say that the Alps have snowy peaks, but throughout this dizzyingly paced and often wildly hilarious book he brings alive his matchless career, and the cultural life of a Britain that seems to be vanishing. Forget Media Studies and a life of student debt: read NO OFF SWITCH and learn what it is to be a real broadcast journalist, a real achiever. A real someone."

The Adventures of Andy Kershaw
The Alhambra Studio
Wednesday 22 February, 8pm
Tickets £15, Concessions £13
Bradford Theatres Box Office on 01274 432000
bradford-theatres.co.uk

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