His book No Off Switch is due out later this year.

"Radio DJ, travel journalist and world music pioneer Kershaw speaks on breakdowns, break-ups and broadcasting. One year Andy Kershaw was Billy Bragg's roadie, the next he was presenting "Live Aid" on TV to 400 million people.

He is a passionate enthusiast for music and a man with an obsessive curiosity about the world. Over the next 25 years, he worked for "The Rolling Stones", shared an office with John Peel, and introduced world and roots music to radio 1 (and later Radio 3). He also filed a lot of reports for radio 4, majoring in "The Axis of Evil".

Most recently, his marriage disastrously broke down, which led to his spending time in prison on the Isle of Man for breaking a restraining order. Andy Kershaw writes about all of this with candour, insight and immediacy. This is a real book by a man who has no truck with celebrity nonsense."