• 09 2025 June

    Podcast 37 – 7th June 2025

    Featuring the Jaywalkers, a talented trio from Frodsham who sound as though they come from Knob Lick, Kentucky. Plus lots more ripe plums from the Kershaw fruit-basket....

  • 10 2025 April

    Podcast 36 – 10th April 2025

    Featuring Greg Brice, a virtuoso guitarist who sings like Lowell George, plus the usual mix of Americana, Africana and all-round kicks in the earhole....

  • 11 2025 March

    Podcast 35 – 9th March 2025

    Featuring the most thronged kitchen yet as we welcome Martin Stephenson and five other members of Newcastle's Jumpin' Hot Club Revue, led by Shipcote who founded it forty years ago....

  • 17 2025 February

    Podcast 34 – 15th February 2025

    Featuring singer-guitarist Gus Glynn who gives us a stunning kitchen session, plus delightful ditties on such themes as silver dollars, English policewomen and singing in the bath....

  • 28 2025 January

    Podcast 33 – 27th January 2025

    Thanks for waiting! I’m back with a stunning show, featuring the Liverpudlian maestro of the weirdly-tuned guitar, James Rigby. This is the free-for-all version, including my tribute to Garth Hudson....

  • 10 2024 October

    Podcast 32 – 10th October 2024

    Featuring Robyn Hitchcock in Kershaw’s kitchen, tributes to Rise Kagona and Kris Kristofferson…  and a game of ‘one song to the tune of another.’...

  • 15 2024 August

    Podcast 31 – 15th August 2024

    Featuring Martin Carthy in Kershaw’s kitchen, plus lots of songs and a joke about Joni Mitchell....

  • 11 2024 June

    Podcast 30 – 11th June 2024

    Featuring Oklahoma-born singer-songwriter Bob Collum, with Mags Layton (violin) and Martin Cutmore (bass), in Kershaw’s kitchen, plus lots of songs that aren’t by Taylor Swift....

  • 12 2024 April

    Podcast 29 – 12th April 2024

    Featuring Rik Lord, the most talented guitarist ever to be discovered busking outside a Todmorden supermarket, plus a crafted collection of magnificent music for you to fall in love with....

  • 26 2024 February

    Podcast 28 – 25th February 2024

    Featuring a kitchen session with Leeds rockers The Burner Band. We’ve also got boogie, country, Africana, Americana, folk, soul and gospel....

Andy's Autobiography

No Off Switch Audio Book

Listen To Excerpts From The Audio Book

April 29, 2014 | 0 Comments

Here are some excerpts from the audio book version of No Off Switch. You can buy a copy...

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Andy Kershaw No Off Switch

Read Excerpts From No Off Switch

March 31, 2014 | 0 Comments

Here are two chapters of No Off Switch available to download in PDF format. Chapter 18 The Rolling...

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Andy Kershaw No Off Switch

Praise for No Off Switch

August 2, 2013 | 0 Comments

‘I make it a rule not to puff books but Andy Kershaw’s NO OFF SWITCH is sensational. An...

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Andy’s Jukebox

July 19, 2013 | 0 Comments

A playlist of the Andy’s favourites posted to the Andy Kershaw Facebook page. For a full list of...

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Radio Highlights

More programmes on the Radio page.

Robbie Robertson

AK Meets Robbie Robertson

December 11, 2016 | 0 Comments

To mark the publication, in November 2016, of Robbie Robertson’s autobiography, Testimony, Andy spoke to the former guitarist...

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In the control room, probably listening to a playback of Like A Rolling Stone, 16 June 1965. On the far right is organist, Al Kooper.

Highway 61: Fifty Years On

October 31, 2015 | 0 Comments

Andy’s radio documentary to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan’s record ‘Highway 61 Revisited’....

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Bob Dylan - Ghosts Of Electricity

Bob Dylan – Ghosts Of Electricity

August 31, 2013 | 0 Comments

Ghosts of Electricity is Andy Kershaw’s radio documentary about Bob Dylan & The Hawks’ infamous May 17th 1966...

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Television Reports

More television reports, and documentaries, on the Television pages.

Andy visits the workshop of The Bluebird Project in North Shields to see how the restoration of Donald...

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Hendrix in Ilkley!

February 20, 2017 | 0 Comments

To mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most unlikely gigs in rock & roll history, AK...

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AK Meets Keith Richards

October 10, 2015 | 0 Comments

For the One Show, Andy meets – at last – The Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards to discuss...

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Johnny Marr

AK Meets Johnny Marr

October 10, 2015 | 0 Comments

For the One Show, Andy meets former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr to talk about Bert Jansch, one of...

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At last! North Korean propaganda posters…

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