No Off Switch by Andy Kershaw – review

Vitriol, pride and self-pity are the main ingredients in Andy Kershaw's sad memoirI have personal experience of Andy Kershaw's absent off switch. In March 2008, during the period when, thanks to alcohol and the break-up of his relationship with the mother of his two children, he hit rock bottom, I was dispatched to the Isle of Man to interview him. When I arrived at his house on Peel's seafront, he was not there. Earlier that morning, he'd been arrested for harassing his former partner. The sad ...

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