Andy Kershaw obituary

Broadcaster who brought world music to a mainstream audience on BBC Radio 1 and travelled widely to report on conflict and the cultures that fascinated him Andy Kershaw, who has died aged 66 after undergoing treatment for cancer, made his name as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 by bringing world music to a wide audience, and established himself as a journalist reporting for radio on wars and horrors in far-flung places. “I think initially Radio 1 wanted another [John] Peel,” he told the Independent in 2012…