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Andy Kershaw to return to the BBC
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 24 August 2010
Andy Kershaw will present a new show on BBC Radio 3. Entitled ‘Music Planet’, it will see Kershaw and co-presenter Lucy Duran travel to remote destinations around the world to record the music performed by local musicians. The show will visit the same destinations as BBC One’s ‘Human Planet’, a new anthropological series “celebrating man’s remarkable ingenuity and success as a species”.
As previously reported, Kershaw was jailed for three months in January 2008 for breaching a restraining order barring him from contacting his former partner, Juliette Banner. He served 44 days of his sentence, but was then arrested again three days after his release for another breach, at which point he was given a six month suspended sentence and advised to leave his home on the Isle Of Man.
He returned to Rochdale to live with his mother, but went on the run after a further breach resulted in a warrant for his arrest being issued in September 2008. He was arrested again in December the same year after returning to the Isle Of Man and given a second six month suspended sentence. So it’s probably a good idea to have a project which involves travelling a very, very long way away from the Isle of Man.
Kershaw’s said of his return to radio: “I am thrilled to be back on Radio 3 working again with a team of bright, imaginative, enthusiastic people who also happen to be dear friends. Nowhere on Earth is safe again from my attentions. So far, we have, literally, hacked through mountain jungles to bring ‘Music Planet’ listeners extraordinary music from some of the world’s most isolated locations. And I cheerily risked incineration at a rocket festival in Thailand to take our Radio 3 audience into the fiery thick of the action”.
He continued: “I have been even to Switzerland, the last country in which I expected to find myself. And, if listeners thought that yodelling was valuable only as a device to evict stragglers at the end of a party, or as a sure-fire way to secure an international novelty hit in 1956, the music we recorded in the Alps will – like so much to be heard in ‘Music Planet’ – shatter such preconceptions and, simultaneously, delight and exhilarate”.
The show’s producer, James Parkin added: “What makes ‘Music Planet’ so exciting for me is that one minute you’re listening to Cambodian hip hop, and the next Swiss yodelling recorded in the Alps. And this is the music that people are making right now, all over the world, recorded especially for Radio 3”.
‘Music Planet’ and ‘Human Planet’ are due to air in the autumn.
