Adam
Webb 
Mercia Sound started broadcasting on my 21st birthday.
Then, on the day that John Lennon died, I responded to a request
from Gordon Astley to bring down a copy of Imagine.
We got talking, and the rest is history. I ended up writing comedy lines
for the breakfast show, gophering in the News Room during breakfast show
hours, choosing the 'Mercia Mount' for those who like a bet, and inventing
stuff to entertain and involve listeners.
I was the bloke who wrote much of the material Gordon used on his
breakfast show. On-air, he referred to me as Spider, due to my
surname being Webb.
Every Monday, I'd turn in a stack of new jokes typed on cue cards, and
Gordon's skill was to take those and make it sound like he'd just thought
of the line.
I also originated things like Claws the Porridge Pussy, We had an exhibition
at the Herbert art gallery, when listeners swamped us with drawings of
the fictional cat.
Wall of entrants
Best individual competition entry
Gordon Astley & Adam 'Spider' Webb
I also wrote most of the Lateral Thinking puzzles used by Andy Lloyd.
When Gordon left the station, I was unceremoniously told that my services
were no longer required. I left to join Gordon on the Tiswas Roadshow,
as the Phantom Flan-Flinger!
After that I did a series of shows for CHBS, then briefly for the Voice of
Peace radio ship, and eventually became a full time DJ, mobile and for
Warner Holidays. These days I'm computer expert, digital artist and,
predictably, a writer.
http://www.inkdigital.org
Mercia Sound started broadcasting on my 21st birthday.
Then, on the day that John Lennon died, I responded to a request
from Gordon Astley to bring down a copy of Imagine.
We got talking, and the rest is history. I ended up writing comedy lines
for the breakfast show, gophering in the News Room during breakfast show
hours, choosing the 'Mercia Mount' for those who like a bet, and inventing
stuff to entertain and involve listeners.
I was the bloke who wrote much of the material Gordon used on his
breakfast show. On-air, he referred to me as Spider, due to my
surname being Webb.
Every Monday, I'd turn in a stack of new jokes typed on cue cards, and
Gordon's skill was to take those and make it sound like he'd just thought
of the line.
I also originated things like Claws the Porridge Pussy, We had an exhibition
at the Herbert art gallery, when listeners swamped us with drawings of
the fictional cat.
Wall of entrants
Best individual competition entry
Gordon Astley & Adam 'Spider' Webb
I also wrote most of the Lateral Thinking puzzles used by Andy Lloyd.
When Gordon left the station, I was unceremoniously told that my services
were no longer required. I left to join Gordon on the Tiswas Roadshow,
as the Phantom Flan-Flinger!
After that I did a series of shows for CHBS, then briefly for the Voice of
Peace radio ship, and eventually became a full time DJ, mobile and for
Warner Holidays. These days I'm computer expert, digital artist and,
predictably, a writer.
http://www.inkdigital.org
