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of entrants below:
Best individual competition entry
Gordon Astley and Adam 'Spider' Webb
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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.
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
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Kevin.Sykes@kps.org.uk 
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
