Wally Webb - "40 Years With BBC Radio Norfolk" - 8th May

Very much a change of tack again.

Wally Webb is best known as a presenter on BBC Radio Norfolk – and perhaps as the inspiration for Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge – but he’s had a long and varied career.

When BBC Radio Norfolk first came to Norwich they turned him down but he persisted and a chance meeting gave him his opportunity. His time with the BBC started when there was freedom to create spoofs and play his own choice of music. Over four decades Wally produced many programmes and visited every part of Norfolk, meeting innumerable stars, getting involved in banger racing and wrestling and adapting as new technology began to change the face of the industry. Still going strong in his seventies, the Covid pandemic finally brought his broadcasting career to an end. Well, not quite.