My Dad was a tough West End bloke, ex Forces, spent his life on building sites as a bricklayer, or digging holes for the Northern Gas Board. Hands the size of shovels that I felt on my backside more than once. So when I was a kid you did what he said, with my Mam you...

I loved my time at Newcastle United, but very nearly lost my job before I started! I was headhunted by Kevin Keegan and Sir John Hall. The club needed a shake up, and they asked me to change the hosting and entertainment. So one afternoon, Sir John told me to get down...

There is a famous quote, that a lot of people purloin "I can resist anything but temptation", and it certainly is true when it comes to me. Due to my lifetime of sitting behind a microphone I am prone to podge, after years of being reasonably skinny. Yet temptation is...

Being a traditionally pasty looking ginger man the only way I get colour is if I go for a spray tan. I have only ever done it once and looked better but the experience was a nightmare. Firstly the place is full of people going in and out resembling the United Nations,...

Like an old Rainbow song, I was 'The Black Sheep Of The Family' and I guess some of you feel that way too. When I was very small I heard an argument over something that I had done between my Mam and Dad, and half way through out came the phrase "We didn't want him...

For those of you who have wandered way down the Alan Robson timeline seeing no end of weird clothes I've worn over the years will know that I have not exactly been a slave to fashion. My earliest clothes memory went back to me wanting what the bigger kids had, a Ben...

Just the other week a shocking story that really would fit in with all of my 'Grisly' tales, a man who worked in a morgue having sex with his customers. Apparently he admitted to having sex with 44 corpses, but they reckon it was probably in the hundreds. This is a...

When I was merely an ankle biter I discovered a bit of furniture that totally fascinated me, a thing called a Radiogram. It had a crocheted cover over the top and was topped with a dubious cheap ornament of a dog chewing a pipe. Then one day the cover came off, my Dad...

You don't have to say it, I know I'm a grown man, but I love EVERYTHING about Disney. Yet as a child I had no interest whatsoever, I was far more into DC and Marvel comics, Micky Mouse was just for kids. Then one day many years ago a fellow radio presenter called...

One of my most vivid memories of my Dad was him coming home one night, and he held his hand over his face. Ignoring me he said to my Mam "Audrey I don't want you getting upset, it looks bad but I'm OK. Are you listening?" She nodded and he moved his hand, his entire...