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Ayres on the Air

Comedy: Sketch

Pam Ayres presents a series packed with poetry, anecdotes and sketches

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Ayres on the Air: Series 1: Human Deterioration

Human Deterioration

Series 1

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Poetry and sketches with Pam Ayres, Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead.

Sexy at 60? and going topless. Poetry and sketches with Pam Ayres, Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead. From July 2004.

Pam Ayres kicks off her own series of poetry and sketches.

She's starting with the theme of deterioration.. of eyesight, figure, memory......the list goes on!  

Featuring poems about being Too Fat and buying a Wonderbra. 

Plus sketches about being Topless at 60 and how to spice up your love life with a little celebrity fantasy.  

With: 

Geoffrey Whitehead 
Felicity Montagu  

Written by Pam Ayres, Chris Thompson, Peter Reynolds and Jan Etherington.

Producer: Claire Jones 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004.

Ayres on the Air: Series 1

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Pam Ayres presents her own poetry and sketches.

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