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

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Ayres on the Air: Series 2: The Old Days

The Old Days

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Pam remembers her father's woollen swimming costume.

Pam considers aging and nostalgia.  More light-hearted verse - with Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead. From April 2006.

Pam Ayres looks back to those 'good old days' - including imperial versus metric and her dad's woollen swimming costume.

More verses and sketches.  

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 April 2006.

Ayres on the Air: Series 2

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