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Ayres on the Air: Series 5: Self-Sufficiency

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Pam Ayres talks about her love of allotments, beekeeping and knitting.

The wonder of allotments and beekeeping. Poetry and sketches with Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead. From January 2014.

Pam Ayres regales her audience with poems, stories and sketches on another subject close to her heart: self-sufficiency. 

Pam discusses her love of allotments, knitting and her more recent love of beekeeping.

With:
Felicity Montagu
Geoffrey Whitehead as Pam's long-suffering husband 'Gordon'.

Poems include: The Allotment Rustler, Over-Penguinisation, Behold My Bold Provider, Stuck on You and The Litter Moron.

Sketch writers: James Bugg, Grainne McGuire, Andy Wolton and Tom Neenan.

Producer: Claire Jones.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.

Ayres on the Air: Series 5

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