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Pam offers home truths about where we live. Poetry and sketches.

Pam offers home truths about where we live. Poetry and sketches with Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead. From January 2014.

Pam Ayres presents poems, stories and sketches about Home.

Pam talks about her first home, the impact of her grown up sons leaving home and downsizing. 

Plus, how making your home more 'vintage' can go too far - and how life changes when both partners retire. 

And what should you do when your partner's snoring becomes too much to bear?

With: 

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

Poems include: A September Song, My Little Grandson & Pollen on the Wind

Sketch writers: James Bugg, Jan Etherington, Claire Jones, Grainne McGuire, Andy Wolton and Tom Neenan.

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2014.

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