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Pam Ayres' Open Road

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The poet and broadcaster embarks on a UK road trip, taking in the lives of the locals

Pam Ayres' Open Road: Series 1: Episode 1: The Vale of the White Horse

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Episode 1: The Vale of the White Horse

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The Vale of the White Horse

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Tales of tanks on streets and playground peril as the poet's road trip kicks off.

Tales of tanks on streets and playground peril as the poet's road trip kicks off in her birthplace in Oxfordshire. From October 2000.

Tales of tanks on the streets and peril in the playground, as Pam revisits her birthplace - the Oxfordshire village of Stanford-in-the-Vale.

Series in which poet and raconteuse, Pam Ayres takes to the open road, visiting eight places in Britain to hear tales from the people who live there. 

Producer: Simon Elmes

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 2000.

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