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Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection

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More recently Ayres has become a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, appearing in programmes such as Just a Minute, Say the Word, That Reminds Me, and six series of her own show, Ayres on the Air, a radio show of her poetry and sketches.

This definitive collection brings to life the charming characters and voices of all creatures great and small through Pam's poetry over the last five decades. Emerging from a career in military intelligence to find fame on the television talent show Opportunity Knocks, Ayres’ deceptively simple approach has seen her verse tackle life in all its pathos and glory. She wrote and recorded six series of her Radio 4 programme Ayres on the Air, the latest of which was broadcast in 2018. Pam Ayres has been a regular on television and radio since winning the talent show Opportunity Knocks in 1975 - on Just a Minute, The Comedy Quiz, Countdown and her own series, Ayres on the Air. The Works' contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems from the seventies and eighties, including The Battery Hen, Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In, Sling Another Chair Leg On The Fire, Mother and, of course, Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth.The Management" Slight rubbing to spine, one corner of front wrap slightly creased, odd insignificant tiny marks to wraps, otherwise VG. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. In a 2006 interview (aired on Radio New Zealand's Nine To Noon programme, 24 October 2006), she stated that, at the age of twelve, she enjoyed writing parodies of the Lonnie Donegan songs popular at that time.

Whilst serving in the air force, she gained O-level passes in English language and English literature and began her career as an entertainer.First published in 1997, this book includes many of Pam’s most popular earlier poems including Yes I’ll Marry You My Dear, Will I Have To Be Sexy at Sixty, The Wonderbra, and How Can That Be. The poet John Cooper Clarke has cited Ayres's early success on Opportunity Knocks as being highly influential on his career. So I had a few poems, and I wrote a few more, and I used to stand up and recite those in the folk club, and as a result of that, anybody who was organising something charitable in the area tended to say "Would you come along too, Pam, and give us one of your famous poems?

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