Writer, poet and broadcaster, Pam Ayres has been making her fans smile for more than thirty years since her first television appearance on "Opportunity Knocks". This recording is taken from four of Pam's live shows for her BBC Radio 4 series "Ayres on the Air", and is packed with her usual mix of comic poetry, prose and droll observations on life. Pam Ayres has recently been 'rediscovered' via her appearances on...
Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star in Ladies of Letters and Ladies of More Letters, the two popular BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour series. Patricia Routledge is Vera Small and Prunella Scales is her friend (or maybe enemy), Irene Spencer. The two pass their time in regular correspondence and not an event goes by that is left unrecorded by the ladies of letters. Firstly there are the usual family problems to...