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...
This programme focuses on the largest sea-borne invasion in modern history and one of the world's most tightly kept secrets. It brings together despatches from the BBC War Correspondents who brought up-to-the-minute, graphic descriptions of the events to the listening public. This is a unique collection, a chance to hear history in the making: the day and the hour of D-Day June 1944.