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Pam Ayres MBE (born 14 March 1947) is an English poet, songwriter and presenter of radio and television programmes. Her 1975 appearance on the television talent show Opportunity Knocks led to a variety of appearances on TV and radio shows, a one-woman touring stage show and performing before the Queen.
Pam Ayres was born at Stanford in the Vale in the English county of Berkshire, now in Oxfordshire. After leaving Faringdon Secondary School at the age of 15, she joined the Civil Service as a clerical assistant and worked at the Army (RAOC) Central Ordnance Depot in Bicester. She soon left and signed up for the Women's Royal Air Force, where she worked in a drawing office dealing with operational maps, and it was there that she chose her career as an entertainer. She began reading her verses at the local folk club in Oxfordshire, and this led to an invitation to read on the local BBC Radio station in 1974. Her reading was re-broadcast nationally, and then broadcast again as one of the BBC's Pick of the Year.
Pam Ayres - They Should Have Asked My Husband.mpg
Pam Ayres - "Oh I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth" - stereo
Pam Ayres: Dad's Swimming Costume
Pam Ayres - A Poem About Physical Exercise
Wedding by Pam Ayres
Snore by Pam Ayres
Seagull by Pam Ayres
Pam Ayres - In Defence of Hedgehogs (Audio only)
Hope by Pam Ayres
Tippy Tappy by Pam Ayres