Pam Ayres
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Oct 2, 2026
Stuart BluesHOST
You know that one, Adam?
Adam LloydHOST
Was that Pam Ayers, did you say, or?
Stuart BluesHOST
Who?
Adam LloydHOST
You've not heard of Pam Ayers, the poet? Oh, no.
Stuart BluesHOST
I've heard of Edgar Allan Poe.
Adam LloydHOST
No, I don't know.
Adam LloydHOST
Was that
Stuart BluesHOST
Pam Ayers?
Adam LloydHOST
Did you say who? Who? You've not heard of Pam Ayers, the poet? No, I've heard of Edgar
Stuart BluesHOST
Allan Poe.
Stuart BluesHOST
No, I don't know.
Stuart BluesHOST
You know that one, Adam?
Adam LloydHOST
Was that Pam Ayers, did you say?
Stuart BluesHOST
Who?
Adam LloydHOST
You've not heard of Pam Ayers, the poet? I've heard of Edgar
Stuart BluesHOST
Allan Poe.
Stuart BluesHOST
No, I don't know.
Dirk the DiceHOST
Definitely.
BlythyGUEST
And he'd have to compete with Pam Ayres, I wish he looked after me teeth, wouldn't he? If you wrote a poem about teeth, that's the standard he'd be up against.
BlythyGUEST
Very difficult.
BlythyGUEST
I wish he looked after me teeth.
Dirk the DiceHOST
Yeah.
Dirk the DiceHOST
And when I was at primary school, Pam Ayres and Richard Adams were like, I like
BlythyGUEST
what you did there I was wondering when we get on to the actual drifted off the poet laureate and our mares when are we going to get on to people are people are listening
Dirk the DiceHOST
for
Steve HanleyHOST
She wrote loads.
Simon ArmitageGUEST
I love Pam Ayres.
Simon ArmitageGUEST
I do.
Simon ArmitageGUEST
I used to do a radio show called The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed, and we had Pam in there, and she was fantastic.
Paul HanleyHOST
What a poem that was.
Paul HanleyHOST
Where are my car keys?
Simon ArmitageGUEST
Pam Ayres, I wish I'd looked after my car keys.
Paul HanleyHOST
No, but when I'm thinking of responsibility, say the death of Diana.
Margaret Cabourn-SmithHOST
Yes, lovely.
Margaret Cabourn-SmithHOST
I sound exactly like Pam Ayres immediately.
Joanna NearyGUEST
So yeah, there was this little boy, I can't remember his name, but he was a traveller child.
Joanna NearyGUEST
So we went to a school where the traveller children were allowed to go.
Hannah DunleavyHOST
In fact, my boss, Sarah Millican, I think belongs to that tradition.
Hannah DunleavyHOST
It's about being... unashamedly ordinary and yet seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary I think Sally Wainwright the writer also lives in this tradition and Pam Ayres yes definitely
Hilary BracegirdleGUEST
so yes you've very much got that tradition but rather like Pam Ayres is maybe still put in a sort of pocket of being a bit too easy yeah Whereas Benjamin, who knew how to embellish his work and suck up to the right people.
Hilary BracegirdleGUEST
What was interesting, I think, is that there are two categories of people who embraced her.
Hilary BracegirdleGUEST
The ones that maybe felt left out and not seen normally, and I would say who identified as working class.
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With Silver Bullet from 1985 being screened.
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And over in Dorchester at the Thomas Hardy School, it's Pam Ayres with Doggedly Onward, A Life in Poems from Five.
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The Rook Lane in Froome have got Chameleon with a Woodwind Ensemble from Three.
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And at the Treehouse in Froome, it's David Thomas Broughton with some folk and experimental music.
CrispinHOST
In storytelling terms, it's the humour of recognition.
CrispinHOST
Now, in last week's episode, we looked at the lyrics of Dolly Parton and the verses of Pam Ayres, and the humour of recognition came from the fact that their subject matter was so instantly recognisable.
CrispinHOST
With a limerick, it's often absurd or quirky.
CrispinHOST
It's the poetic structure that we recognise.
Deborah AlmaGUEST
And the poem I read was a
Claire FitzsimmonsHOST
Pam Ayres poem because my mum loved her.
Claire FitzsimmonsHOST
Oh my God, she loved her.
Claire FitzsimmonsHOST
And it was called These Hands.
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