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AuthorPam Ayres
NarratorPam Ayres
Duration2h 5m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Poetry
PublisherBBC
VersionUnabridged
Pam Ayres reads over 50 of her best-known and loved poems, including 'I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth', 'I'm a Starling, Me Darling' and 'Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter'.
Author: Fiona Sampson
Author Fiona Sampson
Narrator Fiona Sampson
Duration 1h 9m
Rough Music is the old English name for a custom of public scapegoating. This collection, read here by the author, is full of disturbing musical echoes, in which brilliant renewals of carol, charm, folksong and ballad explore themes of violence, loss and belonging. Fiona Sampson's characteristic lyric intensity deftly fuses metaphysics and politics...
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres Et Al
Duration 2h 48m
Pam and Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a rural garden centre. While Pam still feels young and is determined to avoid the slippery slope into middle-age, Gordon seems keen to dive in - slippers first. Pam's ally at the garden centre is teenager Carol, a girl more than happy to speak her mind. If only, Gordon complains, there was something...
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
Author Pam Ayres
Narrator The Author
Duration 1h 55m
Writer, poet, entertainer and broadcaster, Pam Ayres has been delighting the nation with her mix of comic poetry, prose and droll observations on life for more than twenty years. This live recording of Pam's overwhelmingly popular stage show is the entertainer at her best. Pam Ayres' stage show has been a sell-out success throughout the world. With...
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres
Duration 2h 48m
More anecdotes, poems and sketches from one of the nation's most popular poets. Just over thirty years ago, a little-known poet named Pam Ayres made her debuton the ITV talent show Opportunity Knocks. Since then, she has taken the nationby storm, entertaining millions of people with her books, stage shows and radio and television appearances. Her f...
View BookAuthor: Ian Sansom
Author Ian Sansom
Narrator Ian Sansom
Duration 9h 44m
This a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This a book about a poet - W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scap...
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres
Duration 1h 56m
This recording is taken from four of writer, poet and broadcaster Pam Ayres''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. . Here, Pam can be heard delighting her public on such topics as holidays, families, ageing and country living. With sketches a...
View BookOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Author: T. S. Eliot
Author T. S. Eliot
Narrator Miranda Richardson
Duration 48m
The naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there's the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey - All of them s...
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres
Duration 12h 33m
Pam Ayres was the sixth child in a hard-up family who lived in a council house, her parents' generation were harrowed by the war. Yet they lived by the green in the village of Stanford in the Vale, where everything you needed was within walking distance and the sound of motorcars was rarely heard. Then reaching her teens, Pam realised how few oppor...
View BookAuthor: Tyler Knott Gregson
Author Tyler Knott Gregson
Narrator The Author
Duration 56m
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Chasers Of The Light, written and read by Tyler Knott Gregson. I would love to say that you make me weak at the knees, but to be quite upfront and completely truthful, you make my body forget it has knees at all. One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photogra...
View BookAuthor: Various
Author Various
Narrator Bart Wolffe
Duration 44m
A collection of classic literature that feature erotic dreams including The Eve of St. Agnes, Erotica Romana, and A Last Confession.
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