First viewed : Autumn 1977
Two years after appearing on Opportunity Knocks one of the decade's most unlikely stars got her own TV show.
Pam Ayres started her career in the WRAF but started writing poetry and reading it out on local radio in the early seventies. After appearing on Opportunity Knocks she was regularly on TV reading her innuendo-laden verse delivered in a possibly exaggerated rustic accent through the side of her mouth Jonathan King style. The effect was heightened by her mumsy church mouse appearance. I remember enjoying the show which featured other comedians as guests but it only lasted for one thirteen week series.
After that I completely lost sight of her and prior to ten minutes ago thought she might have been dead. I don't read poetry so it's no great surprise that she's continued writing but all her radio shows and appearances on Countdown and QI have somehow escaped me.
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