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Beauty

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Beauty and wellness explored. Pam Ayres' poetry and sketches with Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead. From February 2014.

Poet Pam Ayres presents poems, stories and sketches on the subject of beauty and, that newly-coined term, wellness.

Pam recalls meeting Phyllis Diller and finding out about 'chin brown' - and recalls buying a very unsuitable outfit having admired it on someone else

She also explains how you know when you've put on a little too much weight.

With:
Felicity Montagu
Geoffrey Whitehead as Pam's long-suffering husband 'Gordon'.

Poems include: Too Much of a Fag, Did I Turn Off My Tongs?, Had a Little Work Done, Pilates, Once I Was a Looker and So Was My Spouse, and the legendary I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth.

Sketch writers: James Bugg, Grainne McGuire, Claire Jones, Andy Wolton and Tom Neenan.

Producer: Claire Jones.

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in February 2014.

30 minutes

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Wed 23 Jun 2021 05:00

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