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Ayres on the Air: The Complete Series 1-6
Ayres on the Air: The Complete Series 1-6
Oct 11, 2024 4:28 AM

Author:Pam Ayres,Pam Ayres

Ayres on the Air: The Complete Series 1-6

Writer, poet, and broadcaster Pam Ayres has been making her fans smile for more than 30 years, since her first television appearance on Opportunity Knocks. Now some of her best sketches, verses and songs are brought together in this complete collection of series 1-6 of her Radio 4 show, Ayres on the Air .

Each series consists of 4 episodes, with Pam performing witty and wonderful pieces on subjects as diverse as getting older, shopping and a surfeit of beige, bored chickens and school plays. With each sketch, she delights and entertains in a way that is unique to this very special broadcaster.

Reviews

Incredible Women has a warmth and charm that keeps you listening, as well as lovely writing, so give it a go.

—— Miranda Sawyer , The Observer

This is not just good, it's excellent and shows that quality writing can transform radio comedy into something that's laugh-out-loud funny.

—— Jane Anderson , Radio Times

Jones constructs an oral-history mosaic that will engage even those whose lives
were not changed by the appearance of Ziggy Stardust on Top of the Pops in 1972

—— Guardian, BOOKS OF THE YEAR

The best book on David Bowie you’ll ever need or read.

—— Irish Independent, BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Worthy of the Starman … Of all the volumes to appear since Bowie’s death, this is the most useful: an oral history that brings together the most incisive reminiscences and memorials

—— Evening Standard

Dylan Jones has excavated the cacophony of voices that make up a life and curated a phenomenal portrait of the artist from childhood to the final days. The witnesses who comprise this oral biography animate the pages like characters in a non-fiction novel. Damn nigh peerless.

—— David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas


Studded with shiny nuggets

—— Daily Telegraph

The perfect present for music mums and dads

—— Daily Mirror

Funny, enlightening, gossipy’

—— The Herald

Sparks with admiration and grievances, lust and envy

—— Sunday Telegraph

Engrossing

—— Mail on Sunday

There have been many books about David Bowie ... but Dylan Jones's is among the best

—— Observer

The definitive account of the great man’s life, in the words of those who knew him best … lively, funny and warm – and the story, even the well-known bits, still staggers and amazes. It’s a brilliant story, and it is tremendously well-told here

—— Esquire

A magisterial compilation of startling insights

—— The Oldie

One of the most colourful and intimate portraits yet painted of Bowie

—— Vogue

A vivid catalogue of anecdote, opinion, gossip and memoir

—— Telegraph Magazine

There is literally no better way to spend your time than by reading about the late, great, beautiful and brilliant David Bowie, brought to you by fellow superfan and GQ editor Dylan Jones

—— Tatler

This oral history is by far the best … It’s gossipy, fascinating stuff

—— The Sun

The perfect accompaniment to roaring fires and languid winter evenings, this book
guarantees to see any man through the festive period

—— Independent

A must-have for Bowie fans

—— Daily Mirror

Revelatory and surprising – perfect for the Ziggy completist

—— New York Magazine

Beguiling … the fabulosity of Bowie’s life and times lends itself extraordinarily well
to the oral history form

—— San Francisco Chronicle

An affectionate, sometimes surprising, always fascinating picture of a Star Man in the real world

—— STELLA magazine

Of all the volumes to appear since Bowie’s death last year, this is perhaps the most useful

—— i paper

A treat for enthusiasts […] it bulges with essential and telling Spinal Tappish gossip

—— Guardian

An intimate, detailed and gossip-spangled survey of the life of the great enigma

—— Strong Words magazine

There are sixty-two and a half million books written about David Bowie; this is the one that has been unanimously praised. Indeed, David Bowie: A life might be the only one that you really need.

—— Loud and Quiet Magazine

You can go to any page and read something really interesting. It’s the only book about another artist that I’ve really enjoyed.

—— Chris Difford , Daily Express
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