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A Necessary Aptitude

AuthorPam Ayres

NarratorPam Ayres

Duration12h 33m

CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Biography and Autobiography

PublisherRandom House

VersionUnabridged

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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 opportunities she had. At fifteen she started working for the civil service, and for a social life she had the local 'hop'. Pam knew she had to reach out for more, and sought it first in the WRAF. But it was some time before she discovered the unique talent that would make her one of Britain's best-loved comics ...

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