Trainers

Joan Walker is a multi-talented actress, with extensive experience in Radio Drama, TV and Stage work. Joan has an excellent ear for accents and vocal characterisation. She has also recorded numerous talking books, language courses, exhibition guides and narrations and, of course, radio commercials. Her teaching abilities are regularly called upon by the Department for Education & Skills.

Stephen Critchlow has performed in over 200 radio dramas, during three spells with the BBC Radio Drama Company. He has worked in all areas of the medium - Book at Bedtime, readings, light entertainment, schools radio, Woman's Hour, classic serials and Shakespeare - and he's been involved in producer training, teaching microphone technique and script work to prospective radio directors. You name it, he's done it! Critch has worked with such luminaries, as Sir Dirk Bogarde, Rod Steiger, Sir Harold Pinter and Joan Littlewood. In 2004 he starred as Kenneth Horne in the hit show Round the Horne Revisited.

Julie Berry trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, ending with a postgraduate year in Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama. She went on to teach Speech & Voice and Shakespeare in drama schools and directed several Shakespeare productions. Since then, she has concentrated on performing and, specifically, on voice work. Her regular radio and television voiceovers have included campaigns for DHL, Garnier, Wella, Sainsburys, Flora, British Airways, Financial Times, Daily & Sunday Mirror and Pretty Polly Legacy, as well as many programmes for the BBC's Open University. She has voiced and presented countless corporate videos and was the original voice model for BT's Directory Enquiries automatic voice response - "The number you require…". Julie spent a very happy year with the BBC's Radio Drama Company, playing everything from Debussy's wife in the award-winning Black Cat and the Moon to the voice of the BBC in a play about William Walton. Thanks to modern ISDN technology, Julie's voice can be heard all around the world - she regularly voices trailers for CNN International and has clients all over the US as well as Bahrain and Dubai.

David Thorpe has been heard in numerous radio plays, in a wide range of characters, stretching from Oswald Moseley to a pair of sparrows! He played Dr Sean Graham in the BBC World Service soap "Westway", has twice been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company and worked for 5 years as a presenter for BBC English. David works extensively in many areas of Audio and has recorded dozens of talking books. He has taught Acting for the Radio in drama schools and runs regular Radio/Audio workshops.