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Radio Drama Company: Familiar faces from the 1960s

Hannah Khalil

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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's  has been home to many a familiar face (as well as voice) over the years so, with the help of the RDC team, we are revisiting actors who have been part of the company in an occasional blog series.

, and here we are looking at actors who were part of the company, and who you might recognise, in the 1960s:

Marjorie Westbury was best known as Steve Temple in the Paul Temple detective series. Here she is pictured with Sir Donald Wolfitt recording a scene from Othello with Marjorie Westbury as Desdemona and Geoffrey Kenton as Iago, 1957

Nerys Hughes began her acting career with the RDC in the 1960s and went on to star in Z-Cars, The District Nurse and The Liver Birds (pictured, 1971)

RDC regular Miriam Margolyes is a familiar face from film and television from shows like Blackadder, she also played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter films, here she is pictured appearing in At The Eleventh Hour (1967)

Leonard Fenton, best known as Dr Legg in EastEnders also cut his teeth in the Radio Drama Company in the 1960s

Brian Hewlett is a familiar face from television, but his voice is best known as Neil Carter in The Archers - a part he's played for over 40 years (pictured here as Carter in 1980)

Clive Merrison is a familiar face from TV shows like Doctor Who, Lewis and Yes Prime Minister, he was also the most recent Sherlock Holmes on radio, and started out in the RDC in the 1960s (pictured here as Sherlock Holmes in 1998)

Nigel Anthony is a regular from TV, radio and on stage. Most recently he was heard as the judge presiding over Helen Titchener’s trial in The Archers. Here, he's pictured in the first series of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One's Casualty (1986)

Peter Baldwin's best known for playing Derek Wilton in Coronation Street, but he started out in the RDC in the 1960s. Here he is pictured with Frank Thornton and Peter Sallis in Last of The Summer Wine (2009)

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