Accent work - Northern and neutral RP. An extract from Elizabeth Gaskill's 'North and South'. Margaret Hale struggles to make conversation with Fanny Thornton.

Children's and Male voices. Mr Darling and Michael fight over taking medicine, whilst Wendy tries to be helpful. I wanted to have a go and doing children's and male voices, and had a lot of fun with JM Barrie's lovely writing.

Adult voices, narration, brief West-Country accent. I wanted to have a go at the challenge of many adult voices with narration, and this favourite (slightly abridged) section from 'Emma' was great fun. It simply sparkles with Austen's wit, comic characters and empathy. Also, having grown up near Boxhill, it's always meant a lot to me - every time I walk there I where exactly Emma was supposed to have had her picnic.

The Jailor’s Daughter from ‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’, Act 3, Scene 4, by Shakespeare and Fletcher. Tellingly the Jailor’s Daughter never shares a scene with her beloved Palomon, yet by aiding his escape from prison, at the expense of her own father’s arrest, she is instrumental to the plot and her intermittent monologues are the real gems of the play. Having fled the jail, her home, she fails to meet up with Palomon, who unbeknownst to her, is pursuing his real love interest – she believes him killed and starts to go mad from grief and exposure. This monologue is at the height of her madness (she’s in open country nowhere near the sea), but I think the desperate atmosphere and her dramatic visions make it a great piece for radio.

Multiple children's voices. Accents. I couldn't resist doing another Peter Pan clip, it's such great writing and was a lot of fun finding all the voices and trying to keep on top of them.