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MICHAEL WARDLE

Michael is known for his role as Parkin the farmer in Withnail and I, and Gordon (Lynn's boyfriend) in I'm Alan Partridge. He has had four different roles in Heartbeat, four different roles in Coronation Street as well as roles in Last of the Summer Wine, Emmerdale, Fat Friends, Shipman, Dinner of Herbs, When The Boat Comes In, Z Cars, and many more. Plus a long theatre cv, including West End work and rep in Eastbourne, Harrogate and Windsor.

Michael joined us in 2008 for our first stage tour when we started out as theatre company Planet Rabbit Productions. He went on to tour with us six times and made two feature films with us at Xanadu Films.

ROBERTA KERR

Roberta maybe best remembered for playing Wendy Crozier in Coronation Street. She also appeared in Emmerdale as Jan Glover for 4 years, as well as roles in Brookside, Doctors, Hollyoaks, Downton Abbey, The Archers and more. Her extensive theatre credits include Two, The Borrowers, Quartet, Blithe Spirit, Hard Times, A Doll's House, A Cream Cracker Under The Settee, The Lady Killers, and the National Theatre UK & Ireland tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
Roberta starred in our 2010 stage tour of Elsie & Norm's Macbeth at Planet Rabbit Productions and was on the 2011 judging panel of our Ovation Awards for new writing.

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DAVID LONSDALE

David is known for his many years playing David Stockwell in Heartbeat - clocking up 259 episodes. Other tv work includes Coronation Street (as Peter Barlow in 1986 and Eddie Soames in 2012), Vera, The Thief His Wife and the Canoe The Reckoning, Emmerdale, Casualty, Hollyoaks, The Bay, Doctors, and the first Downton Abbey film. David has appeared on stage in panto, as well as plays including Titfield Thunderbolt, You're Only Young Twice, September in the Rain and many more. David wrote and starred in the UK touring stage production of Heartbeat. 

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CHRISTINE COX

Christine has worked extensively on stage at Hull Truck, York Theatre Royal, Bolton Octagon, Salisbury Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Northampton Royal Theatre, New Victoria Newcastle under Lyme, Oldham Coliseum, and with Northern Broadsides and the John Godber Company. On tv Christine has had numerous roles in Coronation Street and Emmerdale (including 3 years as the recurring role Glynis Hardy), plus roles in Waterloo Road, Shameless, Doctors, Hollyoaks, Dalziel & Pascoe, and many more. Christine has a long list of radio play credits for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3.

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RICHARD HOLLICK

Richard performed in Dracula at Whitby Abbey for eight years for English Heritage. He's also worked with Northern Broadsides and Hull Truck, has had tv roles in Coronation Street, Emmerdale, New Voices and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, plus he performed in a Radio 4 production of Lost Empires alongside Tom Baker and Brigit Forsyth. He has also appeared in tv commercials.

Richard was a regular actor with our touring theatre company Planet Rabbit Productions, joining us on nine of our theatre productions. He also made two feature films with us at Xanadu Films. 

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TRACY GABBITAS

Tracy has a long list of independent film credits, and has worked with many independent theatre companies - particularly in the north west. Tracy is very experienced in site specific work - many at Tatton Park in Cheshire.

In 2014 she took the role of Evelyn in Victoria Wood's tv film That Day We Sang, opposite Imelda Staunton.

Tracy first joined our theatre company Planet Rabbit Productions in 2011 on Small Portions at the Buxton Festival Fringe, performing in both Nightwatch and Fancy Pants - roles which she has reprised on this podcast. She also toured with our 2016 production of Arnold Ridley's Easy Money.

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