The voice of a thousand (actually many more) movie trailers, the instantly recognisable Redd Pepper has been using his uniquely deep, authoritative voice since 1995 to get you to watch any number of cinematic blockbusters. He's also been in video games, TV shows and has appeared in a couple of films himself. Most notably Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, in which he played all manner of demons and ghouls. He's currently the voice of the official opening and pre-match hype for #fifaclubworldcup2025. So sit back and listen to his life story, how he was discovered when he was a London Underground train driver, and he even did the end credits for me in a way I could only have dreamt of a few weeks ago!

In this episode I get to have a chat with the man behind the mask of Davros, leader of the Daleks in Dr Who since 1984, and since 1974 the voice of Mike Tucker in The Archers on Radio 4. He talks about his long and, by his own admission, incredibly fortuitous career which goes back to his days in a theatre group touring schools through the glory days of Dr Who and beyond. A modest and charming actor, who has made his name playing possibly the most evil character in television Sci-Fi, and also a myriad of characters in radio drama. Voice acting has always been his favourite aspect of his work, so he was only too happy to talk to me about it.

In this edition I have a fantastic and entertaining chat with the multi talented Emma Clarke, whose voice graces a large portion of the London Underground Network, and who currently hosts Radio 3's Saturday Morning Breakfast show. She has been a voice artist for thirty years, but is also a musician and composer, and is studying for her PhD. Once I'd stopped feeling intimidated, we talked about her career and the future of voice work.

Simon Greenall is an hugely versatile comic actor and voice artist. Since the early '90s he's been adding his talents to commercials, animation, video games and radio comedy and drama. His best known voices are Aleksandr Orlov and Sergei in the Compare the Market commercials, but he is also Captain Barnacles in the Octonauts, Micheal in I'm Alan Partridge and Sid James in The Missing Hancocks. His wide range of accents and voices, and his innate talent for comedy have made him one of the country's leading voice talents. Our highly entertaining chat covered his comedy writing career, stand-up, television, animation and a lot else besides.

Tim Bentinck (MBE) studied Modern Languages at Harrow, History of Art at the University of East Anglia, and trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has been a professional actor since 1978. He won the Carleton Hobbs Radio Award in 1978 and joined the BBC Radio Repertory Company, which led to being cast as David Archer in The Archers in 1982. He has played leading roles in film, television, theatre and radio, is a voiceover and dubbing specialist, with a huge range of vocal styles and accents. He is also a musician, travel journalist, inventor, computer programmer, website designer, house renovator and author. His autobiography Being David Archer - And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living was published in 2017. Video games: Best known as Victor Saltzpyre in Vermintide, and James Bond in The World is Not Enough. Dark Souls III, Total War: Warhammer.

Kate Harbour's voice credits are far too numerous to list, but she is best known as Wendy in Bob the Builder. She's been in Shaun the Sheep, Chicken Run and many other films, TV series, and audio dramas. (I appeared with her in The Secret Show and The Octonauts). She is a musical theatre actress as well as a versatile and very funny voice actor. She also hosts animation voice acting workshops. We had a very entertaining and wide ranging chat about the business of voice acting and the future of the industry.

Actor and voice artist Paul Panting, a fellow Octonaut (he's Peso) has been in the business for over 30 years. Theatre and television, audiobooks, animation - He has been providing voices for Chuggington since the first season in 2008. Other credits include Muck in the UK dub of "Bob the Builder" (2015 reboot). I've known him since we both started out. We spoke about his career, the voice industry and the future.

Rupert Degas has been a professional voice actor for over 30 years. He is also a theatre and television actor. Currently living in Australia, his animation voice credits include a 7 year stint in Bob the Builder, Chop Socky Chooks, Robotboy, Thomas and Friends, Lucky Fred, Groove High, The Amazing world of Gumball and many more. He has been hundreds of video games, narrates audiobooks, does commercials, basically he can do pretty much anything that's thrown at him. A highly versatile and entertaining actor, our conversation covered everything from impressions to global politics.