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Actress Adjoa Andoh's stage and screen credits are many and varied, including Doctor Who, MI High and Line of Duty. She joined the Radio Drama Comapny in the 1990s, here she is as Colette with Ian Beasdale as Josh in Casualty in 2001.

Actor Andrew Wincott started out in the RDC in the 1990s and went on to star as Adam Macy in Radio 4's The Archers. Here he is pictured with Stephen Kennedy (left) as his partner Ian Craig in 2003 when the characters tied the knot in the show.

Although billed as an English teacher in his Wikipedia entry, David Collings is an established screen actor with three separate Doctor Who appearances in his repertoire. He joined the RDC in the 1990s and is pictured here as Mawdryn in Doctor Who Mawdryn Undead 1983.

An actress whose face and voice are instantly recognisable, Emma Fielding was the Carleton Hobbs Award winner in 1991 – and went on to join the RDC. She has starred in Father Brown, Cranford (pictured from 2007) and many radio dramas including a recent Macbeth playing Lady Macbeth to Neil Dudgeon's eponymous antihero.

Janet Maw joined the RDC in the 1990s too, her many TV credits include The Barchester Chronicles, The Bretts and Shine on Harvey Moon. Here she is as the Queen in Richard II from 1978.

Look hard and you'll see Nina Wadia in Goodness Gracious Me in 1997 - the comedienne turned actress has gone on to do great things in the drama world too with turns in Holby City and EastEnders as well as a stint in the RDC in the 1990s.

Mark Bonnar you may remember from Shetland, Psychoville, Twenty Twelve or Casualty - or from recent ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One drama Apple Tree Yard - he's another stage and screen stalwart who was in the RDC in the 1990s after winning the Carleton Hobbs in 1996.

Tracey Ann Oberman is another radio vet, starting out in the RDC at the same time. You'll know her face from a regular role in EastEnders - here she is in Father Brown (pictured in 2013).

Priyanga Burford, another RDC alumnus from the 1990s, has appeared in The Thick of It, Silent Witness and Casualty. She is pictured as DI Danton with Tracy Wiles as Renwick for the Radio 4 drama Phonophone (2015). Both Priyanga and Tracy are Carleton Hobbs winners in 1998 and 1995 respectively.

This RDC alumnus - Timothy Carlton - is pictured in Bergerac as Peter Marshall with Kate Coleridge as Jane Marshall from 1983. Other noteworthy performances include as Gerard Mace in The Lotus Eaters, Hugh Buckingham in Next of Kin and as Benedict Cumberbatch's dad in Sherlock (and in real life too).

Maxine Audley made her stage debut in 1940 at London's Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. Her first screen performance followed in 1948's TV adaptation of Anna Karenina. She went on to take roles in films like The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. She joined the RDC later in life at the start of the 1990s. Here she is as Miss Havisham in Great Expectations from 1967.

Julian Rhind-Tutt (pictured here in The Wipers Times from 2003) is currently starring in SS-GB on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One. His other credits include Banished, The Hour, Merlin and Ab Fab. He joined the RDC for a time in the 1990s after being named Carleton Hobbs winner in 1992, and has featured in dozens of radio dramas since.