Such is this acting malarkey that I got my most recent job via the barman at the theatre where I am currently working, who also happens to be a documentry maker and needed an RP female voice for his most recent pitch, a documentry on Byron. As the other actors happen to be Welsh, Mancunian and Italian, and I'm on friendliest terms with the said barman I got the job hands down.

24 hours later I'm in front of a mic with a panorama of Venice steching in front of me out of the window. It's lovely to feel all my training just click into place again and there's a great surety about the fact that what I felt sounded good, the client liked as well. When he said "That was a bit flat, can you do it with more intonation and expression?" I could answer "Actually, that's what I thought so I rerecorded it straight after. This any better?"

I love voice over work and the spoken word; it came very naturally at drama school. On my night off from performing, I'm home having a date with Radio 4 on i-player, while I'm cooking or doing the laundry. Last week I listened to 'Falco', with the sublime Anton Lessor, this week it's reruns of the brilliant 'Cabin Pressure' and a 'Charles Paris Mystery' with Bill Nighy (who's Sam Gamgee in the 1981 BBC's LOTR is one of my favourite Radio performances, alongside Ian Holm's as Frodo in the same production) It's such fun to taste the words and deliver them naturally, yet dynamically, to retain audience attention without body language alongside. I'd love to get more radio and voiceover work, that preferably pays better then "free drinks for a week" and a copy of it on CD! Still it was such fun to do 'Byron', and great for me to have some practice working for a familiar face, building up my confidence in the medium.