__NOTOC__ Judy Bennett (born 22 October 1943) is a British voice actress whose career in radio began with the long-running

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'', in which she played the role of Shula Hebden-Lloyd from 1971 to 2022, reappearing in 2023 after a break. She played Shula's twin brother Kenton and younger sister

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before assuming the role of Shula herself. She has voiced characters in a number of

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, including '' The Perishers'' (1979) and ''

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'' in the late 1990s. She attended Notre Dame Mount Pleasant High School (a girls' catholic grammar school, now St Julie's Catholic High School) in Liverpool. Bennett studied at the

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. In 1976 she married Canadian-English actor Charles Collingwood, who plays ''Archers'' character Brian Aldridge. Actress Jane Collingwood (born 1979) is their daughter.

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