Bob Arnold

{{Short description|English voice actor (1910–1998)}} {{For|those of a similar name|Robert Arnold (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''George Richard Arnold''' (27 December 1910 – 27 August 1998), better known as '''Bob Arnold''', was an English voice actor who played the part of Tom Forrest in the long running BBC radio series The Archers from 1951 to 1997.<ref>Smethurst, W. ''The Archers; the true story: the history of radio's most famous programme''. London: Michael O'Mara, 1996 {{ISBN|1-85833-620-1}}</ref> Arnold was born in Asthall, Oxfordshire on 27 December 1910.<ref name="indep">{{cite news |last1=Fergusson |first1=James |title=Obituary: Bob Arnold |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-bob-arnold-1174693.html |access-date=25 August 2024 |work=The Independent |date=29 August 1998}}</ref> He died from liver failure at his daughter's home in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 27 August 1998, at the age of 87.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Archers' Tom Forrest dies |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/159914.stm |access-date=25 August 2024 |publisher=BBC News |date=27 August 1998}}</ref><ref name="indep"/>

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