Career
This was Cookson"s second role on the programme after appearing in Series 13-14 as an occasional character, anaesthetist Julie Day. She returned for one episode at the end of March 2009 on the day that co-stars Janine Mellor and Ivana Bašić left the series and returned once again in March 2015 for one episode. Susan also appeared in the British Broadcasting Corporation Birmingham drama Doctors as Kath Wylie for three episodes in 2009.
On British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, she played Jodie in Spread A Little Happiness, a comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a Yorkshire sandwich Barometer
The series first aired on 1 July 2009 with a repeat opening on 10 February 2011.