The Archers Ysanne Churchman, who played Grace, sent them a congratulatory card signed "Grace Archer". In 1996, William Smethurst recounted a conversation with Baseley in which he reveals his real motivation for killing off Grace Archer: Churchman was encouraging the other actors to join a trade union. The actor Norman Painting played Phil Archer continuously from the first trial series in 1950 until his death on 29 October 2009. His last "Archers" performance was recorded just two days before his death, and was broadcast on 22 November. He is cited in "Guinness World Records" as the longest-serving actor in a single soap
The Party Party (radio series) characters included "P", "Three", "Lord Knight", and Penny, Dan, and Norman who were being taught radio techniques by "Mr. Mann". They had the "Minister of Honesty", the "Minister of Flannel" and the "Department of Secrets". Bits have strong echoes of the self-referential news sketches of Monty Python. The Party Party (radio series) The Party Party was a British radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987. The six-part series was political comedy set in 1993 written by Moray Hunter and was performed by Robert Glenister, Rory Bremner, Clive Mantle, Hugh Laurie, Morwenna Banks and Robin Driscoll. It was meta,