Norman Painting His ashes were scattered at Painting's Plantation in Leamington Spa, with a memorial service at St Martin-in-the-Fields in May 2010. He left his recordings, scripts, books, papers and letters to Birmingham University Special Collections. Norman Painting Norman George Painting (23 April 1924 – 29 October 2009) was an English actor, broadcaster and writer. He played Phil Archer in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera "The Archers" from the pilot episodes aired on the BBC Midlands Home Service in summer 1950, after the series went national on the Light Programme on 1 January 1951, until his death in 2009, when he
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,