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 Adventures of Superman (BBC Radio series) The Adventures of Superman (BBC Radio series) The Adventures of Superman was a six-part radio drama commissioned by BBC Radio 4 and broadcast in 1988. In the late eighties Superman was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in the form of a one off docudrama called "Superman On Trial". Due to the huge success of this and its sequel "", the BBC commissioned a six-part radio drama "The Adventures of Superman" it would run for two series and have both a cassette and CD release. First broadcast: 1988 Written to celebrate Superman's 50th birthday. Accused of crimes against humanity, the last