Phil Archer when the show began airing nationally on 1 January 1951. During his time with "The Archers", Painting wrote a best-selling book entitled "Forever Ambridge" and wrote over a thousand scripts for the show between 1966 and 1982. Painting was later inducted into the Guinness World Records for being the longest-serving actor, without a break, in a single soap opera. In later years, Painting's appearances on the show became limited due to his ill health. On 29 October 2009, two days after he had gone to the recording studio, Painting died. BBC Radio 4 controller, Mark Damazer, said "Norman Painting was
Andy Archer (radio presenter) to commercial radio, presenting a mid-morning programme for North Norfolk Radio. Archer is credited with having pioneered the use of the word "anorak" as a lexical description for an obsessive fan, using the term for fans of offshore radio in the early 1970s, who chartered boats to come out to sea to visit the radio ships. Andy Archer (radio presenter) Andy Archer (born Anthony Andrew Dawson) is an English radio presenter, best known for his work on pirate radio stations in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s. He later worked for Independent Local Radio and BBC Local Radio.