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
Phil Kennedy Phil Kennedy Phil Kennedy is a British broadcaster who currently presents on BBC Berkshire. Phil's radio career began on Radio Jackie when it was still a pirate radio station, he then moved to Top Shop's instore radio station on London's Oxford Street. Shortly after that he landed a Saturday night show on national BBC Radio 1. Afterwards, he worked at Key 103 in Manchester and Richard Branson's ill-fated ILR sustaining service, The Superstation. During his late-night Superstation show, he hosted features called 'Kennedy's Classic Cuts' and 'PK Nuts'. After The Superstation closed, Phil went to work at BBC GLR, Virgin