The Archers trial. Unlike television soaps, "The Archers" actors are not held on retainers and work on the series usually for a few days a month. By the nature of the storylines concentrating on particular groups of characters, in any one week out of a cast of about 60, the episodes include approximately 2030 speaking-characters. Most of the cast do acting work on other projects and can disappear for long periods if they are working on commitments such as films or television series. Tamsin Greig plays Debbie Aldridge and has appeared on many television series such as "Green Wing", "Love Soup", "Black
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,