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• Radio catch-up: Guy Garveys Finest Hour, Purcell from Westminster Abbey, The Essay and The Archers

  
  Television & radio: TV and radio blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 123
  Listen again to a mixture of music and chat on 6Music, a classical treat, a lecture on Mary Woolstonecraft and the swansong of Archers stalwart Norman Painting Guy Garveys Finest Hour (Sunday, 6Music) is always a pleasure; a fine combination of good music and companionable chat. "Debonair and distinctive on 6Music" ...
  6 days ago

• well, you asked

  
  needled — Authority: 454
  By request, another treat from The Archers pattern book. Here is the fragrant Caroline Bone / Pemberton / Sterling resplendent in a knitted suit of lemon hue. In this frothy confection, she may well run the risk of being mistaken for one of Ian’s more outlandish Grey Gables deserts. . . and yes – [...]
  1 week ago

• Casual Reader: Vicar of Dibley, Prisoner of Birth, The Archers

  
  smarterthanyouraverage.com — Authority: 127
  The Great Big Companion to Dibley Who doesn’t love The Vicar of Dibley? The version I read didn’t have the bright cheerful dust jacket on, it was just a red hardback book. It looks intimidating, but once you open the cover, there is simply joy inside. There are selected scripts, although after doing some ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ambridge

  
  needled — Authority: 454
  Warning! this post may seem both tedious and incomprehensible to anyone who is not an Archers fan . . . I arrived home from work yesterday to find that a thrilling package had turned up in the post. On opening the envelope, the mere words “Ambridge DK and chunky,” were enough to send me into [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Nancy Banks-Smith on The Archers

  
  Television & radio: TV and radio blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 137
  Matt and Lilian are not Bonnie and Clyde, but rackety pensioners on the run. God bless their creaky knees Costa Rica, which pretty much dozed off when Columbus left, awoke to find itself notorious when Matt and Lilian arrived one jump ahead of justice. "Hes done a runner, hasnt he?" said Lilians brother-in-law with ...
  3 weeks ago

• Trylon Microcinema is Better Than Your Life

  
  Switchblade Comb — Authority: 510
  Yes, I’m still drunk and posting movie news, but Minneapolis’ amazing Trylon Microcinema just announced their new schedule and I’m doing my damndest to type it straight . . . and I must point out, two of the In Deppth films are two of my ten favorite films of all-time, and the Brit Noir series is absolute ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Archers

  
  The Contrarian — Authority: 134
  During a particularly dark period of my life a couple years ago, I started listening to internet radio. As is characteristic of dark times, I was working temp jobs — and actually became employee of the month one particularly bleak January, complete with an on-site visit from the agency involving balloons and a gift ...
  3 weeks ago

• Soapstar Superstars – September/October

  
  lowculture.co.uk — Authority: 123
  A pologies for missing out last month, but I’ve had the kind of poor health that would make me a shoo-in for next year’s X Factor . In a couple of months that have had us blubbing at many soap deaths and despairing at many unwanted returning characters, who have our forum users been loving and loathing? ...
  4 weeks ago

• BBC Radio 4 To Slowly Fade out Phil Archer from Radio Soap after Death of Norman Painting

  
  Moo News Moo News - Entertainment, Sports, Showbiz, Celebrities & TV — Authority: 494
  Popular BBC Radio 4 soap, The Archers, announced they will not be writing off Phil Archer until after the New Year. The announcement came shortly after the death of actor, Norman Painting, who played the popular radio soap character.  Scriptwriters and producers for the radio hit have said that they will talk next ...
  4 weeks ago

• Phil Archer to enjoy one last Ambridge Christmas

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  The Archers will not kill off Phil Archer until the New Year despite the death of Norman Painting allowing listeners to imagine the character enjoying one last Christmas at Brookfield Farm.
  4 weeks ago

• Friday Procrastination: UK Link Love

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 745
  Kirsty McHugh By the time that you read this, fair readers, I will be on my way home to Glasgow for the weekend to see my mum. I’m very excited. However, for those of you stuck at your desks, allow me to entertain you with some of my favourite recent blog posts and articles. Sad news for the BBC Radio 4 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Norman Paintings Phil Archer

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  The Archers Norman Painting has died. Here is a timeline of his muchloved character Phil Archer.
  5 weeks ago

• Archers patriarch Norman Painting dies

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Actor who played Phil Archer still working in September, despite heart condition which compounded fight against bladder cancer Obituary: Norman Painting Norman Painting, the mainstay of the rural radio soap opera The Archers for 60 years, has died aged 85. First hired by BBC radio in 1950 for a trial of what was ...
  5 weeks ago

• Archers patriarch Norman Painting dies at 85

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Voice of Phil Archer, patriarch of the long-running radio soap The Archers To millions of listeners of the long-running Radio 4 series The Archers, the voice of Phil Archer represented quiet, unemotional sanity in the increasingly turbulent drama of everyday country folk living in the Borsetshire village of ...
  5 weeks ago

• Norman Painting

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Actor and academic who played Phil Archer from the first episode of the longrunning radio series on New Years Day 1951
  5 weeks ago

• Voice of Phil Archer dies aged 85

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The longest-serving star of BBC Radio 4s The Archers – or any single soap opera – dies after 60 years in role Norman Painting, who played Phil Archer on long-running Radio 4 drama The Archers for nearly 60 years, has died at the age of 85, the BBC said today. Painting had played the character since the show was ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Ministry of Defence needs to shout more loudly about British Forces Broadcasting Service

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 596
  “… and the weather forecast. Isolated showers over the Hindu Kush tonight, with a warning of snowstorms in the mountains towards to Pakistan border”. I’ve just heard these faintly exotic meteorological details on my radio at home in London. They come courtesy of BFBS Afghanistan, which went live from studios ...
  5 weeks ago

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