Real-Life Drama - Save Our Show ; the Bbc's Casualty Series has Called Bristol Home for More Than 20 Years. But It Could Now Move to Cardiff. Caroline Norbury, Chief Executive of South West Screen, Explains Why the Programme Is so Important to the City

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › July 27, 2008

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The BBC's Casualty series has called Bristol home for more than 20 years. But it could now move to Cardiff. Caroline Norbury, chief executive of South West Screen, explains why the programme is so important to the city

It hardly needs an introduction to the people of Bristol, but Casualty is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world.

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Real-Life Drama - Save Our Show ; the Bbc's Casualty Series has Called Bristol Home for More Than 20 Years. But It Could Now Move to Cardiff. Caroline Norbury, Chief Executive of South West Screen, Explains Why the Programme Is so Important to the City

First broadcast on BBC1 in 1986, an astonishing 632 episodes of the show have been transmitted over the last 22 years.

Bristol has been Casualty's home since the beginning. Although set in the fictional city of Holby, we all know it as our own c...

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