The Great Angels Reunion - 50 Years on we reunite 4 of the original cast of the ground breaking nurses series (ahead of the launch of Distinct Radio in 2026)

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Four of the original cast of Angels plus the creator join us to look back at one of the ground breaking series of British television - Angels - which began in 1975.

First we hear from Paula Milne about how she created the show before four of the actors who got together as young women reunite to talk us through exactly what is was like to be thrust into the prime time spotlight five decades ago.

Ashley is joined by:

Erin Gerharty who played Maureen Morahan

Clare Clifford who was Shirley Brent

Julie Dawn Cole who played Jo Longhurst

 and Karen David who was Sita Patel

Angels is just one of several anniversaries we're marking this Christmas. If you scroll through the feed, the last episode of Distinct Nostalgia sees us reunite the cast of 1990s sitcom Game On and the episode before that is an interview with the legendary Derek Griffiths marking 50 years since he composed the music for the iconic children's series BOD.

All this comes ahead of the launch of Distinct Radio in 2026, a new arts station which will be 24/7 history, arts, nostalgia. Keep listening and looking out for updates about that. One of the first shows will be a 90 minute special celebrating Rocky Horror at 50.

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