Access All: Disability News and Mental Health Podcast
Weekly podcast about mental health, wellbeing and disabled people.
Life stories and solutions with a friendly touch 鈥� for listeners around the world.
Episodes to download
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On this special day
Mon 7 Mar 2016
The team discuss those big awareness days like International Wheelchair Day or Autism Day
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Fiction containing disabled characters - do you embrace them, or 'read 'em and weep'?
Fri 26 Feb 2016
We share our thoughts on fictional disabled characters who have caught our imagination.
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Your disability anniversary
Fri 19 Feb 2016
Do you mark the day you became disabled? The team discuss, with guests.
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'Charging the battery': coping with a disability and a mental illness
Fri 12 Feb 2016
Open and frank stories of coping with mental illness and a disability, and strategies.
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... like an LGBT for disability
Fri 5 Feb 2016
Would it be better to use an acronym instead of 'disabled' if it works for others?
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Using chopsticks with your toes
Fri 29 Jan 2016
Mat Fraser and Liz Carr on the best way to 'access' food - archive from Nov 2010
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A colouring book for blind people
Fri 22 Jan 2016
Not an immediately obvious gift for someone who can't see but could it work?
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Disabled mums and sign names
Thu 14 Jan 2016
The extra risks of being a disabled mum, and the sometimes offensiveness of sign names.
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The questions kids ask
Fri 8 Jan 2016
What happens when your child starts to question or be embarrassed by your disability?
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Would you live next door to a 鈥榟andicapped鈥� person?
Fri 18 Dec 2015
The Ouch team plays a game of 1980s dilemmas.
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Ouch 'Christmas dinner' special
Fri 4 Dec 2015
Kids, crackers and is it OK to be given a disability related prezzie?
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"You walk funny" - repeat
Fri 27 Nov 2015
How the Ouch team get along. Plus, internet dating, do you tell people you're disabled?
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That white cane ban story
Fri 20 Nov 2015
Lily-Grace Hooper, 7, was told by her school that she can't use her white cane
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Tangles with trains
Mon 16 Nov 2015
Stepping off a platform into thin air and other disability travel hazards
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Choices and rights: The story of the Disability Discrimination Act
Thu 5 Nov 2015
How the DDA was born, living with a secret disease and the Minister for Disabled People.
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Are disability related Halloween costumes offensive?
Fri 30 Oct 2015
Is it offensive to dress up as a mental patient, Oscar Pistorius or a blind stereotype?
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How do blind people interpret emojis?
Fri 23 Oct 2015
Apple has released 150 brand new emojis. How do blind people read them?
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The disabled man who held a stranger's hand on a bus
Fri 16 Oct 2015
This week a picture of a disabled man hugging a stranger on a bus went viral. We discuss.
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Brothers, sisters and disability
Fri 9 Oct 2015
We talk about the relationships between disabled and non-disabled siblings.
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I was not meant to be able-bodied
Fri 2 Oct 2015
A woman in America has chosen to go blind. We discuss.
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John Lennon mocking disabled people causes a stir
Fri 25 Sep 2015
Footage of John Lennon mocking people with learning disabilities caused a stir online.
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"You don't look disabled"
Thu 17 Sep 2015
The Alec Shelbrooke MP incident and when people assume you're not disabled.
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Inside Ouch 鈥� What is 鈥榥ormal鈥�?
Fri 11 Sep 2015
How should we use the word 鈥榥ormal鈥�? Also, the assisted dying debate.
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'Standing out' as a disabled foreigner in Japan
Fri 4 Sep 2015
Travel, stigma, work and mental illness as a disabled person in Japan.
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Blind mums and counting steps
Fri 28 Aug 2015
Being a blind mum and the difficulties of getting fit if you're disabled.
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Disabled models and security checks
Fri 21 Aug 2015
Are disabled models still a novelty? And the travails of security checks at airports.
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Inside Ouch: Special Olympics and the inspiration question
Fri 14 Aug 2015
A look at the recent Special Olympics. Also, being inspired by other disabled people.
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Breaking Bad's RJ Mitte on showbiz and disability
Tue 4 Aug 2015
The monthly talk show comes from Los Angeles, home of the (disabled) stars.
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Summer loving with a disability
Fri 24 Jul 2015
Inside Ouch gets very British as we discuss how the weather can affect a disability
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