

Access All: Disability News and Mental Health
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Weekly podcast about mental health, wellbeing and disabled people.
Life stories and solutions with a friendly touch – for listeners around the world.
Life stories and solutions with a friendly touch – for listeners around the world.
Episodes
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Apr 22, 2016 • 10min
Hairy situations
The problems of styling your hair and beard when you’re blind or can’t reach your head.

Apr 15, 2016 • 15min
Would you ditch your disability given the chance?
We try to imagine who we’d be, minus our disabilities.

Apr 8, 2016 • 18min
Would you buy chocolate if its label warned you how much exercise you'd need to burn it off?
Would labels on sweets suggesting exercise targets work for disabled people?

Apr 1, 2016 • 56min
10th anniversary show
Looking back on the first decade of Ouch's podcast, its comedy and its talk

Mar 24, 2016 • 19min
Tales from the train
The team share personal stories about journeys on public transport

Mar 18, 2016 • 16min
Vegetable, vegetable or vegetable?
Ten years after BBC Ouch! first began we delve into the archives to look back at our own version of the parlour game Animal, vegetable or mineral?Our irreverent version - Vegetable, vegetable or vegetable? - involved our presenters trying to work out a caller's disability from their simple 'yes' or 'no' answers.But how does the game look in 2016 - is it still politically correct or should we play with caution?

Mar 11, 2016 • 55min
Sex and money
Why are so-called 'devotees' attracted to physical disability. And the author who believes capitalist economies generate discrimination against disabled people.

Mar 7, 2016 • 22min
On this special day
The team discuss those big awareness days like International Wheelchair Day or Autism Day

Feb 26, 2016 • 23min
Fiction containing disabled characters - do you embrace them, or 'read 'em and weep'?
We share our thoughts on fictional disabled characters who have caught our imagination.

Feb 19, 2016 • 18min
Your disability anniversary
Do you mark the day you became disabled? The team discuss, with guests Sofia Crockatt and her dad Nick.