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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.
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Apr 15, 2016 • 15min

Would you ditch your disability given the chance?

We try to imagine who we’d be, minus our disabilities.
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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?
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Apr 1, 2016 • 56min

10th anniversary show

Looking back on the first decade of Ouch's podcast, its comedy and its talk
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Mar 24, 2016 • 19min

Tales from the train

The team share personal stories about journeys on public transport
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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?
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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.
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Mar 7, 2016 • 22min

On this special day

The team discuss those big awareness days like International Wheelchair Day or Autism Day
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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.
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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.

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