Access All: Disability News and Mental Health

Prime minister May has had type one diabetes since 2013 and, as such, a more complicated lifestyle in order to maintain her good health. A full transcript is available in the related links section.This week we meet Leonie Watson, an accessibility engineer who has had the same type of diabetes since she was a small child. She discusses how she can eat the occasional pudding by adjusting her insulin dosage, how to have the occasional drink plus explains the technology she uses to measure the sugar in her blood. You'll learn more than you expected in a candid and enlightening interview.With Damon Rose and Emma Tracey.If you want to get in touch, email ouch@bbc.co.uk, tweet @bbcouch or find us on Facebook. Please rate and review this programme on whichever service you get your podcasts from - it helps other people, who might also enjoy the programme, to find it.

Some of the creatures in the new mobile online gaming phenomenon Pokemon Go are not accessible if you're mobility impaired. But on the flip side of accessibility, some say the game is great for your mental health because it gets you outdoors while you attempt to capture the Pokemon in your local area. (go to the Related Links section of this page to find a transcript)Visually impaired gamer Jemma Brown joins the Ouch team to tell us how she plays the game. The programme features Ouch regulars Damon Rose, Kathleen Hawkins and Emma Tracey.Tell us about your gaming experiences by emailing ouch@bbc.co.uk, find us on Facebook or tweet @bbcouch If you like this podcast, please rate and review it on your podcast delivery service so that others can find it.

Blind, visually impaired and other disabled people could benefit hugely from the new breed of automated cars that we hear such a lot about. But will this group of people be automatically permitted to drive them when the cars are legally allowed on the roads? (a transcript of this programme can be found in the Related Links section on this page) We discovered in the last week that the first death has happened which involves driverless technology, a man using autopilot mode on a Tesla car. Does this change the desire of some blind and disabled people to want to travel in a computer controled car and gain that much-needed independence? Might the tragic incident put lawmakers off? These and other questions are discussed in this edition of Inside Ouch featuring AbilityNet's Robin Christopherson and Hugh Huddy who considers policy at a big charity which supports visually impaired people. With Damon Rose and Emma Tracey. email Ouch@bbc.co.uk tweet @bbcouch or find us on Facebook if you want to tell us about your thoughts on the accessibility of driverless cars.

This programme contains discussions about mental health, halucinations and suicide. If you're not in the right mood to hear it, skip the episode and we'll be back next week with another show. Discussions range from: questionable special school classes on dating etiquette, the lack of disabled emojis, and seeing floating cats which may or may not be real. (a transcript of this programme can be found in the Related Links section on this page) With guests Laurence Clark (comedian with cerebral palsy), Harriet Dyer (a comic who has bipolar and who runs her own club night for comedians with mental health difficulties), and wheelchair usin' Jack Binstead from BBC sitcom Bad Education. Email ouch@bbc.co.uk, tweet @bbcouch or find us on Facebook to be part of the conversation.. Or just tell us what you think of the show. This hour-long show is presented by Kate Monaghan and Simon Minty. The producer was Damon Rose.If any discussions in this programme cause you distress, please reach out to your friends, family or support network. Or you can call Samaritans on 116 123, any time of the day or night for free from mobile or landline phones. It does not show up on any bills. Alternatively you can email jo@samaritans.org

Tiffany Joiner describes her legs as “80 per cent paralysed” due to a balcony fall six years ago. It took a long time for the former yoga teacher to get "back on the mat" but now her Instagram photos and videos have earned the UK-based American a loyal following by disabled "yogis". Her handle is @yogaplegic. (for a transcript, look in the Related Links section on this page) Tiffany joins Kathleen, Damon and Emma to chat about yoga and life in general. Find out why she duct tapes her feet together before practicing, how a year of solo travel around Latin America helped her recovery and what advice she'd give to other disabled people keen to try yoga or another physical activity.

Pictures of Oscar Pistorius were beamed around the globe this week as he attempted to show how vulnerable he could be in prison as a double below knee amputee. The convicted murderer was overcome with emotion as he showed judges the alternative side of his superhuman persona. On this week's programme, the Ouch team discuss dignity, vulnerability and reflect on personal matters of accessibility and pride. Email ouch@bbc.co.uk or tweet @bbcouch if you want to be part of the conversation. A transcript of this episode is now available.

Warning: this programme contains discussion of a sexual nature. The team are joined by disabled writer and performer Penny Pepper. (see Related Links, below, for a transcript) This week she wrote an article in The Guardian about how she's sick of disabled people being portrayed as asexual in film and TV. Cue a long and fascinating discussion about her first experiences of love and physical intimacy. As Penny is a wheelchair user and has arthritis, she has to do things quite differently.

Interview guests, music, and Ouch's famous Vegetable Vegetable or Vegetable parlour game returns on the hour-long show for June. (See 'Related links' for a transcript)One-handed concert pianist Nicholas McCarthy got to #7 in the classical music charts. Here, he reveals what he does with his less-able or “little arm” - the one he doesn't make music with. Hear him play to celebrate BBC Music Day. And be sure to click below for a video of blind Ouch producer Emma trying to find Nicholas’s speedy left hand as he tickles the ivories.Ruth Madeley was nominated for a BAFTA for her part in BBC Three's Don’t Take My Baby, a drama exploring the scrutiny some disabled people experience from social services on becoming parents. The drama is back on BBC iPlayer until August, and Ruth joins us from Manchester to chat about her break-out role. She was born disabled, but that’s not what she always tells inquisitive strangers. Hear the elaborate tale she told Ouch when she came in on work experience 10 years ago when she was a teenager. It’s Volunteers Week and Maria, a young woman with learning difficulties, explains how her Gig Buddy Hannah helps her to go clubbing safely and "stay up late ". Vegetable, Vegetable or Vegetable is back, the tongue-in-cheek game where presenters and guests go against the clock to guess what’s “wrong” with a disabled contestant on the phone. And we end with music from New York rap duo 4 Wheel City who became wheelchair users when they were shot in separate incidents. Hear their anti-gun violence anthem Welcome to Reality.

Wheelchair user Mik Scarlet explains why the film of the Jojo Moyes book has caused a stir.

George Fielding has a cappuccino coloured chair which suits his 'young but old' image