

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.
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Mar 31, 2015 • 55min
talk show: Driving, prison, being a man
Meet the man who was in prison three years ago and now hopes to reach the Rio Paralympics. Will blind and severely disabled people ever be able to travel independently in driverless cars? Plus the male student who says having cerebral palsy led to anorexia. With Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan.

Mar 24, 2015 • 13min
#GiveBenAJob
After a Twitter campaign secured a man with Down’s syndrome his first paid job, the Ouch team chats about the unique barriers faced by disabled people entering the world of work.

Mar 18, 2015 • 13min
Inside Ouch: Disability, douze points
There are at least three disabled entries in this year’s Eurovision song contest. Damon, Emma and Kathleen explain who they are and speculate whether one of them might win.

Mar 11, 2015 • 11min
Inside Ouch: IS release video featuring two deaf fighters
Deaf blogger Charlie Swinbourne on how the community has reacted to an Islamic State sign language video, plus disability chat from the Ouch team.

Mar 4, 2015 • 54min
Talk Show: Stump art, disabled models, black canes
On this month's show: The blind man who swapped his white cane for a marching band. The amputee who dresses her stump up as celebrities and gets her internet followers to guess who it is. And why were there no disabled models at London Fashion Week?
With Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan.

Feb 27, 2015 • 14min
Inside Ouch: Who can use accessible loos?
They’re in the news this week but what are disabled people’s biggest toilet-related gripes? And should others be cut some slack for nipping in when the facility is free? With Damon, Emma and Kathleen, otherwise known as the Ouch team.

Feb 5, 2015 • 54min
Oscars, acting and singing on the tube
Is it really like "blacking up" if a non-disabled actor plays a disabled role? Plus the monthly quiz, music and the man with mental health difficulties filmed singing on the tube who became a viral hit on YouTube.

Jan 9, 2015 • 54min
Blind fashion, role models and jobs
This month: blind people and fashion, guerrilla ways to get a job and disabled role models with guests academic Tom Shakespeare, disability recruitment advisor Tracey Abbott and blogger Emily Davison.
With Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan.

Dec 9, 2014 • 54min
talk show 114: Christmas quiz
On this month's show - comedian Chris McCausland, filmmaker Dolly Sen and broadcaster Mik Scarlet join Kate and Rob in the studio for the seasonal disability quiz. With Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan.

Nov 17, 2014 • 54min
show 113: Did you say ‘inspiration porn’?
On this month's show - comedian Stella Young doesn't want to be considered an inspiration just for being disabled, and Bad Education star Jack Binstead on setting up his own YouTube channel.
Also, a 43 year-old husband and father with cystic fibrosis on how he stays positive with a shorter life expectancy. And our citizen correspondent on being cautious about reports of scientific breakthroughs.
With Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan