

Access All: Disability News and Mental Health
BBC Sounds
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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Sep 3, 2010 • 52min
Ouch! Talk Show, Sep 2010: Reasons to be cheerful
What dodgy photo of Liz appeared on the internet? Why did Simon only get charged half price for his spray tan? An Ian Dury musical, Orpheus project music and more. Liz Carr and Simon Minty present.

Aug 5, 2010 • 1h
Ouch! Talk Show #54 - August 2010
The Blind Football World Cup is held in Hereford this month, ahhh bet you didn't know that? Two England players join us. Plus great music from The Marianna Hollow, news man Rob's recent diagnosis and why not to get cured. Liz Carr and Gary O'Donoghue present.

Jun 30, 2010 • 58min
Ouch! Talk Show 53 - July 2010
We talk to Frank Gardner, the BBC correspondent who became disabled after being shot by Al-Qaeda gunmen. And what's it like at the Little People of America annual get-together? Liz Carr and Simon Minty present.

Jun 3, 2010 • 57min
Ouch! Talk Show 52 - June 2010
From laser surgery for access reasons to laughs at the expense of Paralympic mascot Mandeville, Mat Fraser and Liz Carr present a show bursting at the seams with disability splendour.
Big Brother's Nikki Grahame joins them instudio for an incredibly candid conversation about living with anorexia. Hear Mat and Liz stunned into silence for once as Nikki talks openly about her years in and out of hospitals and institutions and how she managed to turn her life around before entering the Big Brother house.
As if that wasn't enough, there's Veg, Veg or Veg and we play out with music by ska punk band La Rebla Fam before their appearance at Glastonbury later in the month.

May 5, 2010 • 49min
Ouch! Talk Show 51 - May 2010
Accessible kitchens gone bad, disabled Come Dine with Me, music and our Vegetable Vegetable or Vegetable parlour game. Warning: Not exactly traditional disability fare. Razor sharp chat with Liz Carr and Mat Fraser.

Apr 8, 2010 • 59min
Ouch! Talk Show 50 - April 2010
It's our 50th show! WE take a trip down memory lane to see what we've been doing these past four years. YouTube star The Fully Sick Rapper is on the phone from a quarantine room in a Sydney hospital and we hear the track 'Germaphobe' from his growing collection. Rob Crossan gives his quirky take on disability news, chat and our Vegetable Vegetable or Vegetable game has a very talkative contestant. Mat Fraser and Liz Carr present. (email us: ouch@bbc.co.uk)

Mar 4, 2010 • 1h 2min
Ouch! talk show - March 2010
Razor sharp chat which goes beyond disability and into: disabled foster parents, fat people too unfit to work (!) and knitted disabled chickens. Guests include the stars of Oscar nominated 'Music by Prudence' and the singers behind a new autoimmunity rock song 'What is going on'. As always, our Vegetable Vegetable or Vegetable game rears its ugly head. Email us: ouch@bbc.co.uk ... Mat Fraser and Julie Fernandez present.

Feb 9, 2010 • 54min
talk show - February 2010
Simone Milani and Paul Jacobs, two of the contestants from BBC3's brand new disability reality show, Dancing On Wheels, join Mat and Liz with lots of backstage gossip from the programme. Simon Minty takes us through the news. Music is by blind teenaged jazz singer Rocco Fiorentino, who joins by phone from the US for a quick chat, fresh from his cameo appearance on legendary educational kids TV show Sesame Street.

Jan 12, 2010 • 52min
talk show - January 2010
Guest interview with Adrian Mole author Sue Townsend who has an impressive list of disabilities and ailments to her name. News, chat, music and lots of razor sharp raspberry ripple sauce. With Liz Carr and Rob Crossan.

Dec 2, 2009 • 58min
Talk Show - December 2009
Join the usual Ouch taem and friends for disability childhood memories of Christmases past. Add in some freaky news, a badly sung carol and a ridiculous quiz and that's apparently how we are gonna mark the end of the decade. Featuring: Mat Fraser, Liz carr, Rob Crossan, Julie Fernandez and Kiruna Stamell.