The Way We Roll

24: The Phil & Simon Show No 24 - Were you the first disabled person you ever met?


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We’re two years old! Thank you for being our listener. Phil and Simon talk about disability on television, more specifically the pleasant surprise when someone on television happens to have a disability but it’s incidental to why they’re on. We contrast this with inspirational shows and wonder if such shows help.Finally, there are enforceable web accessibility standards…but hang on, haven’t they been around for years? We explain more.There’s new money from the Government to fund innovative programs to help retain disabled people in employment. We discuss if peer support would help ‘turn the tap off’ of lost talent, i.e. those who leave their job because of disability or health but could have stayed with the right adjustments.In the news round up, Belgium has reported on the authorised assisted deaths of two children aged nine and eleven, who had asked to die. There’s an update on the extension of the blue badge disabled parking scheme and Simon tells of his recent parking difficulties.**Links**BBC Four [The Prosecutors](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072130s)BBC Two [Horizon Spina Bifida and Me](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bcmjht)[](http://bit.ly/2CbDxwt)[New Web Standards](http://bit.ly/2CbDxwt)[New money to keep disabled people in work](http://bit.ly/2LrbpoW)[Belgium reports on authorised euthanasia](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/07/belgium-authorised-euthanasia-terminally-nine-11-year-old-youngest/)[TRANSCRIPT](https://www.dropbox.com/s/mio8rr7vf7nw34z/Transcript%20Phil%20%26%20Simon%20Show%20No%2024%20-%20Aug%202018.pdf?dl=0)
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