Carousel presents Shut Up and Listen

Carousel radio presents spoken word, stories, poems and features by people with a learning disability. Each month Carousel radio bring you a new show on a new theme. This show is about Travel.

Carousel radio presents spoken word, stories, poems and features by people with a learning disability. Each month Carousel radio bring you a new show on a new theme. This show is about animals. This is Carousel's new radio show and replaces 'Shut Up & Listen!'.

The final Shut Up & Listen! podcast features an interview and music from London-based rock band, The Autistix. Francis from Shut up & Listen interviews Jack Beaven Duggan, Luke Steels and Saul Zur-Szpiro after their gig at the Blue Camel Club. They talk about their favourite music, their best gigs and play their latest single. More info at www.theautistix.com

Fran interviews 'Too Hot for Candy' after their gig at Brighton's Blue Camel Club. They are Singer-songwriter Kali Perkins, musician Arthur Lea and drummer Isaac Palm.

Inspired by Prince, Sly and the Family Stone and with big beats and funky drumming, this is music you can party to! Too Hot For Candy are produced by Heart n Soul.

The Shut Up & Listen! radio crew talk to clubbers, bands and staff at Carousel's Blue Camel Club held at the Corn Exchange in Brighton.

The Shut Up & Listen! radio reporters talk to clubbers, DJs, bands and staff at the Blue Camel Club held at the Corn Exchange in Brighton

Tutors, Fran and Chris take us behind the scenes of Carousel's 10 week music making and DJ training course for people with a learning disability.

Fran Reynolds takes a look at Carousel Singers: a 30-strong choir of singers with learning disabilities. Carousel Singers was formed in 2011 as part of a Paralympic Project called Gold Run, a multi-media show they devised with support from Carousel, Glyndebourne and Pallant House Gallery.

Since Gold Run, Carousel Singers has continued to meet weekly during term time. The singers have worked with a number of musicians and choir leaders to develop their skills and create new music. Carousel Singers have started working with their own dedicated band of musicians. A lively choir, Carousel Singers is made up of people with a broad range of learning disabilities with an infectious enthusiasm for performing their own compositions. They seek to challenge assumptions of what a choir can be.

Creative Minds is led by learning disabled artists and performers. It is about seeing, talking and questioning. The events aim to get people talking about how we know that art by learning disabled artists and performers is good and of a high quality. Francis visited the first conference to find out what is was all about.

After a 2014 performance at the Blue Camel Club, Shut Up & Listen spoke to singer/songwriter Daniel Wakeford about his music, his performance at the European Song Festival in Stockholm and his romantic adventures on the Channel 4 TV show, 'The Undateables'.