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Presenter Paul Carter is joined by business coach Robin Hindle-Fisher and disability consultant Phil Friend. They discuss unexpected positive consequences from an examination of the extra costs disabled people face which was carried out by Scope, the charity which funds...
In the latest conversation in our Head-To-Head podcast series, Ian Macrae meets Baroness Campbell of Surbiton. She talks about her suburban childhood and poor early schooling, the death of her first husband and its impact on her disability politics, her...
Lawyer Raquel Siganporia, disability consultant Maria Zedda and actor, writer and feminist Athena Stevens join Paul Carter. They discuss defining ourselves as disabled, life beyond the Paralympic circus and feminism and disabled women. Producer Ian Macrae.
Kicking off Disability Now’s Paralympic season is this interview with T42 sprinter Julie Rogers. At 17 she’s competing in the 100m in Rio but this is not her first Paralympic Games. In 2012 at the age of 13 she was...
Ian Macrae sits in for regular host Paul Carter and is joined by guests Mik Scarlet, Jane Hatton and performance poet Callum Brazzo who presents one of his poems towards the end of the show. Also under discussion, the woes...
Guests Lisa Egan, David Hevey and Michael McGrath join presenter Paul Carter to discuss problems with paying PAs redundancy, the recently launched National Disability Arts Collection and Archive celebrating the battle for disability rights and why some people positively want...
The guest on this epsiode of The Download: Head to Head, the extended interview sereis from Disability Now, is Frank Gardner, Security Correspondent at the BBC.
In this episode of The Download from Disability Now Paul Carter talks to entrepreneur and consultant Geoff Adams-Spink and writer and activist Penny Pepper. They discuss the impact of the National Living Wage on the cost of care, how to become...
In this edition of Disability Now’s discussion show The Download, we find out what the current hot storyline in Radio 4’s The Archers has to do with disabled people. Does being disabled and LGBT mean you fight a battle on...
At the age of 6 Evelyn Glennie contracted mumps which affected her hearing. From then on she gradually became increasingly deaf. But by the time she was twelve she had already decided on a career as a musician. But the...
Ahead of the publication of his new book, All Our Welfare Professor Peter Beresford talks to Ian Macrae about his childhood, racial identity, mental health, an academic career spanning more than 25 years, what welfare should mean today and boxing.
For this edition of The Download, Disability Now’s topical and lively discussion show, presenter Paul Carter is joined by Roger Lewis of Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), James Price, MD of lobby group on hotel accessibility Access All rooms and...
Deaf actor Genevieve Barr was catapulted into public notice in 2011 when she landed a major role in BBC1 prime time drama series The Silence. Now she tells Ian Macrae that she’s proud to call her co-stars in that show...
We talk bionics in this special of The Download: can they change the lives of disabled people? Are they a threat to our disability identity? Or the answer to all our prayers? Host Paul Carter is joined by Mik Scarlet,...
Comedian Laurence Clark talks to Ian Macrae in Disability Now’s interview show. He discusses school days, comedy influences, an encounter with Jimmy Savile and also tells his least favourite disability related joke.
Paul Carter is joined by Guests Sue Bott of Disability Rights UK, Editor of Disability Now Ian Macrae and writer, critic and activist Mike Shamash who kick off the new year talking about hopes and fears for 201g
Paul Carter chats with multiple Paralympic, World and European gold medallist about her journey from frustrated teenager to international star.
Paul Carter is joined by guests Professor Peter Beresford, Kyle Jordan and Grace Wong as for fun and engaging discussion of the latest disability issues.
Paul Carter is joined by Fran Macilvey, Richard Butchins and Zara Todd for more insightful and intelligent disability discourse.
Paul Carter and Ian Macrae are joined by Mike Smith, chief executive of Real, Sarah Ismail of blog Same Difference, and accessible kitchen designer Adam Thomas to discuss the month's pressing disability matters.
Actor, writer, presenter and now aspiring TV producer Kim Tserkezie talks to Ian Macrae about being a Geordie disabled woman of Greek heritage, feeling queasy about Robson Green and being Penny Pocket in children’s TV show Balamory.
Episode 28: Paul Carter and Victoria Wright are joined in the studio by guests Phil Friend, Phillipa Willets and Tracey Proudlock to discuss how the parties' manifestos bode for disabled people. Also on the agenda are social housing and the...
He produced one of the albums of the 1980s, Sade's Diamond Life and has worked with the cream of the rock crop. In conversation with Paul Carter, Robin Millar discusses the importance of role models, his career in music production,...
Young people, mental health and work: Paul Carter and Victoria Wright are joined by graduate Megan Field who is currently job hunting and deciding whether or not to declare that she is disabled. They're also joined by Nikki Mattocks, a...
He's Britain's most successful disabled politician with forty-five years in local and national government. He's held some of the highest offices in the land and weathered two major personal and political crises, both of which cost him his job. And...
Presenters Paul Carter and Helen Dolphin are joined by Dr Tom Shakespeare, Zara Todd and Mik Scarlet. On the agenda, non-disabled actors 'cripping up', disabled people employing PAs and passenger assistance when travelling by rail.
Baroness (Tanni) Grey Thompson in conversation with Paul Carter talks about life after sporting fame, life in the chamber of the House of Lords and why she feels how she does about assisted dying. Also, stand by for your chance...
Presenter Paul Carter is joined by guests Agnes Fletcher and Mike Shamash who discuss Sue Marsh's reasons for joining the system she's campaigned against. They also look back over twenty years of anti-discrimination legislation and marvel at the things some...
The first in a brand new series of podcasts where we interview famous, notable, newsworthy or just plain interesting disabled people. This time Paul Carter talks to the literary figure, former criminal and prisoner Benjamin Zephaniah. He remains a rebel and...
Paul Carter is joined by Disability Now Editor Ian Macrae and guests. Photographer Giles Duley talks about his experience following serious traumatic injury in Afghanistan and resuming his work documenting the impact of conflict and disaster around the world. And...
Paul Carter and Victoria Wright meet disabled author Richard Butchins who discusses his chilling book Pavment: Alan Bensen is on board to talk access to public transport and Sophie Partridge ponders the relationship between disabled people and charity.
Paul Carter and Helen Dolphin discuss the party conferences, the future of the Independent Living Fund, and Disability and the First World war. They are joined by Ellen Clifford from Disabled People Against Cuts, Gary Bourlet from People First England, Richard...
Paul Carter and Annie Makoff discuss whether changes to the special educational needs system will promote inclusion for disabled learners and they discuss disabled people's frustrations with the Access to Work scheme. They are joined by the Alliance for Inclusive Education's...
Victoria Wright and Ian Macrae hear from the new disability minister Mark Harper. They also discuss the extra costs of disability and Scope's Extra Costs Commission, plans to increase the number of disabled people on and off screen at the...
Helen Dolphin and Ian Macrae Discuss disability and human rights. They are joined by Lara Masters, a writer who's currently trying to build a home which meets her access needs, the disabled human rights lawyer John Horan, and Laurence Clark, one...
Jessica Tom talks about life with Tourettes and her new show Back Stage in Biscuit Land for the Edinburgh Fringe. Disability Officer Hannah Paterson from the National Union of Students raises students' concerns on changes to funding for disabled students and social...
With the general election around 12 months away, Paul Carter and Helen Dolphin hear from the shadow disability minister Kate Green and discuss what Labour's policies would mean for disabled voters. They also ask if Scope's End The Awkward campaign will...
With the government announcing that the Independent Living Fund (ILF) will close in June 2015, Paul Carter and Ian Macrae ask if 20 thousand ILF users will be forced into institutions. They ask if a parliamentary vote on the right...
Following an opinion poll of heroes which was topped by three disabled people, Paul Carter and Victoria Wright discuss what lies behind the concept of heroic disabled people. They also discuss the accessibility of public transport and the collective consciousness of...
Paul Carter and Kiruna Stamell are joined by Billy Burton, the disabled man sentenced to life in the Philippines in 1992 for drug trafficking, Rick Burgess, one of the activists behind the War On Welfare petition which could trigger a...
Paul Carter and Victoria Wright discuss the independent living movement and disabled people's experiences of school. They also hear from the activist Kaliya Franklin who has published a report suggesting that the government has imposed targets for the number of...
Paul Carter and Kiruna Stamell discuss disability arts and they hear from the new disability minister Mike Penning. They are joined by Tony Heaton, chief executive of the disability arts organisation Shape, and Penny Pepper.
Francesca Martinez joins Paul Carter and Victoria Wright to talk about War On Welfare, the campaign she's leading to put pressure on the government to debate its programme of cuts in the Commons and scrap the fitness for work test. They...
Paul Carter and Kiruna Stamell talk disabled people and debt, and they discuss why the Equality and Human Rights Commission's plan to abolish its Disability Committee could be a setback for disability equality. They also discuss Jim Davidson's outburst against...
Paul Carter and Sophie Partridge discuss the Liverpool Care Pathway, the end-of-life treatment which led to people being drugged and deprived of fluids and the Channel 4 series The Undateables which follows disabled people in their quest for a date....
Dame Anne Begg, the Labour MP who chairs the committee of MPs which scrutinises the government's welfare reform policies, talks about her concerns relating to PIP assessments and Work Capability Assessments. Paul Carter and Penny Pepper discuss disability and employment and...
Paul Carter and Victoria Wright discuss air travel and the social model of disability, the ideology which has been the guiding light of disability activism since the 1980s. And Mat Gilbert, who plays for Bath, talks to Paul about being...
Paul Carter and Penny Pepper discuss Margaret Thatcher's legacy for disabled people and disabled people's organisations. They are joined by Julie Newman, acting chair of the UK Disabled People's Council, Tracey Lazard, chief executive of Inclusion London and Mandy Hudson who...
Paul Carter and Sophie Partridge are joined by Rob Murthwaite from Disabled People Against Cuts to discuss what makes an effective protest. Paul talks to Dr Stephen Duckworth, the disabled person who leads a team working for a company carrying...
