Access All: Disability News and Mental Health

show 108: Adopt an activist


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The disability protest group Direct Action Network (DAN) is 25 years old. One of its founders talks to us about the campaigns which brought it fame - and notoriety - in the 1990s.

Plus, we meet the single disabled woman who, despite relying on personal assistants herself, has recently adopted a 15-month-old disabled child.
Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan present.

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