Access All: Disability News and Mental Health Podcast
Weekly podcast about mental health, wellbeing and disabled people.
Life stories and solutions with a friendly touch – for listeners around the world.
Episodes to download
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Funny people
Fri 1 Jul 2016
"There's these two comedians, one with cerebral palsy, one with bipolar."
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Yoga after paralysis
Fri 24 Jun 2016
Tiffany Joiner's Instagram posts are enjoyed by disabled "yogis"
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Walking on stumps
Fri 17 Jun 2016
Oscar Pistorius's courtroom appearance raises questions about disability and dignity
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Love, sex and cotton buds
Fri 10 Jun 2016
How physical relationships can be quite different if you are disabled
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"I love a bit of shock value"
Fri 3 Jun 2016
Meet one-handed pianist Nicholas McCarthy and Don't Take My Baby actor Ruth Madeley.
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'Me before euthanasia'
Thu 26 May 2016
Mik Scarlet explains why the film of the Jojo Moyes book has caused a stir.
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'My wheelchair makes me a human'
Fri 20 May 2016
George Fielding has a cappuccino coloured chair which suits his 'young but old' image
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Training to use a guide dog isn't always a walk in the park
Fri 13 May 2016
They're amazing, but new owners need to put in the work and may get the occasional bump
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'What's for dinner?'
Fri 6 May 2016
Three disabled food connoisseurs discuss cooking when you're disabled
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Hairy situations
Fri 22 Apr 2016
The problems of styling your hair and beard when you’re blind or can’t reach your head.
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Would you ditch your disability given the chance?
Fri 15 Apr 2016
We try to imagine who we’d be, minus our disabilities.
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Would you buy chocolate if its label warned you how much exercise you'd need to burn it off?
Fri 8 Apr 2016
Would labels on sweets suggesting exercise targets work for disabled people?
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10th anniversary show
Fri 1 Apr 2016
Looking back on the first decade of Ouch's podcast, its comedy and its talk
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Tales from the train
Thu 24 Mar 2016
The team share personal stories about journeys on public transport
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Vegetable, vegetable or vegetable?
Fri 18 Mar 2016
We rewind to 2007 and a game of Vegetable, vegetable or vegetable?
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Sex and money
Fri 11 Mar 2016
The people 'turned on' by disability, and the writer who says capitalism is disabling
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On this special day
Mon 7 Mar 2016
The team discuss those big awareness days like International Wheelchair Day or Autism Day
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Fiction containing disabled characters - do you embrace them, or 'read 'em and weep'?
Fri 26 Feb 2016
We share our thoughts on fictional disabled characters who have caught our imagination.
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Your disability anniversary
Fri 19 Feb 2016
Do you mark the day you became disabled? The team discuss, with guests.
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'Charging the battery': coping with a disability and a mental illness
Fri 12 Feb 2016
Open and frank stories of coping with mental illness and a disability, and strategies.
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... like an LGBT for disability
Fri 5 Feb 2016
Would it be better to use an acronym instead of 'disabled' if it works for others?
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Using chopsticks with your toes
Fri 29 Jan 2016
Mat Fraser and Liz Carr on the best way to 'access' food - archive from Nov 2010
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A colouring book for blind people
Fri 22 Jan 2016
Not an immediately obvious gift for someone who can't see but could it work?
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Disabled mums and sign names
Thu 14 Jan 2016
The extra risks of being a disabled mum, and the sometimes offensiveness of sign names.
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The questions kids ask
Fri 8 Jan 2016
What happens when your child starts to question or be embarrassed by your disability?
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Would you live next door to a ‘handicapped’ person?
Fri 18 Dec 2015
The Ouch team plays a game of 1980s dilemmas.
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Ouch 'Christmas dinner' special
Fri 4 Dec 2015
Kids, crackers and is it OK to be given a disability related prezzie?
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"You walk funny" - repeat
Fri 27 Nov 2015
How the Ouch team get along. Plus, internet dating, do you tell people you're disabled?
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