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The DDA and Me
On the 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act, BBC News Correspondent Nikki Fox asks three generations of disabled people about the im…
5 years, 11 months ago
CripTales: Thunderbox
It's 1968 and Sue is in the toilet at a pop festival. Abortion, which has just been legalised, provides a moment of liberation. But for wheelchair us…
5 years, 11 months ago
CripTales: The Real Deal
In this monologue starring Liz Carr, Meg thinks her neighbour is a benefits cheat. She is compiling details about him in order to shop him for fraud.…
5 years, 11 months ago
CripTales: Audition
In this monologue from the series CripTales, disabled actor Mat Fraser sits in the waiting room before an audition, dreading how it will turn out. He…
5 years, 11 months ago
'I was howling with pain and there was blood everywhere'
In 2004 BBC journalist and author Frank Gardner was shot six times by Islamist extremists while on a reporting job in Saudi Arabia.
Against all the od…
5 years, 11 months ago
‘I couldn’t hear my voice’
A crash in Morgan Fox's final season as a cyclist left him with fractured ribs and a collapsed lung. Then, an overdose of antibiotics given during hi…
5 years, 11 months ago
There’s Covid On Campus
From online learning to entire halls of residences being placed in lockdown, students across the country have found themselves at university in extre…
6 years ago
‘There’s no right way to be a student’
Starting University can be incredibly exciting but also daunting – especially given the current Covid-19 restrictions. And what if you have a disab…
6 years ago
‘I miss the office banter’
As working from home becomes the new normal, is it really all its cracked up to be? Or could it actually be making the situation worse for disabled s…
6 years ago
'Remember when we were stockpiling toilet roll'
Kate Monaghan has been isolating with her wife Holly and daughter Scout since March.
Kate has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and endometriosis and Holly is th…
6 years ago