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How do you go open water swimming if you’re blind or in a wheelchair?
Emma Tracey explores how accessible beaches are if you are a wheelchair user, and how inclusive open water swimming is if you can't see. Some really …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Ringside seat on a therapy session
Ever wondered what other people's therapy sessions are like? We meet a counsellor with her client and talk about the why and the how of building back…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Writer Jack Thorne among 100 slamming benefit cut plans
More than 100 influential disabled people have signed an open letter to Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, calling £5bn worth of benefit cuts, “cruel”.
Scr…
1 year ago
‘My life is on the line’: Why disabled people protest
On both sides of the Atlantic disabled people are protesting, despite the sometimes tricky logistics.
In the UK, a mass lobby event was held on 21 May…
1 year ago
Disabled Labour MP can't support benefits cuts
Labour MP for Nottingham East, Nadia Whittome, cannot support the announced benefits changes and speaks to Emma Tracey about the experiences she has …
1 year ago
Braille and me
The dotty medium of Braille has just turned 200 years old. Famously invented by French boy, Louis Braille, it spread worldwide and became the way bli…
1 year ago
"Giving birth is like a quick introduction to disability"
There's a bit of a parental feel about this week's podcast. Two mums from Nottingham were categorised in a hospital computer system as having learn…
1 year, 1 month ago
Doing it differently: Tips on how to get a job if you're disabled
This week we bring you inspiration and strategies for getting a job if you're disabled, with tips from two disabled people who have heaps of experien…
1 year, 1 month ago
Blind influencer Lucy Edwards on writing and IVF
Lucy Edwards, well known influencer and star of TV shampoo commercials (among many other things), joins Emma Tracey to talk about her new book for ch…
1 year, 1 month ago
Disability minister on controversial benefit cuts
Sir Stephen Timms, the minister for Social Security and Disability talks to Emma Tracey about the proposed £5bn worth of welfare cuts the government …
1 year, 1 month ago