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show 108: Adopt an activist
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 -…
12 years ago
show 107: Mental vacuum
Meet The Vacuum Cleaner, also known as artist and activist James Leadbitter. He invites you to help him design the perfect asylum and talks about the…
12 years, 1 month ago
show 106: The care home crusader
The man in his 30s who lives in a care home and takes companies to task for disability discrimination. Why do some disabled people hate being called …
12 years, 2 months ago
show 105: Biswas not Tiswas
Our citizen journalists report on animals and cures. Meet the student whose path altered when she became disabled in the first week of her Dance A-le…
12 years, 3 months ago
show 104: Purple people
Heather Mills is out of the Winter Paralympics. Are The Undatables really undatable? What do you do when your care role ends? And why do we say the d…
12 years, 4 months ago
show 103: Bah humbug
On this month's show: Three real life Grinches, Paralympian Hannah Cockroft talks about wheelchair dancing on Strictly, and are disabled people in ne…
12 years, 5 months ago
show 102: Not The Truman Show
Video-blogger Jonny says being open is good, the disability autobiography quiz and the future access technology that's already here. With Rob Crossan.
12 years, 6 months ago
show 101: Disability 'mate' crime
The Last Leg's Alex Brooker on how he almost became a Paralympian himself. That great disability perk, queue-jumping at Disney, is on the way out. An…
12 years, 8 months ago
show 100: Sex and relationships special
How does a young man go about losing his virginity when his arms and legs don't work? What's it like to be both gay and disabled? And is falling in l…
12 years, 8 months ago
show 99: Hops and halos
Ever heard of the invalid stout sold a hundred years ago to cure disability? Also, the man who says volunteering saved his life after a spell in hosp…
12 years, 10 months ago