Disability Arts Online presents The Disability and...Podcast

Disability Arts Online

The Disability and…Podcast gets right to the heart of some of the most pressing issues in arts, culture and beyond with a series of bold, provocative and insightful interviews with disabled artists, key industry figures and the odd legend. The Disability and…Podcast is currently monthly.

  1. Disability and... Learning Disabled Directors with Flo O'Mahony

    12 JAN

    Disability and... Learning Disabled Directors with Flo O'Mahony

    This month, writer, dramaturg and director, Kate Lovell chats with Artistic Director of Zoo Co theatre, Flo O’Mahony, about their production Perfect Show for Rachel. Perfect Show is directed by Flo's sister, Rachel, a theatre-loving, enigmatic, learning-disabled woman. Kate and Flo discuss the practicalities of having a learning-disabled person in creative control, how audiences have responded and how the production has evolved over time.

    51 min
  2. Disability and...Access to Work with Jess Thom

    08/12/2025

    Disability and...Access to Work with Jess Thom

    In this episode of Disability and... choreographer and artistic director of Cathy Waller Company, Cathy Waller chats with writer, artist and activist Jess Thom about her recent experience of claiming Access to Work.Cathy Waller Company works in partnership with disability arts online to deliver Decode, which is a vital service helping disabled creatives to navigate the Access to Work application process. You can find Disability Arts Online's Access to work guide at disabilityarts.online/atwFind out more about Decode disabilityarts.online/decodeThe postal address for Access to Work is: Access to Work Service Centre, Harrow Jobcentre, Mail Handling Site A, Wolverhampton, WV98 1JE

    1h 20m
  3. Disability and...Survivor Writing with Jet Moon

    13/10/2025

    Disability and...Survivor Writing with Jet Moon

    This month DAO Founding Editor Colin Hambrook is joined on the Disability and... podcast by writer and activist Jet Moon. They discuss Jet's You Are Here project, an online resource which shares interviews and creative output from a survivor's writing group.

    45 min
  4. Disability and...Advertising with Alison Wilde and Ella Houston

    05/09/2025

    Disability and...Advertising with Alison Wilde and Ella Houston

    In this months episode of Disability and... Dr Alison Wilde, an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, chats with Dr Ella Houston, a senior lecturer in Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, about her book Advertising Disability.

    44 min
  5. Disability and...Towards New Worlds with Joanne Coates and Louise Mclachlan

    29/07/2025

    Disability and...Towards New Worlds with Joanne Coates and Louise Mclachlan

    This month on Disability and...curator Aidan Moesby chats to artists Joanne Coates and Louise Mclachlan about their participation in Towards New Worlds, a 'groundbreaking' exhibition of 15 disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent artists which Aidan co-curated at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. Themes from the discussion include identity, the power of photography to tell stories, and the importance of safe spaces like Towards New Worlds for disabled artists.

    1h 3m
  6. Disability and...The Affirmation Model with Colin Cameron

    09/06/2025

    Disability and...The Affirmation Model with Colin Cameron

    This month, Colin Hambrook talks to Dr Colin Cameron, who is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University about The Affirmation Model of disability and his critique of the ableism at the heart of the Equality Act 2010.

    46 min

  7. 13/05/2025

    Disability and…Three Years with Mind the Gap with Colin Hambrook & Paul Wilshaw

    This month, Colin Hambrook, Founding Editor of Disability Arts Online, and Paul Wilshaw, Engagement and Advocacy Worker at Mind the Gap, look back at the last three years of the Disability and… podcast.Going forward, Disability and… will be produced solely by Disability Arts Online, while Mind the Gap will launch their own bi-monthly podcast.Colin and Paul talk about their favourite interviews and what producing the podcast has meant to them.

    36 min

  8. 27/02/2025

    Disability and...Dwarfism Arts and Advocacy with Steph Robson and Erin Pritchard

    In this episode Steph Robson is joined by academic and author Erin Pritchard to talk about Erin's latest book 'Dwarfism, Arts and Advocacy: Creating Our Own Positive Identity'.

    41 min
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The Disability and…Podcast gets right to the heart of some of the most pressing issues in arts, culture and beyond with a series of bold, provocative and insightful interviews with disabled artists, key industry figures and the odd legend. The Disability and…Podcast is currently monthly.

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