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Weekly podcast about mental health, wellbeing and disabled people.
Life stories and solutions with a friendly touch – for listeners around the world.
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Access All’s 100th episode
It's Access All's 100th edition! To mark the occasion we’ve provided a bumper episode – including an interview with Rose Ayling-Ellis talking about how she is changing the conversation around British Sign Language.
Also on the show: A glimpse behind the scenes – what really goes on when making Access All. Plus celebs give their advice on how to live your best disabled life.
Presenter Emma Tracey. The episode was made by Drew Hyndman, Niamh Hughes and Alex Collins
Recorded and mixed by Dave O’Neill
The editors were Damon Rose and Alex Lewis.
To get in touch with the team email accessall@bbc.co.uk or find us on X, @bbcaccessall. Don’t forget to subscribe by finding us on BBC Sounds. -
Outrage at ableist ‘prejudice’
Disability activist and commentator Samantha Renke says the law on disability hate speech needs to be strengthened after a podcast discussion about dating someone in a wheelchair goes viral.
Also on the show: Actress and comedian Ashley Storrie talks about the autistic character she plays in the new BBC Three comedy drama Dinosaur.
The episode was made by Daniel Gordon with Drew Hyndman and Alexander Collins
Recorded and mixed by Michael Regaard
The editor is Alex Lewis -
Disability academic Tom Shakespeare: Why I've started writing novels with a disabled hero
Tom Shakespeare is Access All presenter Emma Tracey's special guest for an Easter spectacular edition of the podcast.
He talks about becoming a novelist for the first time in his 50s, and why he created a disabled character to be the hero of his first non-fiction book.
He also discusses the work he is better known for - a lifetime of disability activism and research - and his profile as a commentator on issues that affect disabled people.
The episode was made by Daniel Gordon, with Niamh Hughes and Emma Tracey. The editor is Alex Lewis. Recorded and mixed by Dave O'Neill.
To get in touch with the team, email accessall@bbc.co.uk or find us on X, @bbcaccessall . -
Bradley Riches: autism, Celebrity Big Brother and me
Heartstopper star Bradley Riches lifts the lid on how he coped with having autism as a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother.
Also on the show: the inventor of a new dating app which he says is fully neuro-diverse friendly.
The episode was made by Daniel Gordon with Niamh Hughes and Emma Tracey.
Recorded and mixed by Dave O’Neill.
The editor is Alex Lewis.
To get in touch with the team email accessall@bbc.co..uk or find us on X, @bbcaccessall. -
UK government questioned on commitment to disabled people’s rights
The UN in Geneva questions the UK government on its commitment to disabled people. We speak to two people who followed the proceedings - disability reporter Rachel Charlton-Dailey and Rensa Gaunt from Inclusion London, which campaigns for equality for deaf and disabled people.
Actress and broadcaster Madison Tevlin on challenging assumptions about disabled people - and why having Down’s Syndrome is her least interesting trait.
Plus Don Biswas talks neurodiverse comedy.
The episode was made by Daniel Gordon with Niamh Hughes and Emma Tracey. The editor is Alex Lewis. Recorded and mixed by Dave O’Neill.
To get in touch with the team email accessall@bbc.co..uk or find us on X, @bbcaccessall. Don’t forget to subscribe by finding us on BBC Sounds. -
What was in the budget for disabled people?
In this episode, Emma Tracey gets reaction to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spending plans from Fazilet Hadi of Disability Rights UK. Plus Stephen Kingdom from the Disabled Children’s Partnership on the Budget announcement that £105 million is to be spent on building schools for students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
There’s also an interview with Henry Fraser. Once an aspiring rugby player, he was paralysed from the neck down after an accident on holiday and has since become famous for painting using his mouth and a specially-adapted paint brush.
The episode was made by Daniel Gordon with Niamh Hughes and Emma Tracey.
The editor is Alex Lewis.
Recorded by Hannah Montgomery.
Sound design by Dave O’Neill.
To get in touch with the team email accessall@bbc.co..uk or find us on X, @bbcaccessall.
Don’t forget to subscribe by finding us on BBC Sounds.
Customer Reviews
Great show
A show that can inform you make you laugh and sometimes cry keep it up ladies
Simply the best
Been listening to the show for years. Can’t express how much it’s helped me feel thought of, rather than thought about, as a congenitally disabled person in a society that so often overlooks us.
Much love and respect to all those involved.
Access
Im birth blind been in ill chaire due to injury many time with sport no explanation what was going on nothing and when you’re born blind you need descriptions when you travel I’ve been left in places that I shouldn’t be been posted to the wrong area like a postbox by the access team I got put on the wrong train and been put in a taxi to go home with my GuideDog not good explaining it able-bodied people is not the easiest thing all you get is when you’re used to it or alternatively you don’t understand you’ve not lost your sight Good podcast it’s about time that a podcast for disability is on it’s shocking to some people how we live In the pandemic to the able-bodied community it was shocking and I was put into shielding they said well you can’t see day and night so you shouldn’t had a problem I turned round and said well I can see nothing but at least you’ve got to see people visually audible when you went to work when you were allowed out different scenery different sounds you are in the wrong profession in the care health section saying well you kind of don’t see DNA anyway