Access All: Disability News and Mental Health Podcast
Weekly podcast about mental health, wellbeing and disabled people.
Life stories and solutions with a friendly touch 鈥� for listeners around the world.
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Doing it differently: Tips on how to get a job if you're disabled
Yesterday
When it can be harder to gain employment if you're disabled
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Blind influencer Lucy Edwards on writing and IVF
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Gene testing and how Lucy loves being blind
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Disability minister on controversial benefit cuts
Mon 7 Apr 2025
Disability minister Sir Stephen Timms on 拢5bn planned benefit cuts
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MP John McDonnell鈥檚 鈥榮hock and anger鈥� at benefit cuts
Wed 2 Apr 2025
'I was really shocked': MP John McDonnell on plans for benefit cuts
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'I used to hear tormenting voices day in, day out'
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Paranoid schizophrenia: 'I used to hear tormenting voices day in, day out'
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Amputee F3 racer Billy Monger: "You think nothing serious will happen to you"
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Formula 3 racer Billy Monger looks back on the crash that changed his life
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Benefits reforms: Emergency episode
Tue 18 Mar 2025
How will benefits reforms affect disabled claimants?
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鈥淚 lost my benefits at 16 for saying I could cook鈥�
Wed 12 Mar 2025
Thousands of teen claimants lose benefits at 16, 蜜芽传媒 data find
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The novelist who changed the world with her foot
Thu 6 Mar 2025
Polly Crosby talks about being the first baby with a positive CF heel prick test
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Disabled life in Ukraine after three years of war
Wed 26 Feb 2025
We catch-up with Oleksii and his mum Raisa
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Para-bobsleigh champ: 鈥楻ollercoasters have become boring鈥�
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Corie Mapp on winning gold and courting risk
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The teen who won a legal fight for a BSL interpreter in class
Wed 12 Feb 2025
The 16-year-old whose right to a BSL interpreter was recognised by a Scottish tribunal
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鈥楾ime is the enemy鈥� for actor playing Richard III
Wed 5 Feb 2025
Michael Patrick on winning an award for playing Richard III with motor neurone disease
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People diagnosed with ADHD "dying younger"
Wed 29 Jan 2025
A British study finds women diagnosed with ADHD die nine years sooner.
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Disabled and living through the California wildfires: 鈥淵ou live on edge鈥�
Wed 22 Jan 2025
Facing the California wildfires when you鈥檙e disabled and marking Holocaust Memorial Day
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The parents losing hope over SEND system
Wed 15 Jan 2025
We hear from a family who have been forced into debt over their children's SEND needs
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Disabled film director: 鈥業t was like I was invisible鈥�
Wed 8 Jan 2025
Director Owen Tooth on his switch from film sets to EastEnders
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What will 2025 bring for disabled people?
New Year's Day 2025
A look at the year ahead for disabled people and mental health service users
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Strictly winner Chris McCausland: 鈥淚t was a hell of a ride鈥�
Wed 18 Dec 2024
Blind Strictly star Chris McCausland on dancing, conquering self-doubt and his new film
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Paralympian James Brown: My disability needs were denied in prison
Wed 11 Dec 2024
Paralympian protestor: I won compensation after my access needs were denied to me in jail
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New kids鈥� toys launched to help people with hidden disabilities
Wed 4 Dec 2024
Toy figures wearing lanyards could help children understand hidden disabilities
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Mental health campaigners want government to give up "unhealthy benefit war rhetoric"
Wed 27 Nov 2024
Mental health campaigners fear strategy will focus on "unhealthy benefit war rhetoric".
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鈥淥ur voices need to be heard鈥� - disabled witnesses at the Covid inquiry
Wed 20 Nov 2024
Disabled people give testimony in phase three of the Covid inquiry
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Coalition of 350 disability organisations against Assisted Dying Bill
Wed 13 Nov 2024
More than 350 disabled organisations form a coalition against the Assisted Dying Bill
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Paul Whitehouse and Dr Mine Conkbayir on ADHD
Wed 6 Nov 2024
Dr Mine Conkbayir and her comedy actor husband Paul Whitehouse on ADHD
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What does Rachel Reeves' Budget mean for disabled people?
Wed 30 Oct 2024
The Budget is done and dusted and the US elections about to start.
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Gareth Gates and Ed Balls on stammering
Mon 21 Oct 2024
Pop Idol star Gareth Gates and ex-politician Ed Balls on navigating life with a stammer
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鈥業 just want a job鈥�: The challenge facing young disabled go-getters
Tue 15 Oct 2024
Why is the transition from education to work so hard for young disabled people?
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LGBTQ+ eating disorders on Heartstopper and Tom Gates author, Liz Pichon
Wed 9 Oct 2024
Heartstopper and LGBTQ+ eating disorders plus Tom Gates author, Liz Pichon
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