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 – for listeners around the world.
Episodes to download
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When Access All took over Newscast
Fri 17 Feb 2023
Nikki Fox and Emma Tracey step into the Newscast studio
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ADHD and the trend of diagnosis by TikTok
Fri 10 Feb 2023
How a hashtag has helped and hindered people.
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'Wonderstruck': The author who learned to read again
Fri 3 Feb 2023
Author Thomas Leeds lost his memory in a road accident and had to learn to read again.
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Disabled people are up, carers are down
Fri 20 Jan 2023
The stats are in and there are fewer disabled people than expected
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GP: 'The whole NHS now is a big bin-fire'
Thu 12 Jan 2023
How the current health care crisis is affecting disabled people
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The people who train their own guide dogs
Fri 6 Jan 2023
With long waiting lists for guide dogs, we meet the people who train their own
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Access All Christmas Special - Best Bits of 2022
Fri 30 Dec 2022
Your favourite Access All podcast moments from 2022 in one place
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Access All Christmas Special – The Governess Anne Hegerty
Fri 23 Dec 2022
From ‘The Chase’ auditioning process to becoming a household name
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Mental health: The festive survival guide
Fri 16 Dec 2022
How to protect your mental health over the Christmas holidays.
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Look who’s audio describing you
Fri 9 Dec 2022
Nikki and Emma meet Georgina Rose, audio describer often heard on ѿý TV
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The mystery of the missing disability minister… solved!
Fri 2 Dec 2022
Nikki and Emma meet the new Minister of State for Disabled People, Tom Pursglove
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One giant leap for disabled people?
Fri 25 Nov 2022
The European Space Agency announces the world’s first disabled astronaut – he’s a Brit!
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What's in the Autumn Statement for disabled people?
Thu 17 Nov 2022
Nikki Fox gets the lowdown on what the Autumn Statement means if you're disabled
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Ellie Simmonds: “Strictly gave me confidence”
Fri 11 Nov 2022
Five-time Paralympic gold medal winner, Ellie Simmonds, talks Strictly
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‘How Taylor Swift helps me to tell the time’
Fri 4 Nov 2022
ѿý Reporter Rose has dyscalculia, which means she has trouble making sense of numbers
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'I'm visually impaired, but cancer information wasn't accessible'
Fri 28 Oct 2022
The RNIB chair and her horror at being unable to access information for cancer treatment
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“People have turned off their fridges to save money”
Fri 21 Oct 2022
The impact of record inflation on disabled people
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From three carers to none
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Wheelchair user Natalie lost her entire care package because of rising fuel costs
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The mystery of the missing disability minister
Fri 7 Oct 2022
Super sleuths Nikki Fox and Emma Tracy, look at who the new disabilities minister might be
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Anne Hegerty: ‘Quizzing is easy, household tasks are the hard bit’
Fri 30 Sep 2022
Queen of quizzing, Anne Hegerty, on being autistic and dealing with vampires
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Family of six share a one-bed flat while new house is made accessible
Fri 16 Sep 2022
The council says it could be another 12 months before work is completed on the new home.
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'Wet wipes and dry shampoo get you a long way'
Fri 2 Sep 2022
Baroness Jane Campbell reveals her 'fear' about the lack of PAs working in the UK
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‘Half my income goes on energy bills’
Fri 26 Aug 2022
We look at some of the proposed solutions to the problem so far
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The summer catch-up
Fri 19 Aug 2022
Nikki and Emma play their favourite and unheard clips from the podcast so far
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Locked away in Ukraine’s orphanages
Fri 5 Aug 2022
Thousands of disabled people live in Ukraine's orphanages - but many aren't even orphans
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'My leg amputation was the best day of my life'
Fri 29 Jul 2022
Para-swimmer Alice Tai elected to have a below-knee amputation
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‘I was stuck in my flat for 12 days in the searing heat’
Fri 22 Jul 2022
Adam’s stuck in his flat for 12 days and attitudes towards disabled people revealed
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Staying cool in heatwave hell
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Disabled people reveal their top tips on getting through the UK heatwave.
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