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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Emergency episode: 'Bittersweet' welfare reform bill waved through
Tuesday
Emergency episode: 'Bittersweet' welfare reform bill waved through on government vote
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Emergency episode: The welfare reform climb-down
Last Friday
What concessions have the government made to their welfare reform plans?
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What's the secret to a happy ADHD child?
Last Wednesday
And how to survive a festival when you're neurodivergent
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Q&A: The welfare reform bill is out, what does it say?
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Emma Tracey, Michael Buchannan and Jasmine Andersson answer your questions
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How do you go open water swimming if you鈥檙e blind or in a wheelchair?
Wed 11 Jun 2025
And Dr Grace Spence Green, the woman disabled by a falling man at a shopping centre
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Ringside seat on a therapy session
Wed 4 Jun 2025
And why you can鈥檛 get an accessible taxi after 6pm in Northern Ireland
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Writer Jack Thorne among 100 slamming benefit cut plans
Tue 27 May 2025
And newspaper columnist, Frances Ryan, on her new book
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鈥楳y life is on the line鈥�: Why disabled people protest
Wed 21 May 2025
And Paralympian Ellie Simmonds on her new documentary, Should I Have Children?
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Disabled Labour MP can't support benefits cuts
Wed 14 May 2025
Nadia Wittome says it's not what people voted for
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"Giving birth is like a quick introduction to disability"
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Physically disabled and neurodivergent mums on caring and being cared for
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Doing it differently: Tips on how to get a job if you're disabled
Wed 23 Apr 2025
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, 成人快手 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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