Access All: Disability News and Mental Health
Weekly podcast about mental health, wellbeing and disabled people. Life stories and solutions with a friendly touch – for listeners around the world.
Mental health campaigners want government to give up "unhealthy benefit war rhetoric"
“Our voices need to be heard” - disabled witnesses at the Covid inquiry
Coalition of 350 disability organisations against Assisted Dying Bill
Paul Whitehouse and Dr Mine Conkbayir on ADHD
What does Rachel Reeves' Budget mean for disabled people?
Gareth Gates and Ed Balls on stammering
‘I just want a job’: The challenge facing young disabled go-getters
LGBTQ+ eating disorders on Heartstopper and Tom Gates author, Liz Pichon
Inside MI5 with an autistic intelligence officer
Why did 2,000 Essex mental health patients die?
The 40-year-olds who are in bed by 5pm
Alison Lapper on life, art, parenting and grief
Paralympics 2024: The Prosthesis Menders
Paralympics 2024: The gold edition
Paralympics 2024: Where do you keep your medal?
Preparing for the Paralympics with sweat Hoovers and heat chambers
Stephen Fry: The mental scars of Ukraine's war
Live at the Edinburgh Festivals: Adam Hills and Dan Tiernan
Live at the Edinburgh Festivals: Matt Forde and Abby Cook
“Therapists are scared of getting it wrong on race”
Accessible housing: ‘I lived in a hotel for 17 months’
‘I was desperate’: The ads for unlicensed ADHD meds getting banned
‘It felt really unfair’: The disabled migrants turned away from Australia
Disability hate speech in football
Election Q&A: Employment, cost of living and Carer’s Allowance
Election interviews: The Green Party, Reform UK and Plaid Cymru’s disability policies
Election interviews: The Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party’s disability policies
Election interviews: The Labour Party’s disability policies
Election interviews: The Conservative Party’s disability policies
Election Q and A: mental health, children and housing
Election: Why is it so hard for blind people to vote in secret?
Election Q+A: PIPs, social care and voter ID
Living with a disability in Gaza and Ukraine
Will AI be helpful or ableist towards disabled people?
Paralympics boss Dave Clarke: the unwitting trailblazer
Mims Davies MP: “My dad was disabled for twenty-five years”
Liz Carr talks to us about her new documentary about assisted dying
PIP Consultation: Vouchers instead of money?
Life in a mental health unit when you shouldn't be there
Access All’s 100th episode
Outrage at ableist ‘prejudice’
Disability academic Tom Shakespeare: Why I've started writing novels with a disabled hero
Bradley Riches: autism, Celebrity Big Brother and me
UK government questioned on commitment to disabled people’s rights
What was in the budget for disabled people?
I can’t work without my ADHD meds
I’m a disabled student about to leave college, what next?
Bryony Gordon and the conjoined twin ‘warriors’
To holiday or not: Can Direct Payments be used for short breaks?
The Disability Action Plan Explained
Mollie from The Traitors
Michael Owen: “I'd swap eyes with my son if I could”
Drugs Shortage: Why Can’t I Get My Tablets?
What’s the BSL sign for ‘Throuple’?
'I've lost thousands because of my ADHD'
Best of Access All 2023
The Minister Before Christmas
Climate Change: As seen by disabled people in peril
The musical instrument you can play with your fingers, legs or eyes
My first year as a disabled astronaut
Who in the Whoniverse is Ruth Madeley?
The Harry Potter stuntman on his life-changing accident
Power to the (Disabled) People
Why vision impaired people struggle to pay by touchscreens
Disability Hate Crime: What’s really going on?
Minister for Disabled People talks to Access All
How do wheelchair users weigh themselves?
Are disabled people forgotten in climate disaster plans?
Disability charity takes 'murderous' swipe at government
‘My worry is my care will be cut and I will end up in a care home’
Robot guide dogs to help blind people
Disability benefits: How they could change
Gail Porter: 'Has anyone here been sectioned?'
‘I know what madness is, and this is the good kind’
Interview Special: Victoria Canal and Tommy Jessop
After the honeymoon
‘You’ve been ablesplained!’
One disabled air passenger, two tickets
The sea shanty star and anxiety attacks
‘I’m just a nerd living in a care home in North Yorkshire’
Ellie Simmonds: 'Who actually am I?'
‘Lewis Capaldi has done so much for the Tourette’s community’
Rose Ayling-Ellis: ‘We all need the feeling of belonging somewhere’
Festivals: 'It was just a complete nightmare from start to finish"
It’s in your Best Interests to listen to this
‘It was petrifying’: The family left on the side of the M1
Life's an accessible beach
‘I hit the fire alarm and evacuated the airport’
The Lost Boy
‘There weren't any ramps back in 1953’
The disabled woman who hired a sex worker
Strike a pose
Magic money
Is ChatGPT a disability ally?
'I haven't had a door on my bathroom for years'
TV’s Sophie Morgan’s “rage” over Blue Badge car theft
What’s happening with disability benefits?
Goodbye Judy, and thank you
Strictly's Amy Dowden: "I was seen as a risk"
Comedian Rosie Jones on imposter syndrome and ableism
When Access All took over Newscast
ADHD and the trend of diagnosis by TikTok
'Wonderstruck': The author who learned to read again
Disabled people are up, carers are down
GP: 'The whole NHS now is a big bin-fire'
The people who train their own guide dogs
Access All Christmas Special - Best Bits of 2022
Access All Christmas Special – The Governess Anne Hegerty
Mental health: The festive survival guide
Look who’s audio describing you
The mystery of the missing disability minister… solved!
One giant leap for disabled people?
What's in the Autumn Statement for disabled people?
Ellie Simmonds: “Strictly gave me confidence”
‘How Taylor Swift helps me to tell the time’
'I'm visually impaired, but cancer information wasn't accessible'
“People have turned off their fridges to save money”
From three carers to none
The mystery of the missing disability minister
Anne Hegerty: ‘Quizzing is easy, household tasks are the hard bit’
The battle for BSL
Family of six share a one-bed flat while new house is made accessible
'Wet wipes and dry shampoo get you a long way'
‘Half my income goes on energy bills’
The summer catch-up
The integrated games
Locked away in Ukraine’s orphanages
'My leg amputation was the best day of my life'
‘I was stuck in my flat for 12 days in the searing heat’
Staying cool in heatwave hell
The actress and the stolen photos
'Dad had to carry me up stairs to the LGBT party'
Hitting the mosh pit in my wheelchair
"100 miles from home, no one could visit me”
Wobbling up that hill
Escape plan
"It's happened again" - Frank Gardner left on a plane
'I was scared the guide dog would be electrocuted by the live wire'
Being gay and autistic at Eurovision
‘I used a hairdryer to warm my daughter’s feet’
Ukraine War: 'I think of my wheelchair more than myself now'
The Power of Snow
The lowdown on being disabled in China
‘I often get sepsis, if I get Covid my days are numbered’
Do accessible sex toys exist?
Kate and Holly: Covid finally strikes after all that shielding
Kate and Holly: Covid hits after two years of shielding
Mentally Interesting: The Myth of the Strong Black Woman
Mentally Interesting: What loneliness is
Mentally Interesting: Anxiety or heart attack?
Mentally Interesting: 'Something to take care of'
Merry Ouchmas: The festive special 2021
Little Miss Burden
'It was magical' - the first disabled crew to fly in zero-gravity
What’s climate change got to do with disability?
Mentally Interesting: Bananas for mental wellbeing?
'We found our first Paralympian at the supermarket'
‘I had a complete breakdown at the track’
The family taking rivalry to a new level in Tokyo
Tokyo twice: A gold medal in wheelchair what?
The lowdown on being disabled in Japan
‘A love letter to people with disabilities’
“I backed into the wall at 200mph”
How do you make the Love Island villa accessible?
'I've lost all of the independence I worked so hard for'
‘My harassment got worse when I picked up my white cane’
Do we really want to start hugging again?
Mentally Interesting: ‘I don’t get a holiday from myself’
‘I was told I was a curse on my family’
‘I wasn’t allowed to look out of the window’
Mentally Interesting: I couldn’t hold my baby
Do we get a 'lockdown dog' to help our disabled child?
‘Friendly fire’ in my brain led to me being wrongly sectioned
‘I really wanted to give Mum and Dad a hug – it was awkward’
Lockdown: The anniversary no one wanted
Did I think of myself as gay and disabled 10 years ago?
'We adopted a disabled child during the pandemic'
'Dating & Disability - how to navigate the agencies'
'The school phoned, Scout's hurt'
Mentally Interesting: My grief
'There's a difference between home-schooling and emergency education'
Let’s add partner guilt to disability lockdown woes
'I didn’t even know what bisexual was'
‘I’m having a rest in the car, with no one screaming my name’
The day of the jab
Mentally Interesting: The bum-kicking machine
I sat outside Gran's funeral
'Waiting for the vaccine is like waiting on a kidney'
Katie and Harvey Price on growing up and moving out
Being disabled in the third lockdown
The Mental Health Act and Me
Parenting in a pandemic, with a learning disability
Mentally interesting: Loss
The Ouch Quizmas Special 2020
‘I need to remind myself to talk to people’
‘Well Defined Chaos’
The DDA and Me
CripTales: Thunderbox
CripTales: The Real Deal
CripTales: Audition
'I was howling with pain and there was blood everywhere'
‘I couldn’t hear my voice’
There’s Covid On Campus
‘There’s no right way to be a student’
‘I miss the office banter’
'Remember when we were stockpiling toilet roll'
'It is possible to be tired and in pain and happy at the same time'
The schoolgirl who broke her neck and became a racing driver
'Did anyone else miss sex during chemo?'
Shielding Limbo
Maskcast: “If I’m struggling, be kind”
'My house became a bit like rehab’
Alex Brooker: ‘I’m the most comfortable I’ve ever been with my disability’
A&E in lockdown: Scout fractures her arm
‘Imagine that, disabled and black!’
A blood test out of the car window
Meet the 'Vulnerables': Jamie Hale
'Naughty Robot!'
‘When the pandemic started, my panic attacks stopped’
Meet the 'Vulnerables': Baroness Jane Campbell
'I can't believe we're arguing about this!'
When Cabin Fever met 1800 Seconds on Autism
'We should all be allowed to say "this is really hard"'
‘I returned to nursing the day the pandemic was declared’
'I feel a lot of pressure to keep Holly alive'
'I hope they'll make masks with cut-outs for lips'
"It would be tempting fate to pack a hospital bag"
'Me and the guide dog went into lockdown so I adopted a cat'
'We're all a bit wonky'
Styling out coronavirus with diabetes and tie-dye
'Decontaminating our cans of beans one by one'
"We're temporarily cancelling your career"
'Suddenly you get this text...'
Coronavirus has its red letter day
Kate and Holly’s isolation diary
Welcome to The Cabin Fever Podcast
Disabled and out of money in North Korea
‘We accidentally posted a video about diabetes, and it went viral’
The new boy on Sex Education and the magician with OCD
Liz Carr: Silent Witness star reveals film role
How not to tell someone they have Parkinson's
Tom, The Greatest Dancer and cystic fibrosis
"I was expecting mediocrity ... you blew me away"
Getting a fashion fix as a disabled model
Adult women don't want 'Daddy's little princess' written on their T-shirts
'I have exploding head syndrome'
How brave and powerful are you?
The secret life of a teenager with MS
Why fat guide dogs can be taken away
Jellyballs (Storytelling live part 2)
This love story between two comedians with cerebral palsy will melt your heart
Dear Janine - Please can I borrow your nipples?
Dear Mr Dead Head
The boffins who solve disability problems
Living while dying
Trust me, I’m a disabled doctor
'We bought a pub for our 12-year-old son'
The rising stars of Eurovision who pulled out of the final
The challenge of being a teacher with Tourette's
'I realised not everyone has to be a Paralympian'
What’s the beef with McDonald’s paper straws?
Sex, with these hips?
The artist who believes he’s a zombie
Deaf Poets Society (Repeat)
This disabled comedian is a Jerk
The gig emergency that made music accessible
Disabled People Are Hot
My daughter has my disability and that’s OK
Why the hashtag #ThingsDisabledPeopleKnow went viral
'I will drop you in awkwardness'
‘I slid down the banisters and fell on my head’
Christmas repeat: The date saboteur and the make-up store terror
Christmas repeat: Passionately kissing your ‘mum’ to prove a point
The dilemmas of Quizmas
'I pushed Kelly Fletcher off the stool'
Stories about pooing in a bag
'Disabled people make the best entrepreneurs'
“We made conversation while my daughter licked the pavement”
Bake Off Briony’s kitchen hacks and Kitch the rapper
What happens when the beat drops?
‘Be my friend because we’re both disabled mums’
'Alex Jones will kill me if I tell you...'
‘How a plan to reveal my new boyfriend ended with a fractured spine’
'You can't go there, you're disabled'
Making sign language more beautiful
"Echoes put me off": How blind people choose a new home
The date saboteur and the make-up store terror
The date saboteur and the make-up store terror
Passionately kissing your 'mum' to prove a point
My son jammed his leg in a wheelchair
OCD: It's not just about washing your hands
How not to teach your girlfriend about being deaf (Repeat)
The bike crash which made me forget English
If the shoe fits...
Archbishop on daughters, disability and mental health
'Do we drown or rocket to the surface?'
'My Doctor refused to treat me if I went for gold'
The disabled comedian who turned down Britain's Got Talent
Tell your story at Edinburgh Fringe
Tell your story at Edinburgh Fringe
How do you learn trapeze if you’re blind?
Bibliotherapy: A novel take on mental health
Turning to snow to meet my mother
Life in the dark shadow of Mini-Me
From Russian orphan to Team USA
Hellblade: Psychosis story ‘mirrored mine’
Electronic voices: How Hawking let me talk too
Ouch takeover: Inspirational speakers
Off-piste at the Paras #9: Ghost town
Off-piste at the paras #8: Scott Meenagh: Losing my legs in Afghanistan was "a bad day at work"
Off-piste at the paras #7: Ice-hockey
Back to school
Off-piste at the Paras #6: The fixers
Off-piste at the Paras #5: Snowboard Monday
Off-piste at the Paras #4: Snowboarder Ben Moore
Off-piste at the Paras #3: First day
Off-piste at the Paras #2: Opening ceremony
Off-piste at the Paras #1: We're here!
“It’s like PMS but a hundred times worse…..”
Grange Hill, Voodoo and chronic pain
Cooking up the Winter Paralympics
How I met my disabled partner
The guide dog with the dashcam strikes again
Love me, love my wheels?
I changed my life by moving online
Do you get caught in the Faff Zone?
Is it harder for disabled people to lose weight?
A game of Disability Dilemmas
Have you heard the one about....?
The Curious Case of Miss Fanny Fust
'Nothing feels real a third of the time'
Let's replace disability with letters like LGBT (repeat)
The Robyn, Jamie and Lion Show: Obsession
ME - The movie
'I knew that going deaf would kill me'
Who is Jared O'Mara?
Do blind people care about colour?
'I'm wearing a tight T-shirt so I know where I end'
Can 'sex robots' help disabled people?
Why I shouldn't meet others with cystic fibrosis
Gay and disabled
Behind bars with a mental illness
Love, sex and cotton buds (replay)
The woman who experiences pain as red and rectangular
Drunk people ask the most awkward questions
Storytelling Live: Tales of the Misunderstood
Rationing energy - and other chronic illness life hacks
Gin, sushi and disability
“I saw you on stage, you’re definitely bipolar”
What happens to my disabled son when I die?
Dr Hannah: 'I often get to emergencies first because of my speedy wheelchair'
Growing up with disabled parents
The only MP who wears a t-shirt in parliament
Alternatives to the job interview
Why one deaf man didn't vote until his 40s
When going blind is funny
To Switzerland or not
Deaf Poets Society
‘Is that all you’re having?’
'My brain injury turned me into a teenager'
Are people with learning difficulties allowed to vote?
Richard III: "A disabled guy gets cast as the disabled guy"
Let's talk about mental health ... but then what?
The love triangle which ended in a police cell
How not to teach your girlfriend about being deaf
My brother taught me how to laugh
Behind the scenes
From mental health meltdown to finding love
The man taught to have sex by lesbians
‘My date was derailed by dyspraxia’
I have a long-lasting relationship … with my psychologist
Sign language on the radio
‘I had six children to get pregnancy right’
I wash my clothes in fizzy pop
Making It Work
Retail Therapy
Not so Undercover Boss
The Kika Effect
Who is Doug Paulley?
Blind man's fog
"I can't say Kanye West"
Punk therapy
Living on the edge
'So boring!'
Happy 'disability day' everybody!
The power of suggestion
Blind mums and counting steps - repeat
Disabled hip-hop fight
Sisters together forever
Seizures and shopping
Read all about it
Coming Out
Pigs and the asylum
Facebook salad
How do blind people interpret emoji's? - Repeat
Concealing Disability
I Need to Sit Down
Jack Carroll: 'I'm not properly disabled'
The One-Legged Man Show
"You couldn't make it up"
Are puppets disabled?
Skydiving for benefits - archive
Bedside Manner
Diabetic like the PM
Access all Pokemon
Driverless and sightless
Funny people
Yoga after paralysis
Walking on stumps
Love, sex and cotton buds
"I love a bit of shock value"
'Me before euthanasia'
'My wheelchair makes me a human'
Training to use a guide dog isn't always a walk in the park
'What's for dinner?'
Access all areas
Hairy situations
Would you ditch your disability given the chance?
Would you buy chocolate if its label warned you how much exercise you'd need to burn it off?
10th anniversary show
Tales from the train
Vegetable, vegetable or vegetable?
Sex and money
On this special day
Fiction containing disabled characters - do you embrace them, or 'read 'em and weep'?
Your disability anniversary
'Charging the battery': coping with a disability and a mental illness
... like an LGBT for disability
Using chopsticks with your toes
A colouring book for blind people
Disabled mums and sign names
The questions kids ask
Would you live next door to a ‘handicapped’ person?
Stare at the bear in the chair
Ouch 'Christmas dinner' special
"You walk funny" - repeat
That white cane ban story
Tangles with trains
Choices and rights: The story of the Disability Discrimination Act
Are disability related Halloween costumes offensive?
How do blind people interpret emojis?
The disabled man who held a stranger's hand on a bus
Brothers, sisters and disability
I was not meant to be able-bodied
John Lennon mocking disabled people causes a stir
"You don't look disabled"
Inside Ouch – What is ‘normal’?
'Standing out' as a disabled foreigner in Japan
Blind mums and counting steps
Disabled models and security checks
Inside Ouch: Special Olympics and the inspiration question
Breaking Bad's RJ Mitte on showbiz and disability
Summer loving with a disability
Don't miss the thought bus
Tattoos and touching faces
Politics, prose and protest music
Aesthetics and prosthetics
Flying guide dogs
Losing a leg, and being mugged
Not 'tears of a clown'
Wear your label
New disability minister and angry notes on cars
Gigging, stuttering, men's mental health
Not disabled in a parallel universe
Who will buy me a wheelchair?
"You walk funny"
talk show: Driving, prison, being a man
#GiveBenAJob
Inside Ouch: Disability, douze points
Inside Ouch: IS release video featuring two deaf fighters
Talk Show: Stump art, disabled models, black canes
Inside Ouch: Who can use accessible loos?
Oscars, acting and singing on the tube
Blind fashion, role models and jobs
talk show 114: Christmas quiz
show 113: Did you say ‘inspiration porn’?
show 112: Green juice vs bacon rolls
show 111: Religion and politics
show 110: Being mean
show 109: Tetra belly
show 108: Adopt an activist
show 107: Mental vacuum
show 106: The care home crusader
show 105: Biswas not Tiswas
show 104: Purple people
show 103: Bah humbug
show 102: Not The Truman Show
show 101: Disability 'mate' crime
show 100: Sex and relationships special
show 99: Hops and halos
show 98: The new girl
show 97: Can disabled people be powerful?
Ouch! show 96: Sledge hockey, stick men and welfare
Ouch! show 95: Things that make you go ouch!
Ouch! show 94: Sex workers, Radio One MS reveal and Special Olympics
Ouch! show 93: What cochlear implants hear...
Ouch! talk show 92: Staying stylish, blind busking
Ouch! #91, 12 Nov 12: Taser, tablets, travel
Ouch! #90: Punk, tics and Paralympics
Ouch! disability talk show #89: Paralympics-a-go-go
Ouch! #88: Paralympic dreams and 'Stupid people'
Ouch! #87: Planning holidays, and military rehab
Ouch! #86: Becky from Glee, Paralympics president, exams
Ouch! disability talk show #85: Boccia, breakdance, TV
Talk Show 84: Chocolate Dyslexic Paralympic
Ouch! podcast extra: Paralympian Lee Pearson
Talk Show 83: Revving up with Lewis Hamilton's disabled brother
Ouch! Podcast Extra: would you date a disabled person?
Ouch! Talk Show 82: Ruby Wax finds her people
Ouch! Talk Show 81: Gill Hicks, Francesca Martinez and Toby Mildon look forward to 2012
Ouch! Talk Show 80: Christmas Quiz
Ouch! Talk Show 79: Warwick Davis likes caravans
Ouch! Talk Show 78: Did he just say 'crip'?
Ouch! Podcast Extra: Mat Fraser in Japan
Ouch! Talk Show 77: Japan, mental health in pictures, Paralympics
Ouch! Talk Show 76: What to watch at the Paralympics, disabled twins, life changing injuri
Ouch! Talk Show 75: say it again... and again
Ouch! Talk Show 74: Laurence Clark is a health hazard
Ouch! Talk Show 73: Jazz and Bev from Small Teen Bigger World
Ouch! Talk Show 72: social media and what's wheelchair tennis?
Talk Show 71: pizza champs and Glastonbury
Ouch! Talk Show #70: difficult job choices, disability documentaries, Captain Angelo
Ouch! Talk show 69: first dates and learning disabled radio
Talk Show 68: Funny, not funny
Talk Show 67: going back in time, parking, music
Talk Show 66: the young ones
Ouch! Talk Show 23 Feb 11: Sibling rivalry
Talk Show 64: Twisted Valentine.
Talk Show #63: are you a brown footer?
Talk Show 62, January 2011: health & fitness
Talk Show 61, Dec 2010: Cuts, protests and predictions
Ouch! Talk Show 60: early Dec 2010 - Christmas lunch, games and a play
Ouch! Talk Show 59, mid Nov 2010: news, the fish police
Ouch!Talk Show 58 - early November 2010
Ouch!: Talk Show 57, mid October 2010
Ouch! Talk Show 56 - 1 of 2 shows this October
Ouch! Talk Show, Sep 2010: Reasons to be cheerful
Ouch! Talk Show #54 - August 2010
Ouch! Talk Show 53 - July 2010
Ouch! Talk Show 52 - June 2010
Ouch! Talk Show 51 - May 2010
Ouch! Talk Show 50 - April 2010
Ouch! talk show - March 2010
talk show - February 2010
talk show - January 2010
Talk Show - December 2009
Talk Show - November 2009
Talk Show - October 2009
Podcast 43 02 Sep 09
Podcast 42 06 Aug 09
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Podcast 37 05 Mar 09
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Podcast 35 09 Jan 09
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Podcast 33 06 Nov 08
Podcast 32 07 Oct 08
Podcast 31 11 Sep 08
Podcast 30 07 Aug 08
Podcast 29 03 Jul 08
Podcast 28 05 Jun 08
Podcast 27 08 May 08
Podcast 26 03 Apr 08
Podcast 25 06 Mar 08
Podcast 24, Feb 08
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