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Preparing for the Paralympics with sweat Hoovers and heat chambers
Paralympics 2024: Where do you keep your medal?
The first in a series of special episodes recorded at the Paralympic Games in Paris
Paralympics 2024: The gold edition
The second in a series of special episodes recorded at the Paralympic Games in Paris
Paralympics 2024: The Prosthesis Menders
The final part in a series of special episodes recorded at the Paralympic Games in Paris.
Alison Lapper on life, art, parenting and grief
Artist Alison Lapper reflects on her life - and the life of the son she lost.
The 40-year-olds who are in bed by 5pm
Why does the quality of life for some people with learning disabilities decline at 40?
Why did 2,000 Essex mental health patients die?
Relatives speak at inquiry into mental health patient deaths in Essex
Inside MI5 with an autistic intelligence officer
A rare insight into the working life of an autistic MI5 intelligence officer
LGBTQ+ eating disorders on Heartstopper and Tom Gates author, Liz Pichon
Heartstopper and LGBTQ+ eating disorders plus Tom Gates author, Liz Pichon
‘I just want a job’: The challenge facing young disabled go-getters
Why is the transition from education to work so hard for young disabled people?
Gareth Gates and Ed Balls on stammering
Pop Idol star Gareth Gates and ex-politician Ed Balls on navigating life with a stammer
What does Rachel Reeves' Budget mean for disabled people?
The Budget is done and dusted and the US elections about to start.
Paul Whitehouse and Dr Mine Conkbayir on ADHD
Dr Mine Conkbayir and her comedy actor husband Paul Whitehouse on ADHD
Coalition of 350 disability organisations against Assisted Dying Bill
More than 350 disabled organisations form a coalition against the Assisted Dying Bill
“Our voices need to be heard” - disabled witnesses at the Covid inquiry
Disabled people give testimony in phase three of the Covid inquiry
Mental health campaigners want government to give up "unhealthy benefit war rhetoric"
Mental health campaigners fear strategy will focus on "unhealthy benefit war rhetoric".
New kids’ toys launched to help people with hidden disabilities
Toy figures wearing lanyards could help children understand hidden disabilities
Paralympian James Brown: My disability needs were denied in prison
Paralympian protestor: I won compensation after my access needs were denied to me in jail
Strictly winner Chris McCausland: “It was a hell of a ride”
Blind Strictly star Chris McCausland on dancing, conquering self-doubt and his new film
2024’s Disability highlights
Disabled people share their highlights of the year
What will 2025 bring for disabled people?
A look at the year ahead for disabled people and mental health service s
Disabled film director: ‘It was like I was invisible’
Director Owen Tooth on his switch from film sets to EastEnders
The parents losing hope over SEND system
We hear from a family who have been forced into debt over their children's SEND needs
Disabled and living through the California wildfires: “You live on edge”
Facing the California wildfires when you’re disabled and marking Holocaust Memorial Day
People diagnosed with ADHD "dying younger"
A British study finds women diagnosed with ADHD die nine years sooner.
‘Time is the enemy’ for actor playing Richard III
Michael Patrick on winning an award for playing Richard III with motor neurone disease
The teen who won a legal fight for a BSL interpreter in class
The 16-year-old whose right to a BSL interpreter was recognised by a Scottish tribunal
Para-bobsleigh champ: ‘Rollercoasters have become boring’
Corie Mapp on winning gold and courting risk
Disabled life in Ukraine after three years of war
We catch-up with Oleksii and his mum Raisa
The novelist who changed the world with her foot
Polly Crosby talks about being the first baby with a positive CF heel prick test
“I lost my benefits at 16 for saying I could cook”
Thousands of teen claimants lose benefits at 16, BBC data find
