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.

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Disability minister on controversial benefit cuts
Disability minister Sir Stephen Timms on £5bn planned benefit cuts
07 Apr 2025,14 mins
MP John McDonnell’s ‘shock and anger’ at benefit cuts
'I was really shocked': MP John McDonnell on plans for benefit cuts
02 Apr 2025,35 mins
'I used to hear tormenting voices day in, day out'
Paranoid schizophrenia: 'I used to hear tormenting voices day in, day out'
26 Mar 2025,39 mins
Amputee F3 racer Billy Monger: "You think nothing serious will happen to you"
Formula 3 racer Billy Monger looks back on the crash that changed his life
19 Mar 2025,30 mins
Benefits reforms: Emergency episode
How will benefits reforms affect disabled claimants?
18 Mar 2025,21 mins
“I lost my benefits at 16 for saying I could cook”
Thousands of teen claimants lose benefits at 16, BBC data find
12 Mar 2025,28 mins
The novelist who changed the world with her foot
Polly Crosby talks about being the first baby with a positive CF heel prick test
06 Mar 2025,33 mins
Disabled life in Ukraine after three years of war
We catch-up with Oleksii and his mum Raisa
26 Feb 2025,31 mins
Para-bobsleigh champ: ‘Rollercoasters have become boring’
Corie Mapp on winning gold and courting risk
19 Feb 2025,29 mins
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
12 Feb 2025,27 mins
‘Time is the enemy’ for actor playing Richard III
Michael Patrick on winning an award for playing Richard III with motor neurone disease
05 Feb 2025,28 mins
People diagnosed with ADHD "dying younger"
A British study finds women diagnosed with ADHD die nine years sooner.
29 Jan 2025,25 mins
Disabled and living through the California wildfires: “You live on edge”
Facing the California wildfires when you’re disabled and marking Holocaust Memorial Day
22 Jan 2025,34 mins
The parents losing hope over SEND system
We hear from a family who have been forced into debt over their children's SEND needs
15 Jan 2025,29 mins
Disabled film director: ‘It was like I was invisible’
Director Owen Tooth on his switch from film sets to EastEnders
08 Jan 2025,29 mins
What will 2025 bring for disabled people?
A look at the year ahead for disabled people and mental health service users
01 Jan 2025,33 mins
2024’s Disability highlights
Disabled people share their highlights of the year
25 Dec 2024,37 mins
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
18 Dec 2024,31 mins
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
11 Dec 2024,40 mins
New kids’ toys launched to help people with hidden disabilities
Toy figures wearing lanyards could help children understand hidden disabilities
04 Dec 2024,25 mins
Mental health campaigners want government to give up "unhealthy benefit war rhetoric"
Mental health campaigners fear strategy will focus on "unhealthy benefit war rhetoric".
27 Nov 2024,37 mins
“Our voices need to be heard” - disabled witnesses at the Covid inquiry
Disabled people give testimony in phase three of the Covid inquiry
20 Nov 2024,25 mins
Coalition of 350 disability organisations against Assisted Dying Bill
More than 350 disabled organisations form a coalition against the Assisted Dying Bill
13 Nov 2024,29 mins
Paul Whitehouse and Dr Mine Conkbayir on ADHD
Dr Mine Conkbayir and her comedy actor husband Paul Whitehouse on ADHD
06 Nov 2024,23 mins
What does Rachel Reeves' Budget mean for disabled people?
The Budget is done and dusted and the US elections about to start.
30 Oct 2024,26 mins
Gareth Gates and Ed Balls on stammering
Pop Idol star Gareth Gates and ex-politician Ed Balls on navigating life with a stammer
21 Oct 2024,25 mins
‘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?
15 Oct 2024,33 mins
LGBTQ+ eating disorders on Heartstopper and Tom Gates author, Liz Pichon
Heartstopper and LGBTQ+ eating disorders plus Tom Gates author, Liz Pichon
09 Oct 2024,27 mins
Inside MI5 with an autistic intelligence officer
A rare insight into the working life of an autistic MI5 intelligence officer
01 Oct 2024,24 mins
Why did 2,000 Essex mental health patients die?
Relatives speak at inquiry into mental health patient deaths in Essex
25 Sep 2024,34 mins