The Download: Chasing disabled customers and bad news from the workplace
Presenter Paul Carter is joined by business coach Robin Hindle-Fisher and disability consultant Phil Friend. They discuss unexpected positiv...
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The Download Head to Head: Baroness Jane Campbell
In the latest conversation in our Head-To-Head podcast series, Ian Macrae meets Baroness Campbell of Surbiton. She talks about her suburban...
The Download: Feminism, self-definition and life after the Paralympics
Lawyer Raquel Siganporia, disability consultant Maria Zedda and actor, writer and feminist Athena Stevens join Paul Carter. They discuss def...
The Download: Head to Head - Julie Rogers
Kicking off Disability Now's Paralympic season is this interview with T42 sprinter Julie Rogers. At 17 she's competing in the 100m in Rio bu...
The Download: Air travel, employment and poetry
Ian Macrae sits in for regular host Paul Carter and is joined by guests Mik Scarlet, Jane Hatton and performance poet Callum Brazzo who pres...
The Download: PAs, inspiration and disability arts
Guests Lisa Egan, David Hevey and Michael McGrath join presenter Paul Carter to discuss problems with paying PAs redundancy, the recently la...
The Download: Head to Head - Frank Gardner
The guest on this epsiode of The Download: Head to Head, the extended interview sereis from Disability Now, is Frank Gardner, Security Corre...
The Download: NLW, secret shopping, Me Before You
In this episode of The Download from Disability Now Paul Carter talks to entrepreneur and consultant Geoff Adams-Spink and writer and activi...
The Download: LGBT, The Archers, and de-cluttering
In this edition of Disability Now's discussion show The Download, we find out what the current hot storyline in Radio 4's The Archers has to...
The Download Head to Head: Evelyn Glennie
At the age of 6 Evelyn Glennie contracted mumps which affected her hearing. From then on she gradually became increasingly deaf. But by the...
The Download: Head to Head - Peter Beresford
Ahead of the publication of his new book, All Our Welfare Professor Peter Beresford talks to Ian Macrae about his childhood, racial identity...
The Download: Cuts, hotels and housing
For this edition of The Download, Disability Now's topical and lively discussion show, presenter Paul Carter is joined by Roger Lewis of Dis...
The Download: Head to head - Genevieve Barr
Deaf actor Genevieve Barr was catapulted into public notice in 2011 when she landed a major role in BBC1 prime time drama series The Silence...
The Download: Bionics Special
We talk bionics in this special of The Download: can they change the lives of disabled people? Are they a threat to our disability identity?...
The Download: Head to Head - Laurence Clark
Comedian Laurence Clark talks to Ian Macrae in Disability Now's interview show. He discusses school days, comedy influences, an encounter wi...
The Download - PIPs, Fuel Poverty and Power Lists
Paul Carter is joined by Guests Sue Bott of Disability Rights UK, Editor of Disability Now Ian Macrae and writer, critic and activist Mike S...
The Download Head to Head: Hannah Cockroft
Paul Carter chats with multiple Paralympic, World and European gold medallist about her journey from frustrated teenager to international st...
The Download: Academia, activism and social media
Paul Carter is joined by guests Professor Peter Beresford, Kyle Jordan and Grace Wong as for fun and engaging discussion of the latest disab...
The Download: Disability identity, TV seasons and questions, questions...
Paul Carter is joined by Fran Macilvey, Richard Butchins and Zara Todd for more insightful and intelligent disability discourse.
The Download: Wheelchair services, mental health and disability identity
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