Crippled stomp

On this week's episode we talk with Alex Caceres,

a UFC fighter ranked in the top 15 in the world. We talk about his philosophy on life and much, much more !

The new and improved intro and outro music, is all original and was created by your host Shabaaz Mohammed and Darren Adcock, using a synthesiser built by him !!!

 

On this episode we talk to Sarah Dauncey about her advntures in China and much more besides. Sarah is a Professor of Chinese Society and Disability at the University of Nottingham. She has been studying and visiting China for over 30 years and has written on a wide range of topics related to Chinese society, culture, disability and para-sport. Her latest book Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2020) explores the ways in which disability has been understood in China from the 20^th century onwards. Edited by Darren Adcock.

On this episode we spoke to Mark Harrison, a couple of days before the budget announcement at the end of 2022.

Mark has been part of the Disability movement since the mid-1990s.  He was a member and chair of the British Council of Disabled People’s (BCODP) international committee for over a decade.  Mark was Chief Executive Officer of Equal Lives, formerly Norfolk Coalition of Disabled People (NCODP) 2009 - 2018.

He was director of Social Action research centres in the Universities of Nottingham, DeMontfort and East Anglia from 1989 – 2008.

Mark is Chair of Norfolk Against Universal Credit (NAUC) and a member of DPAC Norfolk.  He is currently a member of the Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA) Steering Group – representing disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) in England.

Mark is a senior research fellow in social action at the University of Suffolk.

This week we talk with Ghada Mansi about living and working in Gaza. Special shout out to Mohammed Ghalayini for facilitating the podcast with intermittent translation.

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"I am an engineer living in Deir El Balah town in Gaza, Palestine. I oversee the installation of new water purification units for schools through Gaza, regularly checking the water quality at each school, and following up any necessary maintenance and repairs. I also cofounded the Sketch Engineering Company, which aims to use engineering to improve life for the local community by solving some of the problems of everyday life under occupation and siege in Gaza."

This week we chat with Mark Simpson who is a songwriter, producer, composer and podcaster from Salford 

He has written music for stage & screen  has produced several albums of many genres and has won a number of awards for his Theatre Scores. His band, The Happy Soul have released three critically acclaimed albums and support Church of the Cosmic Skull at Manchester Academy on May 27th. 

 

www.thehappysoulband.com 

www.songcraftrecordings.com

 

 

This week, we chat to Ian Barber.

 

Ian Barber is a Content Editor at ITV Granada Reports, where he regularly produces the North West's 6pm regional news programme. 

 

Since joining ITV in 2013, Ian has worked in newsrooms right across the country, and has worked as an on-screen reporter, a producer, news editor, planner and more. 

 

At Granada Reports, Ian chairs the regional ITV News Diversity Panel, which strives to make ITV programming more inclusive. Away from work, Ian has a long history in music. He's played in bands for almost 20 years, and has toured extensively across the UK and Europe. And it was after a first foray into the music press that Ian became interested in a career in journalism. 

For this episode we've got actor Colin Connor in the house to talk about life as an actor for over 3 and a half decades and much more besides. 

 

You can find more about Colin at https://www.spotlight.com/2211-8948-4116

 

For the first show of the year, we speak to actor Neil Bell about life as an actor and also talk to him about some of the acclaimed directors that he has worked with over the years.

 

Neil has been a professional actor for 22 years and comes from a town called Failsworth just outside Manchester UK.

He has played many roles on camera and in the theatre. Upcoming work includes the feature film Moment of Grace and the BBC drama Woody. Both due out this year.

This week we talked to Miriam Avery about how she found herself in A&E doing mental health nursing in the middle of a pandemic.

 

Miriams bio:

I am a mental health nurse from Manchester, currently working in the central A&E department assessing the mental health needs of patients who present there.  Since qualifying as a nurse in 2013 I have also worked in a children's eating disorder service, completed a master's degree in clinical research, and have worked on many different research projects including for covid treatments. I am really interested in the intersection between mental and physical health care and am due to start a PhD next year focused on improving services which bring these two things together for young people. When not at work in a bid to look after my own mental health I can sometimes be found Djing around Manchester or playing instruments very badly, as well as trying to get tough enough to do winter wild swimming!!

 

I am currently working on recruiting participants for a trial of a new OCD medication, due to open February 2022. If you live in Manchester (UK), are diagnosed with OCD, and would be interested in learning more about this then please email ocdtrial@gmmh.nhs.uk. 

 

For other UK sites: https://researchforyou.co.uk/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-study/

For US and Europe: https://www.ocdtrial.org/

This week we chat with Helen Rowlands. Helen is a Northwich-based disability rights campaigner. She is currently working with Inclusion London, Disabled People Against Cuts, and grassroots campaign groups across England campaigning for an end to social care charging in England, and the adoption by political parties of social care commitments that reframe ''care'' as the right to independent living, grounded in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

 

Helen's campaigning work as a town councillor on lack of rail network access, and with local residents with aphasia and cognitive and mobility impairment following stroke, led her to the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, who trained Helen in the social model of disability. Discussions with GMCDP officers about the success of the Greater Manchester Mayor's Disabled People's Panel led Helen to  co-found the Cheshire Disabled People's Panel, which launched in 2021. 

 

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