Crippled stomp

On this episode we talk to Bernard Leach, disability equality campaigner and academic.

We discuss the pros and cons of the paralympic movement and his role in getting the South African paralympic team banned from the games.

On this episode I chat with Conrad Bower, Editor and co-founder of The Meteor. www.themeteor.org

Reporting interests include social justice, the environment, and human rights. A staunch advocate for the scientific method and rational debate for understanding the world - he believes only greater public understanding and engagement in the problems that face us all can produce progressive societies, from the local to the global, that can combat the crises we face.

This week we chat to Gayan.

Gayan is a barrister and writer. In 2020 he was a founding member of Journals of a Pandemic, a collective writing project gathering personal impressions and experiences of life amidst the pandemic. 

https://www.journalsofapandemic.org/

https://wellcomecollection.org/

In this weeks episode we spoke with Becca Harrison, a film and TV critic and an academic.

She writes about topics ranging from feminism and the onscreen representation of women to blockbuster movies like Star Wars. Her career includes work for Sight & Sound, Screen Queens, the BBC and others. 

You can find Becca's website at http://www.writingonreels.uk/about.html

 

On this episode we chat with freelance writer and journalist Philippa Willitts about her life as a journalist and also her disability activism.

 

You can find Philippa's website at http://www.philippawrites.co.uk/  and also read her latest article at https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/firshill-rise-sheffields-learning-disability-community-speaks-up-against-service-failings

 

This week we chat with Emmy Kelly, who is the ShieldUs Northern Ireland representative and campaign manager. https://shieldus.org.uk/

 

Hi everyone, I am CEV (Clinically Extremely Vulnerable) and have been shielding since March 2020 and will be for the foreseeable future. Both my boys have special educational needs and have had remote learning since March. My youngest son is CV possibly CEV depending on how well his health is managed and my whole family are shielding together. I have been a health advocate and occasional journalist for 10 years mainly in the rare disease world. I am Northern Ireland Rep and Campaign Manager for ShieldUs.

So I just wanted to say a proper hello to you all, if I can help at all please reach out, please don't ever feel alone! We are all in this together X

On this episode we speak to autistic author N.E. McMorran. Nema is the author of the new award winning neurodivergent children’s book ‘MOOJAG and the AUTICODE SECRET’, and the founder of ‘SPONDYLUX PRESS’ (https://spondyluxpress.com)—an inclusive London based independent publisher run by autistic professionals to promote neurodiversity, sustainability and social change. You can find Nema's website at http://www.moojag.com/

 

On this episode we speak to Joe Whitakker. 

Joe is an executive officer on the board of The Alliance for Inclusive Education - ALLFIE (https://www.allfie.org.uk/) is a powerful vehicle to hear different voices, to channel into campaigns for change.

ALLFIE's key principles focus on human rights as central to an inclusive society for ALL disabled people.
In addition Joe has been connected to GMCDP for 30 years and on the exec for five years.

On this episode I get to talk with my long-time friend Nuradin Abdi. We talked about racism in the UK today and his new youtube channel United Real Therapy - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGBdQq8UDaxvRCb5qo8bhAQ-  

Nuradin describes himself as a product of south-central Manchester, an anti racist activist who is interested in arts, culture mental health and sports.

On this episode we talk to Stephen Sunderland about his surrealist novel that he is currently working on "The Cinema Beneath the Lake" and surrealism more generally and its relevance today.

 

Stephen Sunderland lectures in Scriptwriting for TV and Film at the University of Salford. He is currently in his final year of a PhD by Practice funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council where he is writing an experimental surrealist novel, The Cinema Beneath the Lake. He’s the writer of three original dramas broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and was a Finalist in the BAFTA-Rocliffe New Writers programme for Children’s Media in 2016