Access All: Disability News and Mental Health

The disability protest group Direct Action Network (DAN) is 25 years old. One of its founders talks to us about the campaigns which brought it fame - and notoriety - in the 1990s. Plus, we meet the single disabled woman who, despite relying on personal assistants herself, has recently adopted a 15-month-old disabled child. Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan present.

Meet The Vacuum Cleaner, also known as artist and activist James Leadbitter. He invites you to help him design the perfect asylum and talks about the time he wrote his own mental health act then sectioned himself under it. Also: Mik Scarlet joins us for topical chat, a quiz, and three more citizen correspondents bring you their disability news. Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan present.

The man in his 30s who lives in a care home and takes companies to task for disability discrimination. Why do some disabled people hate being called inspirational? Also, cooking with no sight, and why might you choose an assistance monkey over a dog? Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan present.

Our citizen journalists report on animals and cures. Meet the student whose path altered when she became disabled in the first week of her Dance A-level. Also, the alternative politics of Asperger comedian Don Biswas and the pending trial of paralympian Oscar Pistorius. Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan present.

Heather Mills is out of the Winter Paralympics. Are The Undatables really undatable? What do you do when your care role ends? And why do we say the disability pound is purple? Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan present

On this month's show: Three real life Grinches, Paralympian Hannah Cockroft talks about wheelchair dancing on Strictly, and are disabled people in need of better sex education?

Video-blogger Jonny says being open is good, the disability autobiography quiz and the future access technology that's already here. With Rob Crossan.

The Last Leg's Alex Brooker on how he almost became a Paralympian himself. That great disability perk, queue-jumping at Disney, is on the way out. And why disability hate crime experts would like official figures to rise before they hopefully fall. Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan present.

How does a young man go about losing his virginity when his arms and legs don't work? What's it like to be both gay and disabled? And is falling in love with your careworker ever a good thing? Disabled panelists Asta, Daryl and Kirsty take a tough conversation to the next level in our sex and relationships special. Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan present.

Ever heard of the invalid stout sold a hundred years ago to cure disability? Also, the man who says volunteering saved his life after a spell in hospital. And are disabled comedians duty bound to make light of their disabilities? With Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan.

This month: Cerebal palsy beer brings freshness to disability awareness. Sally Gardner, dyslexic author of Maggot Moon, talks about how she hates the word disability. Plus sex, relationships and safety for girls on the autistic spectrum. With Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan.

This month: The online list of disabled people with influence, good and bad graduation ceremony memories, an interview with paralysed fundraiser Claire Lomas and, on Liz Carr's last show, we hear some of her best bits.

We discuss how benefit cuts could affect the economy, how campaigning on social media can be unhealthy as well as positive and how to communicate by message cards if you fall over or don't want to talk. Also, what is Sledge Hockey? - our basic guide to the Winter Paralympics now one year away. Liz Carr and Rob Crossan present.

In this show the chat ranges from Nazi anti-disability propaganda to benefit reform and the recent "disabled children should be put down" comments from a councillor. Features The Comedians with Disabilities Act, artist Liz Crow and Glasgow mum Laura Miller. liz Carr and Rob Crossan present.

Was it tough for DJ Scott Mills's sidekick, Beccy, to reveal to Radio One listeners that she has MS? Are Special Olympics and Deaflympics overshadowed by Paralympic sport? And with The Sessions film and "brothel" therapy in the news, is disability and sex no longer taboo? Liz Carr and Rob Crossan present another lively show.

This month: Is it helpful when celebs reveal they have mental health difficulties? Do you find it humiliating to receive disability benefits? And the personal story of William who had a cochlear implant fitted before Christmas and is now hearing the world in a new way. Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan present.

See England through the eyes of American Muslim comedian with cerebral palsy, Maysoon Zayid. Plus, an app created to help disabled people stay stylish, the blind man earning a living by whistling at London tube stations, and find out how much Paul Carter and Tony Garrett remember about 2012's disability news stories. Liz Carr and Rob Crossan present.

The blind man mistakenly tasered by police and superstorm Sandy are the stories under discussion. Plus, how computer tablets are making a difference and the wheelchair-using traveller Zach Anner tells us about his new YouTube show launched since leaving Oprah's network. Liz Carr and Rob Crossan present.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson reflects on the success of the Paralympics and explains how she stays fit and flexible, now that she is no longer an athlete. Jess Thom, who has Tourette's syndrome, encourages us to laugh at her more humorous vocal tics. Plus, anyone for some Finnish learning disabled punk? Rob Crossan and Liz Carr present.

How did the Games originally start? What happens when you put 200 wheelchair athletes in a tower block with only two lifts? What does wheelchair racer Hannah Cockroft have for breakfast on competition day? And how does the mum of two Paralympic swimmers feel on the eve of the big home event? Rob Crossan presents this 45 minute special.

'Short' comedian Imaan Hadchiti doesn't suffer fools, the Paralympic cyclist Rachel Morris injured in a car crash while training plus the assistance animals that type PIN numbers ... and other stories. Rob Crossan and Julie Fernandez present.

A mum of two children with learning disabilities and a travel mad powerchair user tell us their holiday complexities. Plus, Clarence Adoo and Charles Hazlewood from the Paraorchestra, and the ex-military Paralympians who use sport for their rehab. With Liz Carr and Rob Crossan.

Meet Lauren Potter who plays Becky, the Down's syndrome cheerleader in Glee. The president of the Paralympic movement talks to us about the future of the Games. Fish Police are our band this month, we discuss exam extensions, and is disability about to be cured? With Liz Carr and Rob Crossan.

Is it the year of disability on TV? The intriguing rules of the little-known Paralympic sport Boccia and the breakdance crew called ILL-Abilities, who want to ban 'disability' from the dictionary. With Liz Carr and Rob Crossan.

Features a disabled chocolatier, two members (one male, one female) from the GB wheelchair rugby team, disability euphemisms and a fond farewell to one of our presenters. Mat Fraser and Liz Carr present.