Access All: Disability News and Mental Health

Hollyoaks' new star, Kelly-Marie Stewart, joins Mat and Liz to chat about making her debut in the Channel 4 soap as a very feisty disabled character; Rob Crossan has his take on the disability news stories of the past month; Veg, Veg or Veg goes bilingual; and music comes from Australian pan-disability indie band, Rudely Interrupted. Plus, discussions on everything from wheelchair servicing to hul...

Thalidomider Sue Kent massages one of the team, with her feet. Rob Crossan breezes in with his slant on disability news, plus, being a travel writer with albinism, he expresses concern about a spate of killings in Africa of people with the condition. Hosts Mat Frazer and Liz Carr dive into the new year discussing presents, resolutions, ill-fitting slippers, the New Year Honours list and the possib...

Featuring the Christmas party quiz, Luke Hamill (that new disabled actor in Casualty), why Santa's dad was disabled, some far too open and honest discussion, plus a carol from the students at a blind school. Mat Fraser and Liz Carr present. Razor sharp disability chat like no one else would even want to ...

Meet the 16 year-old disabled actor who plays Walter Jnr in gritty US TV drama 'Breaking Bad'. Big Brother's Mikey reviews the disability stories in this months' news. Krip Hop radio presenters leroy and Vivegurl join us to talk about their new internet show ... and discussions range from Halloween parties to assisted suicide and whether disabled people ever get 'chugged'. Mat Fraser and Liz Carr...

Big Brother housemates Mikey and Darnell join Mat and Liz for October's show. What did the other contestants think of the disabled twosome? There's pure punk magic as learning disabled band Heavy Load play live in the studio, Rob Crossan provides his unique take on this month's disability news - and you won't believe what happens during Vegetable, Vegetable or Vegetable!

Schooldays, getting stared at, guerilla parking bay wardens and dead assistance dogs. Your monthly podcast continues with those all important daily disability themes (!) Liz Carr and Kiruna Stamell present.

Delicate conversation on sex and personal hygiene, an interview with stars from a new learning disability soap on the web, hot disability news from Rob Crossan, and our new quiz Disability Wars pits impairment against impairment to find out who's best. Lots more too, with presenters Mat Fraser and Liz Carr.

Studio guests are Britain's Top Missing Model judge Lara Masters, and the first eliminated contestant, Rebecca, talking about the BBC Three show featuring eight disabled women whose goal is to make it in the glamorous world of modelling. There are two visually impaired contestants on this year's Big Brother - Mat and Liz discuss this breakthrough with one of housemate Mikey's colleagues. Plus: vid...

Presented by Kiruna Stamell and Mat Fraser. Changing the rules of disability talk, this month Kiruna tries to work out why she was refused Disability Living Allowance by going through the forms on air for all to hear. Playwright Donna Franceschild talks about the DVD release of her '90s BBC2 drama Takin' Over the Asylum. Opinionated news from Rob Crossan and a Vegetable, Vegetable or Vegetable con...

We're in New York City! Presenters Mat Fraser and Liz Carr meet the astonishingly upfront and funny How's Your News? crew - a group of learning disabled road-trippers currently filming a new show for MTV - and disabled New Yorker Lawrence Carter-Long is in the studio to talk about accessible New York, the big disability protest in Washington in early May, and more. Plus, hear Mat performing in the...

Guest host Kiruna Stamell joins Mat Fraser for April's podcast, featuring disabled UK rapper MC Wheelz talking to US hip hop combo 4 Wheel City in New York. Chat includes: anaesthetic, surgery, assistance dogs, wolves and much, much more. Heck, it looks really crap written down, but trust us it's very entertaining!

An Australian-themed edition, as globe-trotting host Liz Carr checks in from Sydney, with Mat Fraser and Rob Crossan back in London. There's a phone interview with disabled Aussie comedian Steady Eddy, Liz's guests are Danny and Sam Noonan, both blind Ouch fans from Down Under, whilst Danny also provides the closing song. Rob and Liz compare disability news stories from their opposite sides of the...

This month, joining Mat Fraser and guest host, actress Julie Fernandez, are two stars of the new comedy movie 'Special People', which is going to be a highlight of the 8th Disability Film Festival, while Rob Crossan is also in the studio to discuss some juicy items of disability news. The hosts shoot the breeze about disability sport, there's a very characterful 'Vegetable, Vegetable or Vegetable'...

This month's show, broadcasting across the virtual airwaves from BBC Broadcasting House in London, features wheelchair workout queen Leanne Grose, who puts Podcast hosts Mat Fraser and Liz Carr through their exercise paces. There's an interview with 'Star Wars' and 'Harry Potter' actor Warwick Davis, another round of Vegetable, Vegetable or Vegetable, music from MC Dean of the Heart 'n Soul posse,...

This month's show is a very special festive extravaganza recorded in front of a live studio audience at the BBC Radio Theatre in London. Liz Carr is the strict question mistress as two teams take part in a disability-themed quiz. Joining Mat Fraser on his team is deaf comedian Steve Day, and they take on Laurence Clark and actress Julie Fernandez. Plus, piano genius and 'human iPod' Derek Paravici...

Mat and Liz discuss the controversial case of disabled teenager Katie Thorpe, whose mother is seeking a hysterectomy for her so that she won't have to suffer monthly periods; Roving Rob Crossan is at one of London's most popular tourist attractions, Madame Tussauds; studio guests are from Yarrow, a social housing project for people with learning difficulties, who have made a movie with award-winni...

Mat and Liz talk to blind psychic Sharon Neill, who also helps out our presenters with Vegetable, Vegetable or Vegetable. Liz chats about accessibility at funerals (it's more cheerful than it sounds, honest), and there's also a discussion about personal assistants: where do you draw the line between PA or partner? Rob Crossan goes on a date with a Podcast listener, plus there's music from Brighton...

Liz Carr is joined by guest presenter Laurence Clark in a show featuring Holly Lane's reports from the Liberty disability rights festival in London's Trafalgar Square, a discussion about disability parenting with Jacqui Jackson and Yuen Har Tse, another round of the Podcast favourite Vegetable, Vegetable or Vegetable (with Laurence reading the rules very fast!), music from 'Aussie autie' Donna Wil...