Disability Arts Online presents The Disability and...Podcast

This month, on Disability and...DAO's Digital Operations Manager, Joe Turnbull, chats with Sabrina Cruickshank about the launch of Disorderly Theatre, a user-led theatre company for neurodivergent adults.

In this episode of Disability and…, Disability Arts Online's Joe Turnbull chats with Ben Pettitt-Wade, artistic director of Hijinx Theatre, about their celebrated show Meet Fred . Now on its 10th anniversary UK tour, Meet Fred follows a two-foot-tall puppet navigating a world full of barriers - from the job centre to everyday life and draws a powerful parallel between a puppet's reliance on its pu...

On this episode of Disability and... Disability Arts Online Founder, Colin Hambrook, chats with author, comedian, and psychotherapist Liz Bentley about her new book, The Suicidal Therapist.

On this podcast episode DAO Digital Operations Manager Joe Turnbull chats with DAO board Member and Project Lead for the TV Access Project, Eli Beaton and the multi-award winning playwright and screenwriter Jack Thorne about accessibility in the television industry.

This month, writer, dramaturg and director, Kate Lovell chats with Artistic Director of Zoo Co theatre, Flo O’Mahony, about their production Perfect Show for Rachel. Perfect Show is directed by Flo's sister, Rachel, a theatre-loving, enigmatic, learning-disabled woman. Kate and Flo discuss the practicalities of having a learning-disabled person in creative control, how audiences have responded and...

In this episode of Disability and... choreographer and artistic director of Cathy Waller Company, Cathy Waller chats with writer, artist and activist Jess Thom about her recent experience of claiming Access to Work. Cathy Waller Company works in partnership with disability arts online to deliver Decode, which is a vital service helping disabled creatives to navigate the Access to Work application...

This month DAO Founding Editor Colin Hambrook is joined on the Disability and... podcast by writer and activist Jet Moon. They discuss Jet's You Are Here project, an online resource which shares interviews and creative output from a survivor's writing group. 

In this months episode of Disability and... Dr Alison Wilde, an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, chats with Dr Ella Houston, a senior lecturer in Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, about her book Advertising Disability. 

This month on Disability and...curator Aidan Moesby chats to artists Joanne Coates and Louise Mclachlan about their participation in Towards New Worlds, a 'groundbreaking' exhibition of 15 disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent artists which Aidan co-curated at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. Themes from the discussion include identity, the power of photography to tell stories, and the importa...

This month, Colin Hambrook talks to Dr Colin Cameron, who is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University about The Affirmation Model of disability and his critique of the ableism at the heart of the Equality Act 2010.

This month, Colin Hambrook, Founding Editor of Disability Arts Online, and Paul Wilshaw, Engagement and Advocacy Worker at Mind the Gap, look back at the last three years of the Disability and… podcast. Going forward, Disability and… will be produced solely by Disability Arts Online, while Mind the Gap will launch their own bi-monthly podcast. Colin and Paul talk about their favourite interviews a...

In this episode Steph Robson is joined by academic and author Erin Pritchard to talk about Erin's latest book 'Dwarfism, Arts and Advocacy: Creating Our Own Positive Identity'.  

This month, Mind the Gap’s Assistant Producer Paul Wilshaw chats with writer Lucy Bell and Producer Naomi Turner of Documental Theatre. They look at the importance of the role of a Creative Producer, their latest project, ‘Mary and the Matrons’ and the opportunities for learning disabled people in the Southwest.

This month Disability Arts Online's Founding Editor Colin Hambrook speaks to poet, performer and theatre maker Ellen Renton. Ellen talks about Archive Stories, a project she is working on as part of a collective, creating work in response to both the Paralympic Heritage Trust archive and the National Disability Arts Collection Archive (NDACA).

On this months podcast, Mind The Gap’s Associate Producer Paul Wilshaw chats with Ella and Tim Curtis. Ella is a Special Olympics cycling gold medallist and she is coached by her father Tim. They talk about Ella's cycling journey and the differences between the Special Olympics and Paralympics. 

This month DAO journalist Will Reynolds spoke to Irish author Caimh CK McDonnell and his wife Elaine Ofori. Together, they talk about their independent publishing company, its output, disability, political correctness and the reasons why Caimh has given up stand up comedy for dog walking.

This month, Mind the Gap’s Associate Producer Paul Wilshaw chats with student actor Toby Ross and tutor in dance Karen Bartholomew about Mind the Gap’s Performance Academy accredited course.

This month founder and senior editor of Disability Arts Online, Colin Hambrook, chats with artist and activist Tony Heaton, about the Shape Disability Arts Movement in Venice exhibition, Crip Arte Spazio. They discuss how disability arts impacted on the social and political landscape of the 90s.

Paul Wilshaw, Assistant Producer at Mind the Gap talks to Emily Blackwell and Charlotte Jones about Mind the Gap's touring outdoor show Birdie and access when working with artists with neurodivergent or learning disabled artists. 

This month Disability Arts Online's Founding Editor Colin Hambrook chats with actor Arthur Hughes about his leading role in the newly released Disney+ Tudor spy thriller Shardlake.  This podcast is in memory of Shardlake's creator C.J. Sansom who sadly passed away shortly after this podcast episode was recorded.  

This month Paul Wilshaw, Associate producer at Mind the Gap talks to Cutting Edge Theatre's Artistic Director Suzanne Lofthus and Associate Artist Abigail Brydon about the work they do in Scotland.

This month on the Disability And... podcast, Disability Arts Online's Founding Editor Colin Hambrook talks to writer and Chief Executive of CRIPtic Arts, Jamie Hale, about how CRIPtic came into existence and their thoughts and approaches when working with disabled collaborators. 

This month, Mind the Gap’s Associate Producer Paul Wilshaw chats with artist and activist James Leadbitter, a.k.a. the Vacuum Cleaner, about his work around the topic of mental health, his work abroad, and how the arts help support people's mental health. This podcast contains some strong language. James Leadbitter's website.

This month Disability Arts Online have been taken over by audio visual artist, curator and producer AlanJames Burns. As part of their content takeover, AlanJames talks with Professor Julia Watts Belser who is a professor of Jewish Studies and Disability Studies at Georgetown University. They discuss their experiences as creative practitioners, members of the disability community, and as climate ac...

This month Mind The Gap's Associate Producer Paul Wilshaw chats with writer and actor Chris Hannon about the representation of disability in pantomimes and how Chris makes pantos more inclusive.  Chris has acted in Coronation Street and Doctors and for the past 13 years has been the Dame in the Wakefield Theatres panto.