Ouch! show 95: Things that make you go ouch!
| 16:44 UK time, Friday, 8 March 2013
Hear the Comedians with Disabilities Act on the March show
This month: 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.
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You heard the show, now find out more about the people and subjects featured.
- Find out more about Nina, Steve, Eric and Michael on their Facebook page.
- Read about artist Liz Crow's 48-hour live sleepover in a Salisbury arts centre. As she tells Rob and Liz, it's about bringing invisible disabled 'bed life' people into the open and highlighting changes to benefits. It'll be streamed on the web with BSL and captions, and you can take part via Twitter using which people are already using. Follow the link for more details.
- On the show, Laura Miller talks about how valuable she finds support from fellow parents who have similar challenges.
- Listen to this epic track from the cerebral palsy rapper from Hull on his "wheels of steel". You'll be singing it to yourself all month.
• The Ouch! talk show is a ±«Óătv News programme made exclusively for the internet and produced monthly by a team of disabled journalists and presenters.
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Comment number 1.
At 10th Mar 2013, Farhana Haque wrote:Do “disabled films” need to be labelled so from the outset? Since the car crash, I watch the same "normal", I’d have watched before. Examples...
I liked Edward Scissorhands, when I was a kid, now I see it as a metaphor for disability.
The Iron Lady. The final scene Maggie starts to understand her condition. She just gets on with the washing up: living a new life with her diseased brain.
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