Nothing About Us Without Us!

The Way We Roll

It’s a fantastic show this month - insight, depth, nostalgia, vulnerability, power and the future.

The BBC recently broadcast a docudrama telling the story of the disability rights campaigners of the early 1990s in the UK. Using the love story between two key protagonists, Then Barbara Met Allan is a landmark piece of television. Not only because of the story it told but the number of creative disabled people who made it. It allows Phil and Simon to take a joyful and triumphant walk and wheel down memory lane to talk about their memories of this time and the impact it had on the country as well as so many individuals.

Slips trips and falls are a common occurrence for some with a disability. Unfortunately, Phil recently took a tumble. When you’re campaigning for social justice, you’re seemingly invincible but in reality, we can all experience moments when things don’t go as planned. What can you do, what can you change and does the fall or the shame hurt the most?

We talk about what is happening to disabled people in Ukraine. We have a remarkable update from Sarah, one of our immunocompromised guests from the previous show and a lovely Listener's Corner on the impact it made. Geoff tells us all about Yellow Jackets and there’s a shout out for your help on a future show.

Links

Then Barbara Met Alan

Wikipedia

BBC iPlayer

Disabled people’s Direct Action Network

Disability Rights, a history as a wallchart

BBC article When disabled people took to the streets to change the law

Barbara Lisicki aka Wanda Barbara

Johnny Crescendo aka Alan Holdsworth

Disabled people in Ukraine

Sophie Morgan book

Yellow Jackets

Chapters

1. Nothing About Us Without Us! (00:00:00)

2. Phil takes a tumble (00:00:39)

3. Then Barbara met Alan (00:18:19)

4. Ukraine (00:30:50)

5. Culture Corner with Geoff Spink (00:33:49)

6. Listener's Corner (00:41:33)