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.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

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.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

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.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

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.By Disability Ars Online and Mind the Gap

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.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

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.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

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.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

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, memb…

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.…

This month Eleanor Lisney and Eric Wu are in conversation. Eleanor Lisney is a Disability Arts Online board member, she's also a co-founder of disabled women's collective Sisters of Frida and of Culture Access CIC. Eric Wu is a nutrition and dietetics student and mental health community organiser at King's College, London. Eleanor and Eric discuss …

This month, Mind the Gap Associate Artist Daniel Foulds chats with playwright and activist Leanna Benjamin about her experiences of being on the Graeae ‘Introduction to Playwrighting’ course, being ‘Artist for Change’ at Leeds Playhouse, and the barriers she faces in the theatre industry.By Disability Ars Online and Mind the Gap

This month on the Disability And...podcast, founding editor of Disability Arts Online Colin Hambrook chats with Baluji and Linda Shrivastav about the Inner Vision Orchestra, Jazz Orient, and Dot Aware: a wearable braille device to assist visually impaired musicians in the working environment.By Disability Arts Online and Graeae

On the 50th Disability and...Podcast, Mind the Gap's Assistant Producer Paul Wilshaw chats to learning-disabled writer and researcher Daniel Foulds about Disability Pride Month, identity politics and finding solidarity through the difficulties of managing multiple impairments.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

This month on the Disability and...Podcast, founding editor of Disability Arts Online, Colin Hambrook, chats with actor, writer, poet and comedian Jasmin Thien. Jasmin reflects on her intersectional experience of the performing arts as a disabled migrant to the UK, of Chinese heritage. They also discuss how Jasmin got into the arts and her recent d…

This month, Mind the Gap’s Assistant Producer Paul Wilshaw chats with Professor of Theatre at York St John’s University, Matthew Reason and Mind the Gap's Head of Learning & Support Melissa Conyers about University education and how the two organisations have come together to create an accredited course in theatre for people with learning disabilit…

This month, Disability Arts Online founding editor Colin Hambrook chats with writer and activist Will Reynolds about audiobooks, and the importance they have in his life.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

This month Paul Wilshaw chats with founders of TripleC and the Disability Artists Network Community (DANC) Cherylee Houston and Melissa Johns. He asks them about their careers as actors and how their experiences led to the formation of Triple C and DANC. This podcast contains some strong language. TripleC website…

This month, artist and creative practitioner Steph Robson, aka Hello Little Lady, chats with award-winning theatre maker and equality strategist, Vici Wreford-Sinnott. Steph asks Vici about the importance of regional identity, the Northeast's role in disability arts history, and the current regional and national landscape for disabled artists. Rela…

This month, Mind the Gap's Associate Producer Paul Wilshaw, chats with theatre and TV freelance actor Rob Ewens about some of his successes on screen and stage.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

This month, DAO Founding Editor Colin Hambrook chats with Disability Arts Shropshire's (DASH) recently-retired Artistic Director Mike Layward about changes within the visual arts sector that he's observed over his 25 years with DASH.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

This month, Mind the Gap's Associate Producer Paul Wilshaw speaks to Touring Director Tamara Searle and Ensemble Member Scott Price from the award-winning Australian theatre company Back to Back Theatre, about the company and its recent UK tour of The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

This month writer, workshop facilitator and creative mentor, Omikemi and multidisciplinary artist, socially engaged practitioner and creative producer, Priya Mistry, aka whatsthebigmistry, chat about sustainable and caring approaches to the arts. Both are members of the Onyx Collective, a group of artists supported by Disability Arts Online who sha…

This month, Paul Wilshaw chats with CEO and Artistic Director James Brining and Deputy Artistic Director Amy Leach of Leeds Playhouse about their inclusive policies, their engagement with Ramps on the Moon, and how they dealt with the first lockdown. More information about Leeds Playhouse can be found here. More information about Ramps on the Moon …

A special live edition of the Disability...And podcast, recorded at the Southbank Centre's Unlimited Festival 2022. Disability Arts Online founding editor Colin Hambrook is joined by writer, programmer and creative producer Tarek Elmoutawakil, multi-award winning poet, playwright and dramaturg, Kaite O'Reilly, and policy maker and theatre maker, De…

This month, Mind the Gap's Assistant Producer Paul Wilshaw chats with CBeebies presenter George Webster and Coronation Street's Alex Warner, Liam Bairstow. He asks them about how they got started in acting, their careers and what their thoughts are about disability representation in television and film.…

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This month, Mind the Gap's Assistant Producer, Paul Wilshaw chats with Executive Director, Julia Skelton about the company and its achievements.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

This month, Michael McEwan talks to Kate Adams and Esther Springett, about the innovative visual arts organisation and Turner Prize nominees, Project Artworks.By Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap

This month, Disability Arts Online's Editor Colin Hambrook speaks to Graeae's former Associate Director, Nickie Miles-Wildin about the last three years of the Disability and...Podcast. Graeae will be stepping aside from the podcast after this episode and Mind the Gap will be welcomed as new partners as of next month. Colin and Nicky talk about thei…

This month Sonny Nwachukwu chats with Britny Virginia, both Graeae Associate Artists, about Britny's artistic practice and career journey so far.By Disability Arts Online and Graeae

This month, Disability Arts Online's Assistant Editor Joe Turnbull chats with writer, singer and disability campaigner Lachi, about her current project RAMPD and her other achievements. This podcast contains strong language. Lachi's website. Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities (RAMPD).…

This month, Graeae's Associate Artist Kate Lovell chats with Graeae's trainee producer Robyn Bowyer about art and theatre and how it can inform social change.By Disability Arts Online and Graeae

This month, founding Editor of Disability Arts Online, Colin Hambrook, chats with artist and writer Letty McHugh, who is currently an associate artist with Disability Arts Online. Letty talks about her Disability Arts Online project the Book of Hours, and her thinking around art as a way of creating meaningful connections.…

This month, Disability Arts Online Guest Editor, Zuleika Lebow chats with artist Kyla Harris about SciFi and her wheelchair, Edna. This episode contains references to ableism and strong language.By Disability Arts Online and Graeae

This month, Disability Arts Online's Editor, Colin Hambrook chats to artist and climate activist, Mike Faulkner about Disability and...NeurodiversityBy Disability Arts Online and Graeae

This month, Graeae's associate director Nickie Miles-Wildin chats with paratriathlete, paracyclist, physiotherapist, percussionist and two times world paraclimbing champion, Fran Brown. Fran tells us all about her sporting career ahead of competing for GB in the paratriathlon at the Tokyo Paralympic Games this summer.…

This month, Natasha Sutton Williams and EJ Scott chat about different voices, a research project initiated by the Ditchling Museum of Arts and Craft in partnership with Disability Arts Online. They explore the careers of women artists of the 20th century's Art and Crafts movement, who were associated with this small but significant museum in rural …

This month Graeae’s young associate Ayzah Ahmed chats to Graeae’s current Artistic Director Jenny Sealey and past Graeae Artistic Director Ewan Marshall (1991-1997) about their memories of the company and their experiences of directing.By Disability Arts Online and Graeae

This month, Disability Arts Online's Assistant Editor Joe Turnbull chats with writer/filmmaker, Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart about their PhD research into the Royal Courts of the Renaissance Period and the role that disability played during the era. Jessica's video's for BBC Scotland's The Social: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07l3ldn Follow Jess…

On this month's podcast Graeae's Creative Learning Director, Jodi-Alissa Bickerton, chats to Ensemble Graduates about their experience on Graeae's Ensemble theatre makers training programme which will be be running again this September 2021.By Disability Arts Online and Graeae

This month Colin Hambrook, editor of Disability Arts Online, chats with writer and performance poet, Allan Sutherland, about the launch of 'Electric Bodies' - a collection of poems based on the lives of eight disabled artists. This podcast contains some strong language.By Disability Arts Online and Graeae

This month to celebrate Graeae turning 40, Associate Director Nickie Miles-Wildin chats to co-founder of Graeae Theatre Nabil Shaban about his ambition of being an actor and a writer and what led him to set up Graeae. This podcast contains some strong language.By Disability Arts Online and Graeae

This month, Colin Hambrook chats with actor and producer Mat Fraser, about Crip Tales, a series of six disability-led monologues curated by Mat and recently broadcast on the BBC. This podcast contains strong language.By Disability Arts Online and Graeae

To celebrate Disability History Month, Nickie Miles-Wildin chats to actor, writer and disability activist, Ruth Madeley about Disability And... Access Into. Ruth tells us her story into acting, how she found out about being nominated for a BAFTA and what she's been working on during lockdown.By Disability Arts Online and Graeae

This month Graeae’s Associate Director, Nickie Miles-Wildin chats with playwright, screenwriter and Graeae Patron Jack Thorne. Jack tells us about what he’s been up to during lockdown, including working with Graeae on Crips without Constraints. He discusses his love for writing, his journey into writing for Theatre and TV and his on going relations…

To celebrate dyslexia awareness week, Colin Hambrook, editor of Disability Arts Online chats with Benedict Phillips artist and activist about his work, The Agender of the Agresiv Dislecksick, which has just had its 25th anniversary. Benedict will be giving a performance of the work, followed by a Q&A with Colin and artist and academic Aby Watson on…

This month Joe Turnbull, assistant editor of Disability Arts Online chats with Robert Softley Gale, writer, actor, activist, and Artistic Director of Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, about Disability And...the Mainstream. This podcast contains strong language.By Disability Arts Online and Graeae

For Disability And...Film Carousel's David Parker speaks to Oska Bright Lead Programmer, Matthew Hellet about his long-running history with the festival, the exciting developments in learning-disability film and their new lockdown programme Oska Bites. There are also cameo appearances from learning-disabled filmmakers Mattie Kennedy and Hugo Carlso…