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Here are the latest links to disability related programmes on BBC TV, radio and iPlayer HIGHLIGHTS DON'T MISS THE OUCH! TALK SHOW Drugs that get in your drinking water, heckles from passers-by when you're trying to make an impression on a first date and we're joined by the bizarre crew of the Shut Up and Listen comedy/rock radio show for people with learning disabilities!! Rob Crossan and Kiruna Stamell present. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/05/podcast_69_first_dates_and_lea.html Subscribe for free via iTunes or your favourite podcatcher from this page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ouch SHE HAS A WAY WITH WORDS DB guides you through a sliding scale of disability insults to help you avoid the kind of tabloid fury recently directed at comedian Ricky Gervais. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/opinion/b1tch/db_hates_insults.shtml 13 QUESTIONS: STUART MITCHELL Meet the Scottish comedian who has fewer than the full complement of fingers. But hey, we're cool with that, aren't we everyone? http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/interviews/13_questions_comedian_stuart_mitchell.shtml THERE WILL BE MORE PROTESTS LIKE THIS WEEK'S DISABILITY MARCH The organisers seem set to continue Wednesday's protest formula after deeming it a big success. Damon Rose was at the march and blogged about it for us. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ouch/2011/05/there_will_be_more_protests_li.html *********************************************************** Follow Ouch! on Facebook and Twitter, where you can read site updates, look at our photos and join the disability debate. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ouch-BBC/103894186308162 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbcouch *********************************************************** TELL RADIO 4 ABOUT YOUR BENEFITS SITUATION Are you on Incapacity Benefit? Have you received a letter asking you to go for a reassessment to see if you can be moved onto Employment Support Allowance? Or are you about to appeal against an earlier decision? BBC Radio 4 is looking for volunteers to take part in a documentary programme about these assessments. We want to follow people through the process of assessments or appeals. Please get in touch, by phone or email, if you have received your letter and would like to be involved. Contact: Julia Ross 0207 973 6228 julia.ross@bbc.co.uk TV & RADIO > LISTEN - Radio 4 - You and Yours Are disabled people the 'hardest hit'? Julian Worricker investigates whether they are more severely affected by the spending cuts and welfare reform than anyone else. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b010xzzh/You_and_Yours_10_05_2011/ > LISTEN - Radio 4 - You and Yours An examination of calls for change to the way people whose health conditions have symptoms that can fluctuate daily (such as MS, HIV and Parkinson's) are assessed for benefits. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b010y0sk/You_and_Yours_11_05_2011/ > WATCH - World - Click Jeff Hall, who cannot speak and is paralysed, looks at the prevalence of multi-gesture devices which make it hard for disabled people to use computers and similar devices. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00ggb5y/Click_10_05_2011/ > LISTEN - Radio 4 - In Touch Is it possible to earn a living as a blind artist? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b010y3bp/In_Touch_Is_it_possible_to_earn_a_living_as_a_blind_artist_And_the_latest_report_on_drugs_for_AMD/ > LISTEN - World Service - Outlook The remarkable life story of eighties pop icon Adam Ant who, more recently, was diagnosed as having a mental illness. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00ggyhq/Outlook_Outlook_The_remarkable_life_story_of_eighties_pop_icon_Adam_Ant/ > WATCH - BBC Two - Children's Craniofacial Surgery A programme following the surgeons of the Children's Hospital Oxford and their young patients with disfiguring conditions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01168qn/Childrens_Craniofacial_Surgery_Smile/ Have a good weekend THE OUCH TEAM If you think anyone else you know would like to receive the Ouch! Newsletter, they can sign up here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/newsletter/ Look out for the many RSS feeds we have on the site so you can read Ouch! In the way you want. We now have a feed on our disability news page which you can embed in your own website. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
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