Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap present The Disability and...Podcast

Disability Arts Online and Mind the Gap present The Disability and...Podcast


Latest Episodes

Disability and...CRIPtic Arts with Jamie Hale
April 02, 2024

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 the CRIPtic came into existence and their thoughts and approaches when working

Disability and...Mental Health with James Leadbitter
February 29, 2024

This month, Mind the Gaps 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.

Disability and...Climate Change with AlanJames Burns and Julia Watts Belser
February 05, 2024

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 S

Disability and...Pantomimes with Chris Hannon
December 19, 2023

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

Disability and...Cultural Identity with Eleanor Lisney and Eric Wu
December 04, 2023

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 stu

Disability and...Playwriting with Daniel Foulds and Leanna Benjamin
October 30, 2023

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

Disability and...Classical Music with Baluji Shrivastav
September 25, 2023

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

Disability and...Disability Pride with Daniel Foulds
August 28, 2023

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

Disability and...Intersectionality with Jasmin Thien
July 28, 2023

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

Disability and...Education with Matthew Reason and Melissa Conyers
June 30, 2023

This month, Mind the Gaps Assistant Producer Paul Wilshaw chats with Professor of Theatre at York St Johns University, Matthew Reason and Mind the Gap's Head of Learning & Support Melissa Conyers about University education and how the two organisati