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...Performance Academy
September 05, 2024

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.

Disability and...DAM in Venice with Tony Heaton
August 01, 2024

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 s

Disability and...Birdie with Emily Blackwell & Charlotte Jones
July 01, 2024

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. 

Disability and...Historical Characters with Arthur Hughes
May 28, 2024

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 pas

Disability and...Cutting Edge Theatre with Suzanne Lofthus and Abigail Brydon
April 30, 2024

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.

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

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