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On this episode of Disability and..., Disability Arts Online's Communications Manager Sarah Marie Mooney is joined by Dr Maria Oshodi, Artistic Director of Extant, to talk about visually impaired access at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. From taking a show to the Fringe in 2007 to the progress made since, Maria discusses Extant's work with Fringe venues, their Ladder of Access and Enhance programme, and this year's first-ever visually impaired artist showcase.

This month, on Disability and...DAO's Digital Operations Manager, Joe Turnbull, chats with Sabrina Cruickshank about the launch of Disorderly Theatre, a user-led theatre company for neurodivergent adults.

In this episode of Disability and…, Disability Arts Online's Joe Turnbull chats with Ben Pettitt-Wade, artistic director of Hijinx Theatre, about their celebrated show Meet Fred. Now on its 10th anniversary UK tour, Meet Fred follows a two-foot-tall puppet navigating a world full of barriers - from the job centre to everyday life and draws a powerful parallel between a puppet's reliance on its puppeteers and the support networks that many disabled people rely on.

On this episode of Disability and... Disability Arts Online Founder, Colin Hambrook, chats with author, comedian, and psychotherapist Liz Bentley about her new book, The Suicidal Therapist.

On this podcast episode DAO Digital Operations Manager Joe Turnbull chats with DAO board Member and Project Lead for the TV Access Project, Eli Beaton and the multi-award winning playwright and screenwriter Jack Thorne about accessibility in the television industry.

This month, writer, dramaturg and director, Kate Lovell chats with Artistic Director of Zoo Co theatre, Flo O’Mahony, about their production Perfect Show for Rachel. Perfect Show is directed by Flo's sister, Rachel, a theatre-loving, enigmatic, learning-disabled woman. Kate and Flo discuss the practicalities of having a learning-disabled person in creative control, how audiences have responded and how the production has evolved over time.

In this episode of Disability and... choreographer and artistic director of Cathy Waller Company, Cathy Waller chats with writer, artist and activist Jess Thom about her recent experience of claiming Access to Work.Cathy Waller Company works in partnership with disability arts online to deliver Decode, which is a vital service helping disabled creatives to navigate the Access to Work application process. You can find Disability Arts Online's Access to work guide at disabilityarts.online/atwFind out more about Decode disabilityarts.online/decodeThe postal address for Access to Work is: Access to Work Service Centre, Harrow Jobcentre, Mail Handling Site A, Wolverhampton, WV98 1JE

This month DAO Founding Editor Colin Hambrook is joined on the Disability and... podcast by writer and activist Jet Moon. They discuss Jet's You Are Here project, an online resource which shares interviews and creative output from a survivor's writing group.

In this months episode of Disability and... Dr Alison Wilde, an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at Northumbria University, chats with Dr Ella Houston, a senior lecturer in Disability Studies at Liverpool Hope University, about her book Advertising Disability.

This month on Disability and...curator Aidan Moesby chats to artists Joanne Coates and Louise Mclachlan about their participation in Towards New Worlds, a 'groundbreaking' exhibition of 15 disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent artists which Aidan co-curated at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. Themes from the discussion include identity, the power of photography to tell stories, and the importance of safe spaces like Towards New Worlds for disabled artists.

This month, Colin Hambrook talks to Dr Colin Cameron, who is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University about The Affirmation Model of disability and his critique of the ableism at the heart of the Equality Act 2010.

This month, Colin Hambrook, Founding Editor of Disability Arts Online, and Paul Wilshaw, Engagement and Advocacy Worker at Mind the Gap, look back at the last three years of the Disability and… podcast.Going forward, Disability and… will be produced solely by Disability Arts Online, while Mind the Gap will launch their own bi-monthly podcast.Colin and Paul talk about their favourite interviews and what producing the podcast has meant to them.

In this episode Steph Robson is joined by academic and author Erin Pritchard to talk about Erin's latest book 'Dwarfism, Arts and Advocacy: Creating Our Own Positive Identity'.

This month, Mind the Gap’s Assistant Producer Paul Wilshaw chats with writer Lucy Bell and Producer Naomi Turner of Documental Theatre. They look at the importance of the role of a Creative Producer, their latest project, ‘Mary and the Matrons’ and the opportunities for learning disabled people in the Southwest.

This month Disability Arts Online's Founding Editor Colin Hambrook speaks to poet, performer and theatre maker Ellen Renton.Ellen talks about Archive Stories, a project she is working on as part of a collective, creating work in response to both the Paralympic Heritage Trust archive and the National Disability Arts Collection Archive (NDACA).