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YYDisab: Station Access We look at the accessiblity of train station platforms in the UK and hear the arduous journey of one disabled passenger travelling in a wheelchair. David Sindall from the Association of Train Operating Companies and Ann Bates from the disabled persons transport advisory committee join Julian Worricker in the studio to discuss the issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYDisab: Mobility scooters ban reversed, 30 March 2009 Nexus, operators of the Tyneside Metro, have decided to overturn a ban on mobility scooters on their trains, provided drivers agree to take a test. The ban followed incidents in which drivers had fallen on to the tracks at metro stations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYDisab: Andrew Lee Andrew Lee has learning difficulties and has gone through many of the experiences associated with that impairment – being bullied, dead-end jobs and deterred from having children. He’s now director of People First, the national campaigning organisation run by people with learning difficulties. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYDisab: Jack Ashley Veteran campaigner Lord Jack Ashley became the first deaf MP when he lost his hearing more than 40 years ago. Since then he's campaigned constantly for disability rights, including setting up the Parliamentary All Party Disability Group and pressing the Government to introduce the Disability Discrimination Act. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYDisab: Rachel Hurst In the second of our disabled leaders series, Peter White talks to Rachel Hurst, former chair of the British Council of Disabled People, who has spent more than 20 years lobbying the EU and the UN for disability rights. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYDisab: Travel Insurance and Mental Health The Mental Health charity MIND talks to us about the lack of travel insurance policies that cover those who suffer their first bout of mental illness abroad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYDisab: Disability in soaps With EastEnders and Hollyoaks introducing new characters with physical disabilities, comedian Liz Carr ponders what lies in store for them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYDisab: Olympic transport Transport for London predicts that half a million people will visit the capital for the Olympics 2012. With many of them using trains and the underground to get to the venues, can the system cope with those who have a disability? Peter White and wheelchair user Flash travelled from Heathrow to Stratford to find out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYDisab: John Killick’s dementia poetry For over a decade John Killick has been the Writer-in-Residence in nursing homes for people living with dementia. During this time he’s been fashioning poems directly from their speech. He’s just published his third book of poems. Peter White interviews him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYDisab: Ian Rankin on the Scottish Braille Press Yesterday was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille– the inventor of the system of embossed type used by blind people to read and write. Each character is made up of six raised dots and the basic Braille system can accommodate 63 characters. Today a campaign is being launched to safeguard the future of one of Britain’s leading Braille pressers.The author Ian Rankin, creator of Inspector Rebus, is supporting the campaign. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYDisab: Social Care Academy 18 Dec 08 Early next year the Government will launch a National Skills Academy for Social Care to improve the training of England’s 1.5 million care workers. What difference will it make? Guest: Jennifer Bernard, Programme director of the National Skills Academy for Social Care Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website YYDisab:National Bus Passes 29th Oct 08 Has the National Bus Pass scheme introduced in England in April actually made disabled people less independent? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website