Listen From the very best bits to what you’ve been talking about, we’ve got the Paralympic Games 2012 covered! You might have guessed from my Facebook posts and tweets for @DHorizons today that I’m a just little excited about the Paralympics! I’ve never really been particularly interested in sports. In fact, if I’m honest, they usually [...]
Listen From the very best bits to what you’ve been talking about, we’ve got the Paralympic Games 2012 covered! So, we’ve just experienced day one of the London Paralympics 2012, kicked off by one of the biggest Paralympic Opening Ceremonies I’ve ever seen. If you missed it, check out our photo gallery from inside the stadium, [...]
Listen In a spectacular opening ceremony in front of 80,000 spectactors and millions of people watching on TV, last night, the Queen officially opened the London 2012 Paralympic Games. In a dazzling and moving spectacle embracing a theme of ‘enlightenment’, an inclusive and diverse variety of artists, performers and musicians paid homage to the science [...]
Listen From 6th to 9th September, Graeae will be showcasing a new accessible outdoor production called The Garden at the Riverside Terrace, Southbank Centre. We speak to writer, Alex Bulmer, who is partially sighted, about the production and its background. For those of you who haven’t come across Graeae before, it is a fantastic and [...]
Listen John Pring, who runs the Disability News Service, publishes his weekly news round-up of the happenings in the disability world the past week. • Prison authorities have been accused of risking a disabled man’s life by failing to provide the 24-hour specialist care he needs while serving a prison sentence for drug smuggling. • [...]
Listen Tonight the Paralympic opening ceremony – tipped to be like nothing we have seen before – will signal the start of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The next eleven days will, undoubtedly, be a fantastic spectacle of top-level competitive sport. Rest assured that Disability Horizons will be reporting on all the action! The Paralympic Games are coming home [...]
Listen The Paralympic Games 2012 are nearly upon us and wherever you are and whatever you’re doing – whether watching the Games at home or visiting one of the venues in London – we want to make sure you enjoy the Paralympics to the full. From the 29th August until the 9th September, over 4,000 [...]
Listen As London welcomes the world this summer for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Paralympics and Olympics, we at Disability Horizons have been compiling a list of the most accessible tourist spots around this great city. So, if you’re planning a trip to London, first check out what Co-Editor, Srin Madipalli, has to say about these [...]
Listen With the Paralympic Games starting in London in just two days, Disability Horizons Co-editor and London resident, Martyn Sibley, shares his top tips on travelling around the UK’s capital. We all know that tens of thousands of visitors have been heading to the UK (and in particular London) this summer to be part of [...]
Listen I’m Spazticus is a new hidden camera prank show from Channel 4, airing in the run up to the Paralympics. As this controversial four-part disability show comes to an end, we hear from one of the actors and writers, Simon Stevens. Originally a pilot in 2005 as a part of Channel 4′s Comedy Lab, [...]
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