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Entertainment & Culture

Steve Brown: Paralympic wheelchair rugby player and television presenter

We speak to Steve Brown, former Paralympic wheelchair rugby player who captained Team GB at the London 2012 Paralympics and…

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Entertainment & Culture

Representation of disability in popular culture in 2020 – where are we now?

Emma West, who worked at the BBC for more than a decade, looks at the representation of disability in popular…

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Entertainment & Culture

Rising Phoenix: a documentary about the Paralympic Games movement

Paralympian's hail launch of ground-breaking movie Rising Phoenix, which features the story of the Paralympic Games movement and is streamin on…

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Entertainment & Culture

Cerrie Burnell: disabled actress, author and TV presenter

Cerrie Burnell is a disabled actress, author and TV presenter best known for being a presenter of the BBC children’s…

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Entertainment & Culture

Briony May Williams: Bake Off semi-finalist and TV presenter who lives with a “little hand”

Briony May Williams is a disabled baker and TV presenter who got to the smi-finals of the Great British Bake…

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Work & Education

Turning my passion for films into a career as a disabled film editor

Stephanie Castelete-Tyrrell, who has congenital Muscular Dystrophy, has turned her passion for film and editing into a career as a…

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Entertainment & Culture

BBC commissions new factual drama to mark 25th anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act

The BBC has commissioned a new factual programme about disabled activists Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth, and the campaigns that…

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News

Crip Camp: a documentary that celebrates the disability revolution

Netflix's Crip Camp is a documentary focussing on the disabled campers of Camp Jened who fought for the civil rights…

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News

Paralympian Libby Clegg in the Dancing on Ice final

Paralympian Libby Clegg, who is registered blind, made the final of the ITV reality show Dancing on Ice. Read on…

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Entertainment & Culture

Disabled actress Liz Carr set to star in her first Hollywood blockbuster

Disabled actress Liz Car is set to feature in her first Hollywoodd film. She is best known for playing Clarissa…

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