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Rewind radio: Today; Beyond Disability – Adventures of a Blue Badger; It’s My Story – The Long Walk; The Spirit of Schubert – review

Rewind radio: Today; Beyond Disability – Adventures of a Blue Badger; It’s My Story – The Long Walk; The Spirit of Schubert – review

In a Today programme feature on the island of Sark, Sarah Montague teased out a powerful story of mystery and intimidation Today (Radio 4) | iPlayer Beyond Disability: Adventures of a Blue Badger (5 Live) | iPlayer It’s My Story: The Long Walk (Radio 4) | iPlayer Schubert (Radio 3) | iPlayer The Today programme is usually burbling away in the background as the Sawyer family enjoys a relaxed breakfast (baby poking spoons in her ears; six-year-old “doing” spelling while in vital final stages of solo Cornflake-eating race; Mr S checking football scores, managing toast production line; me in never-ending search for missing phone/sock/cup of half-drunk coffee). And the Today programme suits us fine, until it gets to the 8.10am interview

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Martin Amis: Only brain injury could make me write for children

Martin Amis: Only brain injury could make me write for children

Children’s authors have expressed anger over ‘insult’ to their work on BBC programme Remarks about children’s books made by Martin Amis on the BBC’s new book programme Faulks on Fiction , broadcast this week, have caused anger and offence among children’s writers. “People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children’s book,” Amis said, in a sideways excursion from a chat about John Self , the antihero of his 1984 novel Money.

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My Story: Tim Rushby-Smith

Three years ago an accident left Tim Rushby-Smith facing sudden disability – just as he was about to become a father for the first time. He explains how he learned to face the future head on and build a new life – as a man, a husband and a father.

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My Story: If You Fall…

Back in 1993, a rock-climbing accident left Karen Darke paralysed from the chest down. Though the life she’d previously known had come to an end, time and the inspiration of friends and family – plus a lot of trial and error on her part – has led to a new meaningful and fulfilling life, as [...]

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My Story: Belinda Hollowood

Belinda Hollowood hasn’t let Turner Syndrome – a chromosome condition that affects only women and invariably leads to short stature and infertility – stop her from enjoying life. I was born on Boxing Day, 1962 in a small nursing home in Bilston, near Wolverhampton. I was diagnosed with Turner Syndrome at birth, but did not [...]

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My Story: Ems Coombes

Plymouth-based Ems Coombes was hoping for a special birthday present in June – the launch of her new multi-ability theatre company, Strictly Collaborative. I had a stroke when I was 17 and, as a teenager, found I was given little support; when I came out of hospital, there wasn’t anything. I didn’t know what was [...]

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