“I found it really difficult to get involved”
From recycling hearing aid batteries to switching banks, Sam Little’s ambition to be more eco-friendly started small
Our Earth Day episode is out now 🌍 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0fhx5…
I am so pleased to work with @flipscreened and @scratchcinema who have dedicated themselves to this initiative. If you are a volunteer based publication and you would like accessibility advice from me, then my DMs are open and I’d gladly write up some guidelines
If you can retweet, then I’d appreciate any support! Disabled people shouldn’t have to fight or struggle for access to films or film criticism. The magic of cinema should be a shared experience, one that everyone can immerse themselves in
[THREAD] I’ve decided to reach out to film journalism publications to encourage the implementation of accessible features such as alt text and captions. It is vital to include disabled and Deaf writers in an industry that already systematically excludes disabled people
Nothing like an evening vote to get you ready for the weekend!
Was a relief to be able to use my phone to make seeing the ballot paper much easier.
Now the play the waiting game...
#GuideDogsAtPollingStations
Today Nancy qualified as a Guide Dog! 🎉🦮
It made the
* 1,500 miles of school runs
* Extra 80 mins weekday driving
* 3,000 volunteering hrs
* Countless hrs looking for big busies in the park
* Hoovering enough hair to stock a jumper shop ALL worth it
@guidedogs#GuideDogsCymru
Caitlin and Brinston became disabled as young adults. Fed-up of people staring, they turned to fashion and their modelling careers took off.
This podcast might be about fashion but it's the deepest disability dive you'll hear before 2020 - Enjoy!
bbc.in/2PETMFK
I can’t quite believe I’m writing this tweet... I am the first ever blind @BBCR1 presenter... EVER! 🎤 listen to my shows on the 28th and 29th of December 🎧 bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latest…
Sitting st my desk grinning from ear to ear listening to @laurenlaverne interview Pheobe Waller-Bridge. Actual shivers hearing her describe the conception of the Hot Priest 😍 @BBC6Music
On International Day of Disabled People, some clever folk who I really respect have made a plan for the BBC to have a more "authentic and distinctive" representation of disabled people on screen and to make things better for current and future staff. acorta.me/1Gq