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   BBC Ouch! disability newsletter - new talk show, history of accessible transport etc
Don't worry, it's only another 24 days until the next bank holiday ... though we tend to think of it more as a pharmacy holiday here in the Ouch! team. Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbcouch >> Scroll down for lots of goodies including links to disability related programmes on BBC TV, radio and iPlayer << *********************************************************** OUCH! TALK SHOW #50 YouTube star The Fully Sick Rapper, joins us from his quarantine bed in a Sydney hospital. Plus news, chat, games and music in our 50th birthday edition. Mat Fraser and Liz Carr present. Listen now or download it to your mp3 player. *********************************************************** VOTE DISABILITY B1TCH Ouch's regular bitter crip has decided to stand at the general election. Read her 'innovative' policies and tell us yours. THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISABILITY TRANSPORT Nicknamed Lizzie Brum Brum at school, Liz Carr is no stranger to car related quips. So Ouch! sent her to the Coventry Transport Museum, where she journeyed back in time to visit some of history's more unusual disability friendly vehicles. 13 QUESTIONS: ACTOR DAVID BOWER The deaf brother in Four Weddings and a Funeral and director of SignDance Collective, chatted to us for our regular interview series. DEAR DISABLED FRIEND Doodler Andre Jordan makes a medical fashion faux pas this week. DISCUSSIONS Posts from the ever popular and ever surprising Ouch! Message boards. STUFF > LISTEN: On next week's In Touch you can hear an interview with the blind man who has reached high office in the US - David Paterson, Governor of New York. He talks about his childhood, how he can't read Braille though hasn't yet embraced assistive technology. So what's his secret? Find out: Radio 4, 8:40pm, Tuesday 13 April. > LISTEN: The Entrepreneur's Wound BBC business editor Robert Peston talks to some of Britain's most successful business people about the effect that their traumatic childhood had on them. It's how 'life challenges' can help you succeed, so might interest you! > LISTEN: Victoria Derbyshire Martina Navratilova says her breast cancer diagnosis was her own personal 9/11. How have you coped with breast cancer? What happened when you were diagnosed?
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