Ouch disability talk show 104: Purple people
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On this month's show: Heather Mills is out of the Winter Paralympics, and are The Undateables really un-dateable?
Also, what do you do when your care role ends? And why do we say the disability pound is purple?
Rob Crossan and Kate Monaghan present.
Heather Mills, the purple pound and carer comedy
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Ouch regular Simon Minty, consultant and founder of the Abnormally Funny People , externalcomedy events, talks to us about Heather Mills pulling out of the running for a place on the GB team at the Winter Paralympics and Channel 4's Undateables, now back for a third series.
Mum and campaigner Nicky Clark, external joins us to talk about how her full-time carer role is coming to an end and now, using some of the time she finds herself with, she's attempting to get into stand-up comedy.
And the disability movement seems to be adopting the colour purple, perhaps most notably with its spending power referred to as the purple pound. Mary-Anne Rankin , externalof the Really Useful Stuff online shop talks to us about this and about how to woo disabled consumers.
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