Disability History on Recent Audio Programs

*“Passing: Race, Disability, and Gender” is the latest episode of the History Buffs Podcast, posted May 8, 2016. Hosts Sarah Handley Cousins, Marissa C. Rhodes, and Katie Smyser discuss Franklin Roosevelt’s disability in the context of passing, among many other topics, on the hour-long podcast.

https://historybuffs.org/2016/05/08/passing-race-disability-and-gender/

*Another podcast, Missed in History, focused on the sign language of Martha’s Vineyard in an April 2016 episode:
http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/the-shared-sign-language-of-marthas-vineyard/
(The transcript for this one is also at the link.)
*And BBC Radio 4’s “The Reunion” featured an episode recently (April 2016) that “reunites five people who experienced a long and bitter struggle for historic disability discrimination rights.” The conversation includes Baroness Jane Campbell, Sir Bert Massie, Peter White, Lord Hague, and Adam Thomas.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0769qsq