Disability audio on the BBC

Two bits of disability related BBC reporting caught my attention this week.

On Monday, an item aired on Radio 4's Today programme and subsequently elsewhere on the BBC, about security correspondent, Frank Gardner's trip to the Norwegian Arctic. According to the news website, he "swapped his wheelchair for a snow mobile", to visit Walking with the Wounded, a group of disabled soldiers who have just launched an attempt to make it to the North Poll. Here's a link to the video.

This morning, also on Radio 4's Today programme, Sarah Montague interviewed blind musicians Amadou et Mariam. They are one of the African bands to be chosen to play at a concert organised to celebrate the start of the World cup. Listen to the interview here and as an added bonus, here's what happened when I interviewed the Mali couple for Ouch's 13 Questions feature.