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Peter White meets the Brazilian pianist Marcelo Bratke who spent years denying his own blindness.

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Shari Vahl reports on fraudsters who are targeting deaf people via Facebook.

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Claudia Hammond talks to John Morgan, Head of the Yorkshire Centre for Eating Disorders in Leeds, about the possibility of a link between anorexia and autism.

in London has commissioned artist/director Mark Storor to create a new theatre production inspired by and featuring a company of teenagers.

The cast, then aged between twelve and fifteen, were selected via an open audition in October 2009 and include a member with a disability.

The resulting production includes theatre, live art and installation and explores themes of love, family, sexuality and religion through 13 'portraits'.

Actor Jacob Crossley has Asperger's syndrome and it was his experiences which inspired one of the show's stories.

Burlesque Boy is about a teenager with an aversion to body hair who fears that everyone wants to kill him. He also has questions about his sexuality.

"I never thought I would do something like this and meet new people. It has given me more confidence and I'm quite proud of myself. I want people to enjoy the play and keep an open mind on what it's about and who's in it," says Crossley.

opened at the Roundhouse Main Space, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH on 26 April and runs to 7 May 2011.

Lyn Gardner has written a review of the first night which you can read .

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Jono Lancaster was born with the rare genetic condition Treacher-Collins syndrome and has a 50% chance of passing it on to his children. Jono and his girlfriend explored the options available to them should they decide to start a family, as part of a 91Èȱ¬ Three documentary. Watch it now on iPlayer.

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Philip Sime explains the joys of ballroom dancing and why it's an ideal hobby for blind people.

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91Èȱ¬ pregnancy testing kits are currently totally inaccessible to people who are blind or severely visually impaired, but could they be adapted to include an audible result?

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Robert Hodierne on America's need to provide homes for its disabled war veterans.

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David Crepaz-Keay from the Mental Health Foundation discusses Catherine Zeta-Jones' recent treatment for bipolar disorder. (Last chance to hear)

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Could infection by parasites be at the root of human behaviour and even mental illness?

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Last year, Kay Gilderdale was cleared of the attempted murder of her daughter Lynn who had ME and was in constant agony. Kay helped her take a fatal overdose. Jenni Murray talks to her about what happened.

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We've scoured the news media and the social networks to bring you the top trending and most enlightening stories online and offline this week.

There is a new Rough Guide To Accessible Britain which explores There is also a handy

A blind girl's Justin Bieber fever has become one of the most popular trending on Youtube.

Elsewhere on Youtube the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists has created a comic video about Accessibility called :

There is a brand new website about which includes a directory of gardens open to the public written by people with disabilities for people with disabilities.

The 91Èȱ¬ Office are consulting on .

The pro Robin Hood Tax blog meets Broken of Britain's who throws around some interesting 'cuts' statistics.

Jono Lancaster, who has Treacher Collins syndrome, explores whether his hereditary disability should stop him and his partner from having a child in a 91Èȱ¬ Magazine article and a documentary on 91Èȱ¬ Three.

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On Monday evening I visited at the Royal College of Physicians. This free exhibition is based on portraits owned by the college, featuring disabled people from the past four hundred years.

Two medical historians, Carole Reeves and Julie Anderson, were commissioned to find out as much as possible about the lives of the people in the paintings. Their stories are presented in a really accessible and often amusing way, using language which was more acceptable at the time than it might be now.

Twenty-seven disabled people were invited to be photographed and filmed, so that their take on the selection of portraits could be recorded and added to the exhibition. Photos of them and audio highlights of their thoughts are arranged around the walls of the gallery and can be viewed as an integral part of the programme.

Most of the original subjects were very obviously physically disabled and many lived remarkable lives: There are the conjoined twins who married twin sisters and fathered 22 children between them, the man with no arms who is pictured sword fighting with his feet and 'Blind Granny' who would lick her blind eye and dance in the street for beer money.

Most of the pictures were created before institutions became the norm. People like Blind Granny would have been protected somewhat by the poor laws, the first of which was past in 1601 and made people who were "disordered" the responsibility of their community.

Unsurprisingly, a number of the life stories are tragic, involving exploitation and early death. However, many of the disabled people featured are reported to have made a lot of money 'exhibiting' themselves and to have been very positive and comfortable with their disabilities. Some were even said to have visited royalty.

Re-framing Disability can be viewed at the Royal College of Physicians until the 8th of July, when it will move to the gallery in Kentish Town before touring the UK. It has audio description.

If looking at disability-related medical stuff is your thing, London's has a selection of limbs, amputation saws and walking sticks among other things. They have recently added the option to request an audio described tour.

The at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, another medical treasure trove, is also worth a visit. They too have audio description and have added the full main audio guide and specialist audio description tracks to the museum's website so that anyone can download them if they're not able to get there and experience it first hand. The Hunterian are also starting to explore options for touch tours, however, they are apparently having some trouble figuring out how to make exhibits such as a brain in a jar accessible.

What happens when you throw 3 disabled comedians together and get a fourth disabled comedian to chair the discussion? Find out the answer in our latest holiday podcast special.

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Liz Carr is joined by an international panel to get to the bottom of when and why disability has its funny moments. Her guests are: Maysoon Zayid, Chris McCausland and Stella Young.

• used to describe herself as: "a Palestinian Muslim virgin with cerebral palsy from New Jersey" at least until she got married at the end of last year. Founder of the Arab-American Comedy Festival, she has also appeared in US TV soap As the World Turns and the Adam Sandler film You Don't Mess With The Zohan. Maysoon spends four months of every year working in the Middle East running a programme for children in Palestinian refugee camps; whilst there, she performs a sanitised version of her stand up routine in English and Arabic to local audiences. She joins us from our studio in San Francisco.

• believes he is the only full-time blind comedian in the UK. Winner of various comedy awards including best newcomer at Jongleurs in 204 and a runner-up in Channel 4's So You Think You're Funny. You may have seen Chris on the CBeebies show Me Too where he played the market trader Rudi; 150 episodes were made. You can see him at this year's Edinburgh Fringe in a new one man show. Chris joins us in our London studio.

• Stella Young is a comedian and former presenter of disability culture show No Limits on Australia's Channel 31. Much of her comedy material comes from her experiences as a less than average height wheelchair user. Most of Stella's time is currently focused on ABC's new disability website of which she is the startup editor. She talks to us on Skype from her home in Melbourne.

Some great lines of discussion in a roundtable special. Listen out for Stella's bizarre insect story and a great bit of banter between Chris and Maysoon about whether you should be proud of being disabled. Should you? Can you? Listen and make up your own mind. One thing's for sure, disabled people are uniquely positioned to see some pretty weird behaviour out there, it seems.

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Mat Fraser returns in early May with guest host Kiruna Stamell for a couple of hsows. Liz Carr will be back again in June. Everyone's so busy it's hard to pin them all down in one studio at the moment. We're using this as an opportunity to play around with the format though, so do tell us what you think, email: ouch@bbc.co.uk and/or leave comments below.

Our next podcast will be published on May 8 with another two weeks later.

The government , yesterday.

It's quite a long document so, if you like this kind of minutiae, I'd go and make a flask of coffee before reading it. And don't start after 9pm because, if you're like me, you'll wake up at 2am on the sofa with your laptop on the floor like I did last night when I attempted it.

• The Broken of Britain declare the response a , saying: "It is grossly unjust that the consultation itself closed after the Welfare Reform Bill was published, so that the consultation played no part in shaping the Bill, but it is probably not illegal."

• Every Disabled Child Matters (EDCM) . They say: "[EDCM] welcomes the clear message that the Government has given that reforms to DLA will
not be extended to under 16s without public consultation and Parliamentary scrutiny."

• The government also indicated in recent weeks that the proposed removal of the mobility component of DLA for those in residential care is also to be delayed after concern was fed back to them. Government believed that these mobility needs were already being met through another funding stream from local councils, though many groups and individuals say council run transport services are not adequate and something of a postcode lottery.

It seems from yesterday's document that the DLA mobility money may stay but other streams could be cut instead to avoid expense overlap. We'll find out by 2013.

Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is set to be replaced by Personal Independence Payments (PIP) in the next two years.

Have you read the response document yet? Tell us what you think in the comments, below.