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- Poor reception for Beeb season
- Channel 4 claims winning team for Games
- In the ghetto: TV disability and dating
- Tributes follow Kerry's death
- Short shrift for Davis show critics
- No good news on bad news stories
- Fronting up on mental health
- Wireless for the blind
- Love is on the air
- Ouch! feels sting of messageboard closure
- When love is deaf
- Death doc sparks Beeb bias row
- Henry defiant on stammering spoof
- Face to face with prejudice
- Beeb wins radio Paralympic rights
- Firth's faithful to King's speech patterns
- Boyle in hot water over gags
- No bar to TV talent
- Here, there and everywhere!
- RADAR shortlists top tv shows
- Red top "cheats" crusade fuels hate
- C4's 2012 talent trawl
- Keeping it real in Albert Square
- Larging it on Big Brother
- Autism: the media must-have
- Wheels come off Beeb Strictly spin-off
- No soft soap on disability
- No cause for glee
- Disability - a phoney business
- Here is the news
- Desert Island Risks
- I'm a celebrity... get me a fake disability
- Here's to 'Freakshow TV'
- TV ban for motor-neurone ad
- We want what you've got
- Susan Boyle – The dream turns nightmare
- Lizzie Lakely: Emmerdale's new likely lass
- Credibility down the tube
- Nightmares and fairytales
- Social networks - hit or miss?
- Getting your kit off on TV
- Don't just grin and bear it
- Luke's no casualty
- Blind person on TV – Shock
- Piranha savaged by BBC sharks bites back
- Roll up, roll up...
- Gill's lack of taste
- Model meets role model
- BB's scary reality
- Breaking into news
- BBC must face up to reality
- Spice up your lingo
- The road to unenlightenment
- Good news on screen
- Ground-breaking? Or car-crash TV?
- Calling all the shots
- Just a minute, Mr Merton
- Social care on the air
- The Heat is on Harvey
- Beeb’s phone-in hang-up
- Auntie's latest bloomer
- Trouble at Mills
- Robert is FT to burst
- Andy's personal Hell
- November 2007
- Independent Living Fund to close
- Work test 'not fit for purpose'
- Challenged on 'cheats', Miller blames media
- Welfare cuts mean hard times ahead
- Cuts threaten independent living
- Obituary: Graham Bool
- IDS: disabled people have nothing to fear
- Disabled people protest over cuts
- Osborne exemption on benefit cap
- Incapacity Benefit to be replaced in shake-up: reports
- Students warned against "scare tactics" on personalisation
- Equality chief predicts 50% budget cut
- Cuts threat to public transport
- Disability bodies set to be abolished
- Lib Dem minister warns against local care cuts
- Minister seeks to quell cuts fears
- Lib Dem demo urges social care rethink
- Public back winter fuel extension
- Fears raised over devolved public transport powers
- Tributes follow Jade's early death
- Friend on friends and allies
- Covert probe shows job barriers for youngsters
- Northants closure sparks fears for DPOs
- Government challenged on budget impact
- C4 show branded “beastly”
- Disabled people react to benefits payment delay
- Deaf drama gets air date
- Commission's harassment inquiry welcomed
- Begg hits out at government benefit cuts
- DLA recipients to face medical assessment
- Budget opens door to extra room for carers
- McGuire to co-chair parliamentary group
- Campaigners target MPs on assisted dying
- Concern over Duncan Smith reform stance
- Pistorius and Smyth claim gold while weary Weir founders
- Fear of coalition cuts heads TUC agenda
- Cool welcome for new man at DWP
- Tory leader tackled on schools bias
- Brits’ victory hopes pricked in marathon double puncture
- Thriller mystery: cover star Barr's drama silenced
- Lords ruling sets employment precedent
- Tributes paid to David Morris
- Disabled actor gets Albert Square axe
- Anger as ILF changes threaten independent living
- Paralympics provides change potential, says Shaw
- Charity launches shared surface legal challenge
- Assisted suicide: guidelines strive for neutral tone
- BBC man’s TV killing confession sparks investigation
- MD poster condemned by rights activists
- Openmind closure fear
- Mills planning 'fake' disabilities show
- Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson to join House of Lords
- Fears remain on future of Attendance Allowance
- Channel 4 to broadcast 2012 Paralympics
- Review highlights student finance meltdown
- Government goes big on mental health
- EHRC to launch harassment inquiry
- Paralympic athlete drags himself to plane
- New equality commissioners appointed
- Hospitals failing people with dementia
- Paralympics excluded from free-to-air list
- Swiss could call time on assisted suicide
- GB sign off atop medal chart
- Forecourt chip and PIN concern
- Arts Council cuts bite in south west
- Autism bill awaits royal sign-off
- Councils pay cash following ombudsman ruling
- Simmonds shining light as GB swimmers hit gold seam
- Ombudsman blasts Bury Council neglect
- Disablist abuse for Guardian blogger
- Club toilet attack leaves blind man unconscious
- CONFERENCE: Cameron: Pilkington thugs "vile"
- CONFERENCE: Hague slams Brown’s DDA boast
- CONFERENCE: Harper denies Tory benefit scare tactic
- CONFERENCE: Cameron launches back to work agenda
- Storm over TV show punt
- Pilkington verdict: communication failure major factor
- CONFERENCE: Exclusive - Hope kills DLA threat
- Patients feel “unsafe” on mental health wards
- Leaving town: Welsh report says bad access and attitude drives shoppers away
- CONFERENCE: Scope bucks charities’ negative conference trend
- CONFERENCE: Public transport going nowhere say disabled delegates
- CONFERENCE: Social care needs overhaul say Lib Dems
- CONFERENCE: Equality chief fails to steady Lib Dems on disability
- CONFERENCE: Cable gives pledge on mental health
- CONFERENCE: Lib Dems call for disabled councillors' funding
- Schoolkids need lessons in disability
- Eviction would mean death says disabled woman
- Blue badge database for London
Andy's personal Hell
OK, when did you last encounter a TV or radio show written by and starring the same disabled person?
If you’re in the know, you’ll be jigging up and down with your hand up saying: “Me sir! Me sir!” And gagging to tell me you were tuned into the latest series of Old Harry’s Game, which has just ended on Radio 4.
The shows, also starring Annette Crosby, the former Mrs Meldrew, are predicated on the idea of the actual existence of the biblical hell. Hamilton as Satan clops about on coconut-shell hooves dispensing torment to everyone from Adam and Eve to a pitful of Popes.
Andy has always seemed rather shy about his impairment, but we are on his case, in the nicest possible way.


