

Ciara's Pink Sparkle Podcast!
Ciara Lawrence
My Podcast is about raising awareness of people who have a learning disability like me to help challenge attitudes. All of my views are my own. Not linked to my employer.
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Mar 7, 2025 • 57min
Sam Carlisle!
I chat with the Campaigner and Journalist Sam Carlisle about becoming a mum to her daughter Elvi who has a disability, we chatted about our work careers and how we have worked together in the past, we chatted about disability representation in the media and also about attitudes and stigma faced by people with a disability and public attitudes.

Mar 6, 2025 • 27min
Helen Shiers Charity PSDS!
I chatted to my friend Helen Shiers. Helen is a wonderful Mum to her daughter Thea who has Down's syndrome. She shared with me about her experiences of becoming a mum and about her experience of being a mum to Thea and we talked parenting and disability representation and we talked about disability and media. She is also a Co-Founder of a wonderful charity called PSDS which aims to support families who have children who have Downs Syndrome. website - https://www.psds.info/

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Feb 10, 2025 • 43min
Journalist Camilla Tominey!
I chatted with the journalist Camilla Tominey about, our work careers, The recent Traitors series and disability media press representation and both of our Podcasts and learning disability and how we have both met some of the members of the Royal Family!

Feb 5, 2025 • 57min
Denise & Stefan 2024 BGT
Denise and Steffan from the 2024 series of Britain's Got Talent! Episode 100! Denise and Steffan from the 2024 series of Britain's Got Talent chatted with me about what it was like to be on the show, they talked about their lived experience of having visual impairments and we chatted about the importance of seeing people with a disability and conditions on TV shows as role models and they talked future plans too!

Feb 4, 2025 • 55min
Kate Spicer
I chatted with the journalist and film maker Kate Spicer.
Kate has a brother called Tom who has a learning disability and she made a film with him called Mission to Lars as it was his dream to go and meet Lars from the band Metallica!
We talked about the film and about disability and media representation and about our work careers!
link to film : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYeVMYPufxg

Feb 4, 2025 • 41min
Presenter Ricky Boleto!
I chatted with bbc reporter Ricky Boleto about our work careers, disability media representation and how important it is!

Jan 15, 2025 • 32min
Jon Connell!
Chat with Broadcaster and writer Jon Connell. We chatted about why we both love the TV show The Masked Singer, the fun of guessing the celebrities who are masked and who we have guessed so far on the show and we talked about media representation and about our work careers!

Dec 17, 2024 • 32min
Pat Carty Arts Journalist
My chat with Arts Journalist Pat Carty- we talked Dublin, u2, media representation & our careers!

Dec 12, 2024 • 33min
Mental Health Foundation
Mark Rowland & I talked about why mental health is so important to talk about and he shared the story with me of how his own brother took his own life and how he wanted to work for an organisation that supports people with their mental health

Dec 11, 2024 • 32min
Marcus - Andy & The Odd Socks!
Chat with the presenter and model Marcus Ramtohul!
https://www.marcusramtohul.com/


