We Know It Hurts

by Ouch Team

Ouch can today exclusively reveal the schedules for the new disability season starting in Easter week on the BBC.

The season is to be called "We know it hurts", and features a selection of specially-made groundbreaking and sensititve dramas and documentaries about the disabled.

Here is a sample of what you can expect to see coming to a TV screen near you - appropriately starting on Good Friday (18 April).

7.00pm - We Know It Hurts

Gaby Roslin and a host of stars kick off the season and give you those all important pledge line numbers. Get your credit cards ready and find out how you can help.

7.30pm - Tomorrow's World Special

The TW team bring you a selection of new equipment that will help the disabled, including: a barbecue for the blind and a specially adapted wheelchair whose wheels turn to legs when static. Plus, Philipa Forrester reports from a specially adapted hotel for people with Tourettes.

8.00pm - EastEnders Special

(i.e. not a normal episode)
A bent-over stranger arrives on the Square, his story is played out and he waves goodbye to the locals by 8.29pm

8.30pm - Walking with Cripples

A groundbreaking new interactive series where we see computer-generated disabled people going about their everyday lives. (Hit the red button on your remote control and see how the realistic limping and dribbling was created with help from specially trained actors).

9.00pm - I Can Move Any Mountain

A sensitive story shot sensitively by a sensitive film-maker. We follow three disabled people on a journey to understand their plight. Courageous double amputee Kerry wants to climb a mountain to show that nothing is a barrier for her. We send plucky tetraplegic Paula swimming with dolphins in hope of a cure. And we follow brave Barry as he comes to terms with having lost his sense of taste.

9.50pm - MiracleWatch

Our cameras return live to Lourdes for the final time this week to catch up with Carol Smillie as she waves goodbye to the jumbulance carrying 20 handicapped kiddies who we've been following over the past five days. It's the moment of truth - have any of them been cured? And has the statue of Mary cried blood again tonight?

10.00pm - The Ten O'Clock News

With Huw Edwards in London, and Peter White in Disneyland.

10.25pm - Regional News

Including the happy story of handicapped child Jamie Thompson, whose local pub raised £500 for a specially adapted space-hopper.

10.35pm - Mine's a Red Bull and Vodka, Please

Disabled people are just as normal as everyone else. We meet up with John, Simon, Cheryl and Susie, who like to go out and enjoy themselves despite their disabilities.

11.10pm - We Made This About Them

Provocative and challenging, this is a film about determined people who against all odds dare to make the same choices the rest of us take for granted.

Did you get the joke?
Just in case you were wondering, this page was posted to the Ouch site on April 1, 2003. That's right, it was an April Fool's joke. Ooh, aren't we awful?!

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