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PODCAST

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast!

My Podcast is about raising positive awareness of people who have a learning disability like me to help change society attitudes. All of my Views are my own & Not linked to my employer.

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All Episodes

01:07:49

Mark Cutter The Man in the Purple Hat

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/05/10

I chatted with my friend Mark Cutter aka The Man in the Purple Hat about our own lived experiences of having a disability, the differences between learning difficulty and learning disability, the medical model of learning disability & the social model of disability and what change we can make when we lobby for change. We also talked about our own work careers and what we do now and chatted about my Podcast too!

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00:53:06

A chat with the actress Sally Phillips!

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/04/11

For this episode of my Podcast, I am joined for a chat by my lovely friend and actress Sally Phillips. She is currently starring in a wonderful new BBC Sitcom show called Austin which you can now watch on BBC I-Player!We chatted about the recent final Bridget Jones Movie Mad About the Boy & her character Shazza. We also chatted about the world of learning disability and why we need to see more people with a learning disability being seen positively in the media like TV and film & she talked

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00:38:45

Talking Music with British Music Producer Steve...

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/04/09

I chatted to Steve Lillywhite CBE who is a British Music Producer about his career working in the music industry as a music producer. He told me about when he worked with u2 on their singles and albums and how he got to work with other bands like The Rolling stones. I also told him about why I started my Podcast!

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00:24:30

being chatty with Natty and Hayley Newman!

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/04/09

For this episode, I chatted with my lovely friend Hayley Newman & her wonderful daughter Natty who has Downs Syndrome. They chatted with me about their relationship as mum and daughter, we chatted about how important it is to see people with a disabiliy in the media like Natty and myself. We also talked about our favourite ice-cream flavours, chatted about the film Frozen and our favorite colours!

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00:26:48

being a mum! - Shelley Simmonds

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/04/08

I chatted to my friend Shelley Simmonds about becoming a mum to her son Fraser who has a disability. we also talked abut why it is important that we have more role models in the media who have a disability and we talked about disability issues!

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00:27:49

Being a Mum with Claire Scadden! - Mothers Day!

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/03/30

Happy Mother's day to all the mums out there today!I chatted with my lovely school mate Claire Scadden who is a lovely mum to Grace who was born with a pysical disability. Claire shared her pregnancy story with me and the good support she has a mum!

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01:03:20

Talking Media with Josh Merritt - Neurodivergent...

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/03/26

I chatted with Josh all about his career as a neurodivergent Screen Writer and abut how TV shows and dramas should hire more actors in front of the camera and behind the camera. We also talked about Disability and the importance of Representation!

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00:38:05

Chatting LD Nurses with Consultant LD Nurse Jim Blair!

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/03/20

I chatted with Consultant Learning Disability Nurse Jim Blair about the importance of the role that learning disability nurses do when they are supporting people with a learning disability with their healthcare in hospitals. We chatted about hospital passports & being on the learning disability register with your GP and why it's important for people with a learning disability to be on it. We also chatted about our Patron roles with the amazing inclusive dance charity Dance Syndrome.

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00:26:49

A mum chat with Michaella Edwards!

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/03/16

I chatted with my friend Michaella who is a mum and i asked her, What does being a mum mean to you?She told me her experiences of becoming a mum , we also chatted about people with a disability, and my friendship with her daughter!

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00:28:27

International Women's Day!

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/03/08

Check out this brand new episode of my Podcast!it's all about International Women's Day and i am joined for a chat by my lovely friend Kasia who i met through my job. we talked about what it means to be women and we talked about what international women's day means to us and we talked about some of the amazing women who we admire in our lives!

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00:57:01

Sam Carlisle - Campaigner and Journalist

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/03/07

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.

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00:11:14

disability campaigner Thomas Ramsey

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/03/06

Chat with disability campaigner Thomas Ramsey.

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00:26:48

Helen Shiers - Mum & Co-Founder of charity PSDS

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/03/06

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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00:42:45

Journalist Camilla Tominey!

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/02/10

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!

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00:56:47

Denise & Steffan from 2024 Britains Got Talent -...

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/02/05

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!

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00:54:58

Kate Spicer - Journalist & film maker - episode 99

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/02/04

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

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00:24:30

Designer Masato Jones - Ep 98

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/02/04

I chatted to the designer and maker Masato Jones about his world of work in design and making and i told him about learning disability and we talked about learning disability and about employment and attitudes!

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00:40:35

BBC REPORTER Ricky Boleto - episode 97

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/02/04

I chatted with bbc reporter Ricky Boleto about our work careers, disability media representation and how important it is!

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00:30:29

Classic FM Presenter and writer Joanna Gosling!

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/01/19

I chatted with the Classic FM Presenter and Writer and mediator Joanna Gosling. we talked about how we met through a TV interview opportunity, learning disability, our work jobs, our careers and about our favourite pieces of classical music and why we liked them!

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00:31:45

Chat with Jon Connell - Broadcaster & Writer!

Ciara"s Pink Sparkle Podcast! ·

2025/01/15

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!

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