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Disability Fail 101

Join host Mel Harrison and various guests as they share stories of the well-meaning but totally missing the mark moments and mishaps surrounding disability.

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2026
Episodes

1. Episode #05 - Moira Mannion
22 mins
Pack your bags because this episode of Disability Fail 101 is taking you on the road! Joining us is the fabulous Moira Mannion, an amazing physiotherapist who's encountered more than her fair share of disability fails while travelling with friends with disability. From bizarre assumptions to jaw-dropping accessibility blunders.
2. Episode #04 Harry Fortey
21 mins
Harry is a disability support worker, specialising in personal training for people living with disability. Blind Mike whinges about NIMBYs living next-door to pubs and music venues.
3. Episode #03 - Emma Payne
26 mins
Emma Payne is a dementia engagement specialist, music therapist, and founder of Happi Hive.
4. Episode #02 - Ronan Soussa
26 mins
Ronan is a passionate disability advocate, and friend of the show. Listeners may also know him from Love On The Spectrum. Plus the debut of Blind Mike's Winge - where he complains, so you don't have to!
5. Episode #01 - Blind Mike (The Oh Yeahs)
26 mins
In the very first episode of DF101, Mel is joined by good friend Blind Mike from the Sydney pop-punk band The Oh Yeahs. As a gigging musician, Mike has no shortage of stories from pubs, clubs, and venues that fail to recognise his blindness, mistaking it for drunkenness or flat out refusing to believe him.