Carousel Radio

“A podcast that platforms voices we genuinely feel have been filtered out of UK media. Refreshing and totally unpredictable, this is a highly original listen.” - British Podcast Awards Judging Panel

One of the only places on the radio where you can hear the creative voice of people with a learning disability.

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Carousel Radio is an award-winning spoken-word radio show and podcast produced and presented entirely by learning disabled people. It reaches listeners in over 50 countries and has 500+ subscribers. Made monthly by the production team of Fran Reynolds, Claire Offley and Davot Irving each show is a lively mix of news, features and audio showcasing the learning disabled creative community from the UK and abroad.

Carousel Radio is a partnership with Radio Reverb (97.2FM in Brighton, DAB and online) and airs at 2pm on the first Sunday of each month and is repeated throughout the following week.

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Carousel Radio won Silver in The Lovie Awards 2020, Arts and Entertainment Podcast category, judged by a panel including Stephen Fry. The Lovie Awards honour the best of the European internet.

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n 2018 it won Gold at the British Podcast Awards in the Represent category, supported by Twitter. Fran and Davot from the team went to London to collect the award. They said: “We are very happy and excited to have won! We’d like to thank all the listeners of Carousel Radio”.

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Carousel Radio: The Ice Fingers of Death

For the final Carousel Radio show of the season, the Oska Bright team updates us as they prepare for another film festival, and there is music from the Carousel Chorus and Carousel Anthem Musicians. We hear sea-themed poems in ‘You, Me & The Sea’, audio diaries about living independently for the first time in 'Sounds Like My Life', and ideas for changing the country from St. John's College in Brighton in 'When I'm Prime Minister'.

Meet the team

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Davot Irving

What do you like listening to on the radio?

“I listen to the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. They tell jokes, have a laugh, people can win money in a quiz and they have pop people on as special guests.”

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Jason O'Neill

What do you like listening to on the radio?

"I like listening to Magic. I like listening to the music on it and it just makes me laugh."

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Fran Reynolds

What do you like listening to on the radio?

“Frankly it’s got to be Carousel Radio as I love doing it every month on a Friday at home or in Carousel. But apart from that, my favourite radio show is Ken Bruce. I only listen to Pop Master.”

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Claire Offley

What do you like listening to on the radio?

“I listen to Paul Miller on BBC Radio Sussex. He plays Pop music, listeners ring in with jokes and he does a quiz.”

Fran’s Radio Story

Hear all about the things Fran has done with Carousel Radio over the years.

 

Got a story, poem or play you’d like to share?

We’re looking for creative people with a learning disability to send us things that we can put in the radio show, things like poems, short stories, radio plays and sound art. If you’ve got something you’d like to share, get in touch.