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I know what it is to crawl

Tom Shakespeare talks of his frustration that people who use wheelchairs are still, at times, forced into situations where they have to crawl.

In the week that one of Britain's most famous Paralympians Tanni Grey-Thompson was forced to crawl off a train, Tom Shakespeare describes his encounters with crawling.

'Don't get me wrong,' Tom says, I am not against crawling.' His holidays, he says, involve a lot of crawling: in Egypt to visit the apartment of the poet Constantine Cavafy or in Italy to see the childhood home of the communist revolutionary, Antonio Gramsci.

But in day to day life, Tom argues, 'crawling is no way for adults to go about their business.'

Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Tom Bigwood

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9 minutes

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Sun 1 Sep 2024 08:48

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  • Fri 30 Aug 2024 20:50
  • Sun 1 Sep 2024 08:48

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