Community internet radio station, Blaze FM, will be recording an exclusive reading of a new play script by disability rights activitist and play-wright Bob Williams-Findlay at an event at MAC in Edgbaston this Friday.
The event celebrates International Day of Disabled People which takes place every year on December 3rd, but this year there is the added dimension of the very first UK Disability History Month, giving the event a disability history focus.
Funded by Birmingham City Council, the event at MAC kicks off at 2pm and Bob's play will follow opening speeches including Councillor Rudge of the Equalities section of the Council and a presentation by Pete Millington who authored Forward: The History of Birmingham Disability Resource Centre earlier this year.
Bob's play is based on research he has been conducting around the launch of the poppy appeal after the Great War (1914-1918) and how the idea provided work for disabled WW1 veterans in the 1920s.
Other presnetations will be given and in the evening their will be a keynote speech by Richard Rieser who is the national organiser of the UK Disability History Month.
Blaze FM is a new internet based community radio station at http://www.blazefm.co.uk/
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