A Life Without Limits

A Life Without Limits by Sir Bert Massie Audiobook
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Product Info

Sounded ID: 9781662159312

ISBN: 9781662159312

Publication Date: December 02, 2020

Publisher: Mereo Books

Language: English

Author Name: Sir Bert Massie

Narrator Name: Paul Broughton

Studio Narrated Audiobook 7 hrs 46 mins | BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY | People with Disabilities

A Life Without Limits

Publisher
Mereo Books
Narrator
Paul Broughton

Studio Narrated Audiobook

This audiobook is a traditionally narrated work produced in a studio with a live voice actor and contains no content generated using Voice Replica technologies or synthetic narration.

As a boy, severely disabled after contracting polio as a baby in working class Liverpool, Bert Massie found himself wondering why disabled people were expected to adapt to the world around them, and not the other way round. In his teens, he began to campaign for rights for disabled people, and having battled his way through prejudice and the education system to become a Bachelor of Arts and a qualified social worker, he became a prominent figure in the fight for fair treatment for disabled people leading to the ground breaking Disability Discrimination Act. He went on to serve as Chairman of t...

As a boy, severely disabled after contracting polio as a baby in working class Liverpool, Bert Massie found himself wondering why disabled people were expected to adapt to the world around them, and not the other way round. In his teens, he began to campaign for rights for disabled people, and having battled his way through prejudice and the education system to become a Bachelor of Arts and a qualified social worker, he became a prominent figure in the fight for fair treatment for disabled people leading to the ground breaking Disability Discrimination Act. He went on to serve as Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission and became a founding commissioner of the subsequent Equality and Human Rights Commission. His extraordinary achievements were recognised by the award of an OBE, then a CBE and finally, in 2007, a knighthood. This is his remarkable and engaging story, completed by his wife Maureen and friends after his death in October 2017.

Chapters

# Title Duration
1. 001 Title and Credits

0 mins 16 secs

2. Chapter 1 Polio Strikes

24 mins 37 secs

3. Chapter 2 Greenbank

55 mins 15 secs

4. Chapter 3 Expanding Horizons

40 mins 57 secs

5. Chapter 4 Beyond School

37 mins 54 secs

6. Chapter 5 Early Jobs

22 mins 38 secs

7. Chapter 6 Embrionic Activist

50 mins 20 secs

8. Chapter 7 The Semi-Detached Activist

20 mins 07 secs

9. Chapter 8 Through the Beam of RADAR

42 mins 31 secs

10. Chapter 9 The Disability Rights Commission Lives!

47 mins 56 secs

11. Chapter 10 Inside the Equality and Human Rights Commission

1 hr 05 mins

12. Chapter 11 Reflections

33 mins 54 secs

13. Chapter 12 No Such Thing As Retirement

20 mins 31 secs

14. 018 Postscript

1 mins 38 secs

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