Woman's Hour - 02/06/2009

With Jane Garvey. Bryony Lavery is an award-winning playwright whose best-known work, Frozen, is about a mother, a paedophile and a psychiatrist bound together by the disappearance of a 10-year-old girl. In her new play, Kursk, she places the audience alongside the actors on the set of a Cold War nuclear submarine. She talks to Jane about how the play came about. Also on the programme, Elizabeth Norman, the only woman to work on the secretive advance planning team for D-Day, talks about being part of the team which prepared for that historic day, as its 65th anniversary approaches. Families with disabled children say they want to live ordinary lives, but most do not feel accepted by their communities; and, according to a new report, half of them still lack access to what they see as vital support services. How different is life for families with disabled children compared with 30 years ago and why, given the advances that have been made, are they still facing such profound obstacles? Jane discusses these issues with Tara Flood, Director of the Alliance for Inclusive Education, and Srabani Sen, chief executive of Contact A Family. Including drama: Writing the Century 9.