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Two bits of disability related ´óÏó´«Ã½ reporting caught my attention this week.

On Monday, an item aired on Radio 4's Today programme and subsequently elsewhere on the ´óÏó´«Ã½, about security correspondent, Frank Gardner's trip to the Norwegian Arctic. According to the news website, he "swapped his wheelchair for a snow mobile", to visit Walking with the Wounded, a group of disabled soldiers who have just launched an attempt to make it to the North Poll. Here's a

This morning, also on Radio 4's Today programme, Sarah Montague interviewed blind musicians Amadou et Mariam. They are one of the African bands to be chosen to play at a concert organised to celebrate the start of the World cup. Listen to the interview and as an added bonus, here's what happened when I interviewed the Mali couple for Ouch's 13 Questions feature.