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The program was originally broadcast in 2009.

Music My castaway this week is Brian Ricks.

His transformation from the man who dropped his trousers for laughs to a groundbreaking campaigner for disability rights is surely unique. He was driven to call a halt

to his first career as one of the most successful actor-managers of all time in pursuit of altering

legislation and attitudes towards disability. The sharp change of direction driven by deeply

personal experience. His first child Shelley was born with Down syndrome. It has of course been

Lord Ricks for 17 years now. It is a very long time since you made your living as an actor.

Does that seem like somebody else's life now?

I suppose it does to a certain extent, although I still do one-night stands occasionally,

A for myself and B for Mencaf. The first half of the show is a theatre, television, all the rest of it.

And the second half is Mencap and the House of Lords. And I try and get laughs in both halves,

which I do succeed in doing.

And it's called a pier around Whitehall.

And something of the farce still in there.

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