That Gaby Roslin Podcast: Reasons To Be Joyful - Show n Tell with Rosie Jones

Episode Date: June 29, 2023

Comedian and author Rosie Jones reveals the object that brings her joy...and why she looks at it every day! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And welcome to our special bonus episode of reasons to be joyful. This is our show and tell episode. We ask every guest to bring in an object that brings them joy. Or if they can't physically bring it in, we ask them to take a photo. If you want to see the objects from today's episode, or all our episodes, you can find photos and videos on my Instagram. At Gabby Roslyn. Enjoy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is our extra slice. This is our show and tell. This is our something that brings you joy. And you've got your phone out and you're going to show me a photo. I am slightly scared. Is it just going to be a to topless photo? Because you like to flash.

Let's be honest. What is it going to be? I, it could bring a photo on my own teeth. Yeah, you see, I do that's where you might go. Because they do bring me joy. But I thought. I thought I go a little more high back and I think we talked a lot about the difference that I hope to bring in terms of disability representation. but in order for me to do that

I like to acknowledge the people before me. So the photo is like that t-shirt so it's a framed t-shirt in my hallway and it says pitch on pitty and this was an original

T-shirt won in the 1980's protest in order to get the disability discrimination

act in place which were brought in 1995 when I was five. Because before 95, a building didn't need to have disabled toilets. That's so shocking, that's so recent. Yeah. We are J users couldn't get on public transport.

Employers could not give a disabled person a job because of a disability and a school didn't need to accept a disabled child. shocking, shocking. And before, I don't know if you remember, but in the 80s, there was something called an ITB telephone. Yes. Where ITV for 24 hours would campaign to get money for, quote, disabled people.

And the pictures and their videos would always be disabled people in need. So this was where Pitch on Pity came from because that's. Thousands of disabled people went to ITV and said, don't give us pity. We don't need you to feel sorry from me. We need rights. We need to be independent. So that T-shirt brings me.

joy every day because of the fight that those disabled people did in order. Because of that fight I was able to go to mainstream school, I was able to go to university, I was able to go to university. I was able to get a job in London and I was able to live an independent full life. So that T-shirt, well, yeah, it brings me jobs, but it brings me everything. Thank you, Rosie.

Thank you.