Series 1, Episode 3 - Will
Will, is campaigning to become the disabled community's answer to Barack Obama. But on the island, the only person who is happy to listen to him banging on about disability politics is Dan, and he's starting to lose interest.
Further details
On the island, Will bangs on about disability politics, but everyone quickly loses interest. It was the same story at home - ignored by most people, apart from his son Jake and he doesn't count. Right now the food is running out for the Cast Offs, but Will is insistent that they shouldn't ask for help. This is about proving a point that disabled people don't need assistance. Why can't the others agree with him? Elsewhere, romance may be blossoming between Dan and Carrie.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 1st December 2009
- Time
- 11:05pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
Press
This creditable series has achieved what it set out to do - to present the lives of disabled people in a way that is both involving and unpatronising, its unidealised characters strong, rounded, feisty and wartsy, rather than mere victims or ciphers. Tonight, the focus is on Will, the thalidomide geezer, who is a political activist and keep-fit fanatic with just a slight hint of pain in the backside about him. And he has one of the best lines in the series thus far, regarding Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot: "the blacking up of the 21st century".
David Stubbs, The Guardian, 1st December 2009
