The life of Bill Hargreaves

Can You Manage Stares? is available as a Kindle e-book!

When Bill Hargreaves was born in Australia in 1919, he weighed just two and a half pounds. His parents were told that, because he had cerebral palsy, he would ''never walk or work or wed''. Bill's remarkable life defied the doctor's diagnosis. Bill became a campaigner for disabled people's right to work. It was the start of his pioneering work, which was to open up employment, recreation and travel to vast numbers of disabled people both in this country and many others around the world.

Download the life of Scope founding member Bill Hargreaves, 'Can you manage stares?' (PDF document, 2.61MB)

Listen to the audiobook by clicking the chapter headings (links open new windows) below or download them (large MP3 files, sizes vary):

1. The pint pot kid, 1920
   (MP3 download, 15.79MB)
2. Mother country, 1930
   (MP3 download, 5.07MB)
3. The right sort of tingle, 1936-39
   (MP3 download, 13.53MB)
4. A couple of bombshells, 1939-41
   (MP3 download, 4.96MB)
5. Working and wedding, 1942-1952
   (MP3 download, 8.81MB)
6. National Spastics Society, 1952-57
   (MP3 download, 9.66MB)
7. Man of industry, 1957-62
   (MP3 download, 15.79MB)
8. 1962 and all that
   (MP3 download, 17.33MB)
9. An L of a life, 1966
   (MP3 download, 7.72MB)
10. Newfoundland, 1968
    (MP3 download, 5.79MB)
11. Holidays, 1974
    (MP3 download, 6.28MB)
12. Japan, 1978
    (MP3 download, 4.77MB)
13. Far from retiring, 1979-94
    (MP3 download, 10.41MB)
14. Scope, 1994
    (MP3 download, 5.94MB)