SINCE he can remember, Wills Aston has always dreamed of a career in radio.

Wills has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, but he realised that being on the radio, his disabilities didn’t matter.

“I went to an open day at BBC Radio Solent and I realised on the radio you can be yourself,” he said.

“There’s no one there to judge you. It’s just your voice. I have been passionate about it ever since.”

However, despite his determination to succeed in the industry and securing several work experience placements, the former Totton College student said opportunities for disabled people were very slim.

“A lot of people have said to me from an early age, have you thought of another career? Not radio? They said I can’t do things, but this is what I want to do. I am going to prove people wrong.”

But that insult only spurred him on to prove despite his physical disabilities, there isn’t anything he cannot do.

Instead, the 20-year-old set up his own online radio station, Ability, with the help of his dad, Bill, which he runs in his studio at home in West Wellow.

But Wills, who has a year’s experience with Winchester Hospital Radio and two years of studying web design in evening classes under his belt, didn’t stop there.

He joined forces with Southampton community radio station, Voice FM, and tomorrow there will be a new show Ability on Voice.

Produced and presented by Hampshire people with disabilities, it will provide information on events and activities as well as highlight issues affecting disabled people.

Jodie Newman, from Voice FM, explained: “We want to educate people on disability and having Spina Bifida myself I feel that a lack of education is where most discrimination comes from.

"The more people know about different disabilities, the less bullying.

“We want to show people that their disability doesn’t mean they can’t have a fun life and do the things they want to do.

“We don’t want to focus on the negative, but the positive.”

Stuart Aitkenhead and Hollie Williams who both have learning difficulties and met at the Fareham-based disabled dating and friendship charity, Stars in the Sky, made famous in The Undateables have been named as presenters.

Hollie, 26, who has autism, said: “I’ve wanted to work since I left college and this has given me a push to get up, get showered, put my make-up on!

"I feel so much better knowing I have something to do and I’ve been really proud of that. It’s given me confidence in myself.

“People only see what’s on the surface, they don’t look deeper than that.”

Guests lined up for the show include disabled musicians, a charity that arranges activity days for disabled people and disabled dating and friendship charity Stars in the Sky.

The team also plan to run radio workshops for disability groups in the area.

Wills, said: “When you are disabled a lot of people say you can’t do things, but it makes you want to do it even more.

“If you have a disability, don’t let it hold you back in anything you do.”