Victoria Brignell

Victoria Brignell

Victoria Brignell works as a radio producer with the BBC. After reading classics at Downing College, Cambridge, she undertook journalism training at Cardiff University. She lives in West London and is 30 years old and is a tetraplegic wheelchair-user.

Articles by Victoria Brignell

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Voice

  • 05 May 2009

Victoria Brignell on Chelmsford, the power of radio and a particularly limiting aspect of her disability

Penfriend

  • 30 March 2009

How a bond formed at 13 with an Australian penfriend led Victoria Brignell to embark on a deception that has lasted two decades

Assisted death 2

  • 20 February 2009

Helping people who are suddenly physically disabled so they avoid despair and learn to adjust and enjoy life might prevent tragedies like the case of Daniel James

Assisted death

  • 30 January 2009

The tragic death by assisted suicide of a young rugby player who chose to die because he'd been rendered paralysed raises all sorts of difficult ethical issues

Dangerous disabled people III

  • 08 January 2009
  • 3 comments

Sinners tend to be more interesting than saints. Wickedness and wrongdoing seem to fascinate more than good deeds and gallantry, so instead of disabled role models...

Dangerous disabled people II

  • 07 January 2009
  • 3 comments

Sinners tend to be more interesting than saints. Wickedness and wrongdoing seem to fascinate more than good deeds and gallantry, so instead of disabled role models...

Dangerous disabled people I

  • 06 January 2009
  • 3 comments

Sinners tend to be more interesting than saints. Wickedness and wrongdoing seem to fascinate more than good deeds and gallantry, so instead of disabled role models...

A sitting target

  • 10 November 2008

It's estimated that 65 million people worldwide require a wheelchair but more than 20 million of them do not own one which can mean no school or participate fully in lfie

Wheelchairs I

  • 07 October 2008
  • 2 comments

The perils of the electric wheelchair have left Victoria Brignell stranded on more than one occasion. Here she talks us the highs and lows of her different sets of wheels

Sleeping

  • 08 September 2008
  • 1 comment

'I dreamt that I saw Iain Duncan Smith riding on an ostrich through Parliament Square. Make of that what you will.' Victoria Brignell on insomnia and other matters...

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

Vote!

Will China rule the world?

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