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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Society
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
Society
Wheelchairs I
- 07 October 2008
- 3 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
Society
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...
Sport
Oh dear it's the Paralympics
- 08 August 2008
- 8 comments
As the most glittering festival of disability sport approaches, I'm faced with my usual dilemma: to watch or not to watch? Victoria Brignell struggles with an antipathy towards sport...
Asia
Where there is art there is hope
- 01 July 2008
How the disabled - many of them victims of a long-running and bloody conflict - are helping bridge the ethnic divide in Sri Lanka against a background of escalating violence
World Affairs
A miracle convention for the disabled?
- 03 June 2008
- 2 comments
Fine words without actions are meaningless but actions usually only come about after fine words have been written - Victoria Brignell celebrates a new UN convention
Life & Society
Sliding doors
- 06 May 2008
- 2 comments
How much being disabled has altered the course of a life - Victoria Brignell ponders whether being in a wheelchair has actually made all that much difference...
Society
Ancient world
- 07 April 2008
- 5 comments
Smeared in mustard, paraded naked - the curious and often cruel treatment of disabled people in Ancient Rome, Sparta and Greece
Ideas
Anniversary
- 05 March 2008
- 4 comments
Victoria Brignell celebrates her silver disability anniversary and explains why she wants to celebrate her 25 years as a "Crip."
Society
Architectural apartheid
- 11 February 2008
- 2 comments
With a combination of careful thought, determination and technical ingenuity, any building can be made accessible
