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
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
Society
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...
Society
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...
Society
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...
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
- 3 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
