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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Physical challenges

  • 05 April 2007

Being disabled hardly keeps many people from beating records, engaging in extreme sports and completing other equally notable feats

Venerate me and I'll run you over

  • 13 March 2007

Victoria muses about the treatment of disabled people in 17th century Spain as recorded by the artist Velazquez and draws comparison with the present day

Air travel

  • 21 February 2007

How the environment has benefited from Brignell's Rule

A load of old cobbles

  • 25 January 2007

How Victoria came to know every single bump in Cambridge

Holocaust

  • 12 January 2007

Victoria pays tribute to the 200,000 disabled slaughtered by the Nazis

Who do you think I am?

  • 08 December 2006
  • 1 comment

Our latter day Anthony Blunt examines her double life

How dare I say 'crip'?

  • 06 November 2006
  • 1 comment

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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Will Baroness Ashton be an effective EU foreign minister?

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