Dunblane 30 years on, Catfishing, Forgetting birthdays
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Dunblane massacre on Friday, presenter Anita Rani speaks to three women whose lives changed for ever that day; Melanie Reid, a journalist who was one of the first at the scene in Dunblane that morning, Rosemary Hunter, one of three women leaders of The Snowdrop Campaign that changed UK gun laws and Anna Hall, who grew up in Dunblane and is the director of a Channel 4 documentary about the shootings, The Dunblane Tapes.
How would you feel if everyone in your household forgot your birthday? After a woman's social media post saying her family had forgotten hers went viral, Anita talks to the author Poorna Bell and the journalist Nell Frizzell about whether forgetting a spouse's birthday is simply a careless moment or the sign of something deeper.
Catfishing is the act of creating a fake online persona to deceive others for romantic, financial, or malicious reasons. This happened to 19-year old Sasha-Jay Davies, from Aberdare in Wales who for almost four years has been accused of leading men on, arranging to meet them and not showing up, and been harassed by complete strangers, all because someone else has been using her photos without permission on social media. BBC Wales reporter Eleri Griffiths has been covering the story and joins us along with Reagan Brien, a solicitor at Cohen Davis who has worked on similar cases.
New research carried out by the University of California in the US has revealed that a blood test can detect dementia in women, years before they have symptoms. Dr Sheona Scales, director of research at Alzheimer’s Research UK, explains the research findings and what it could potentially mean for women's dementia diagnosis in the future.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt
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| 1:38.1 | Now, tomorrow marks 30 years since the Dunblane massacre |
| 1:41.9 | when 16 primary children aged 5 to 6 and their teacher were murdered |
| 1:47.4 | in a school shooting in Scotland. It was a shocking, horrifying events and one that led to our gun laws |
| 1:54.2 | being changed forever. A new documentary called The Dunblane Tapes takes us back to tell the story |
| 1:59.9 | through the eyes of the people involved |
| 2:01.7 | parents, journalists, campaigners, some of whom I'll be speaking to shortly. Also, new research has |
| 2:08.9 | shown that a blood test can detect dementia in women years before they have symptoms. We'll be |
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