The Dunblane Massacre
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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March 13, 1996. The worst mass shooting in British history leads to the private ownership of most handguns being banned. This episode originally aired in 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | A listener note, this episode contains references to a mass school shooting. |
| 0:04.3 | It may not be suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:16.5 | It's July 7, 2013 at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, England. On center court, |
| 0:23.6 | 26-year-old tennis player Andy Murray wipes his face with a towel, bouncing the ball off the grass |
| 0:28.9 | and preparing to serve. It's something Andy has done millions of times in his career, but never with as |
| 0:34.9 | much at stake. Andy is in the final of the Wimbledon men's singles |
| 0:39.1 | competition. A player on the other side of the net is the top seed and world number one |
| 0:44.1 | Novak Djokovic. But Andy has beaten the odds and taken a lead. He's two sets up, and if this |
| 0:49.9 | serve goes his way, Andy will write his name into the record books as the first British player |
| 0:55.0 | to win the title for 77 years. Andy hits a powerful serve. Novak just manages to return the ball, |
| 1:03.1 | but it's a slow, uncontrolled looping shot back over the net. Responding quickly, Andy hits a powerful |
| 1:09.0 | forehand to Novak's weaker backhand, |
| 1:12.0 | and Novak hits the ball into the net. |
| 1:15.0 | Andy drops his racket and covers his face in disbelief. |
| 1:18.6 | He's won. |
| 1:19.7 | The spectators roar as Andy's emotions get the better of him, |
| 1:22.9 | and he waves to his ecstatic family in the crowd. |
| 1:25.9 | This is the moment Andy has been working toward all his career, all his life, ever since he |
| 1:31.1 | first picked up a tennis racket as a child, growing up in the small Scottish town of Dunblane. |
| 1:39.4 | Andy Murray's Wimbledon title sparks joy across Britain. |
| 1:43.4 | He'll win a host of awards. Television specials |
| 1:46.0 | will mark his victory, and he'll even be knighted by the Queen. But the celebrations will be |
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