# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rachael-bland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:12:44.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rachael-bland"
name: "Rachael Bland"
slug: "rachael-bland"
description: "Rachael Rebecca Bland was a British journalist and presenter from Cardiff, Wales. She worked for BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC World News and BBC North West Tonight. She was known for her podcast, You, Me and the Big C, which was broadcast while she was ill with breast cancer, and in which she discussed issues and treatment of the disease. In the final months of her life she wrote a memoir, For Freddie, which was published posthumously early the following year."
tagline: "Welsh journalist and presenter"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Rachael_Bland_2018.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1978-01-21"
deathDate: "2018-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.827576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 236
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    title: "Rachael Bland"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump