The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast
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The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast
A new 10-part series about the Grenfell Tower fire and why it happened. Missed opportunities, unheeded warnings and state failure to protect its citizens. What a fire in west London that killed 72 people shows us about how Britain works, and doesn't.
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204 The Phase 2 Report and the End of the Inquiry
The Inquiry’s Phase 2 report was released this week, distilling 400 days of evidence and more than three hundred thousand documents. The report conclu...
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Episode 0
In the early hours of the 14th of June 2017, a fire broke out in a tower block in West London. This fire was both a personal tragedy and a national sc...
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 10: The Final Act
As the sun rises, the local council, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea are responsible for helping families try and find their loved ones an...
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 8: The Smoke
When Ed Daffarn opens his door in the early hours of the morning of the 14th of June 2017, he is confronted by a wall of thick acrid smoke.
As t...
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 9: Stay Put
On the top floor of Grenfell Tower, Marcio Gomes and his family are waiting. Outside, the fire has wrapped itself around 3 sides of the building. But...
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 7: The Fire
In the early hours of the 14th June 2017, the bell in North Kensington’s fire station begins to ring. Firefighter David Badillo assumes it is a routin...
Grenfell: Building a Disaster- Ep 6: Value Engineering
When Grenfell resident Ed Daffarn first heard about the multimillion pound refurbishment of the tower, he welcomed it. The estate had, in his view, be...
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 5: Single Point of Failure
Why didn't the civil service act on warnings about combustible building materials?
You’ve probably not heard of Brian Martin but he’s central to...
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 4: Who Gives a Damn
A tale of “deliberate and calculated deceit”.
Beneath the cladding, a layer of insulation surrounded Grenfell Tower. This too was combustible an...
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 3: Bad Behaviour
How manufacturers sold combustible cladding
When Marcio Gomes found out that Grenfell Tower, where he lived, was going to be covered in cladding...
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 2: Building Blocks
How a fire in Scotland in 1999 foretold the fire at Grenfell Tower.
In 1999, a dropped cigarette started a tower block fire in a small town on t...
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Episode 1: Wake Up Call
As the world wakes up to news of a fire in West London, questions start about who’s to blame.
At 8.30am on the morning of the 14th of June 2017...
Introducing Grenfell: Building a Disaster
A new 10-part series about the Grenfell Tower fire and why it happened.
As the public inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower publishes it’s fin...
203 The End of the Hearings
After more than four years, more than three hundred thousand documents, four hundred days of testimony and around £150 million, the Inquiry heard its...
202 Nick Hurd
"I can’t undo the past, but I wanted to be a part of making things better”
While the Inquiry has paused hearing evidence, Kate Lamble...
201 Expert toxicology evidence, and closing statements on the aftermath
Toxicologist Professor David Purser told the Inquiry that the rapid spread of smoke was the principal cause of death, and that burning cladding panels...
200 Closing Statements on testing and regulation
This week the inquiry heard closing statements for Module 6, outlining how combustible materials came to be tested, certified and regulated and ended...
199 Expert Witnesses: Week 2
This week, as we passed the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, two expert witnesses levelled a series of fierce criticisms at the building...
198 Expert Witnesses
This week, the Inquiry moved on from examining the aftermath of the fire and began hearing evidence from a series of experts in fire engineering. Luke...
197 Aftermath of the fire: Central government and the Mayor of London
This week, the Inquiry heard about the confusion, lack of grip and poor communication within Whitehall, as ministers and civil servants dealt with the...
196 Aftermath of the fire: Central government and London Local Authorities
This week, the Inquiry examined how central government responded to the aftermath of the disaster while continuing to hear about London-wide emergency...
195 Aftermath of the fire: The Rest Centres
This week, the Inquiry continued to investigate the events immediately after the fire by digging deeper into what happened at local rest centres which...
194 Aftermath of the fire: The Council: Week 2
This week we heard different views from senior managers as to how the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea coped in the aftermath of the Grenfell T...
193 Aftermath of the fire: The Council and BSRs
The Inquiry continued to hear evidence about the immediate aftermath of the fire. Rebecca Blackburn, a former Contingency Planning Officer for the Roy...
192 Aftermath of the fire
This week, the Inquiry moved on from the technical discussions of the building regulations and the role of central government to focus on the immediat...
191 The Ministers: Week 2
This week, three politicians gave evidence. Eric Pickles, former housing secretary, told the Inquiry that he could not understand how the government’s...
190 Brian Martin and the Ministers
This week, civil servant Brian Martin completed his evidence after more than seven days. In his concluding evidence, he said that there were several o...
189 Brian Martin
This week, senior civil servant Brian Martin continued giving evidence to the Inquiry. As the only person to testify with experience working for both...
188 The Housing Ministry: Week 2
This week, the Inquiry heard from three senior civil servants: Dame Melanie Dawes, the former permanent secretary at the Ministry for Housing, Communi...
187 The Housing Ministry
This week, the Inquiry heard about the work culture in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and how Richard Harral, the Head of T...
186 Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
This week the Inquiry heard from inside Whitehall, as two civil servants, Bob Ledsome and Anthony Burd, gave evidence. It was revealed that the All-Pa...
185 Building Research Establishment & the Government
This week, the Inquiry heard from Debbie Smith, a senior figure in the Building Research Establishment for more than 34 years. She failed to speak up...
184 Building Research Establishment
This week the Inquiry heard that cladding similar to that installed on Grenfell Tower underwent a “catastrophic” fire test 16 years earlier. Sarah Col...
183 BRE, CWCT and UKAS
This week, David Crowder, former Head of Investigation at the Building Research Establishment, told the Inquiry that an investigation into the Lakanal...
182 National House Building Council
This week, the Inquiry heard how the National House Building Council (NHBC) approved Kingspan’s combustible cladding insulation for many years. John L...
181 Modules 5 & 6 Closing Statements: Firefighting
This week we heard closing statements for two modules of the inquiry on firefighting. Lawyers for the London Fire Brigade (LFB) and those representing...
180 National House Building Council and LABC
This week the Inquiry questioned representatives from both the National House Building Council and Local Authority Building Control about the steps th...
179 Module 6 Opening Statements and LABC
This week the Inquiry turned its attention to how building regulations were set and combustible materials tested and certified. Lawyers for the bereav...
178 London Fire Brigade: Week 7
Andy Roe, Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, made a series of frank admissions this week. He said the LFB was aware of every single problem that...
177 London Fire Brigade: Dany Cotton
This week evidence was presented by former London Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton, who previously told the Inquiry that the LFB could not have p...