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The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast

A new 10-part series about the Grenfell Tower fire and why it happened.

Radio,216 episodes

Episodes

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204 The Phase 2 Report and the End of the Inquiry
“Decades of failure”, “systematic dishonesty” and “incompetence”
06 Sep 2024,44 mins
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Episode 0
What a fire in West London that killed 72 people shows about how Britain works and doesn’t
06 Sep 2024,2 mins
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 10: The Final Act
What happened after the fire?
15 mins
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 9: Stay Put
The story of the night - part 3
16 mins
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 8: The Smoke
The story of the night - part 2
14 mins
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 7: The Fire
The story of the night - part 1
14 mins
Grenfell: Building a Disaster- Ep 6: Value Engineering
The refurbishment - cost-cutting and a race to the bottom in the construction industry
15 mins
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 5: Single Point of Failure
The government - why didn’t civil servants act on warnings about dangerous cladding?
14 mins
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 4: Who Gives a Damn
The insulation - a tale of “deliberate and calculated deceit”
17 mins
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 3: Bad Behaviour
The cladding - why was combustible cladding allowed on the market?
16 mins
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Ep 2: Building Blocks
How a fire in Scotland in 1999 foretold the fire at Grenfell
14 mins
Grenfell: Building a Disaster - Episode 1: Wake Up Call
As the world hears news of a fire in West London, questions start about who’s to blame
14 mins
Introducing Grenfell: Building a Disaster
A new 10-part series about the Grenfell Tower fire and why it happened
04 Sep 2024,1 min
203 The End of the Hearings
“All the deaths were avoidable”
11 Nov 2022,48 mins
202 Nick Hurd
"I can’t undo the past, but I wanted to be a part of making things better”
08 Jul 2022,25 mins
201 Expert toxicology evidence, and closing statements on the aftermath
“They were failed before the fire, during the fire, and after the fire"
01 Jul 2022,45 mins
200 Closing Statements on testing and regulation
“Crime, compound negligence and neglect across this industry”
24 Jun 2022,46 mins
199 Expert Witnesses: Week 2
“Foolish, irresponsible and a missed opportunity”
17 Jun 2022,32 mins
198 Expert Witnesses
“Most shocking experiments I have ever witnessed"
10 Jun 2022,32 mins
197 Aftermath of the fire: Central government and the Mayor of London
“Chaos and hyperactivity in the department”
27 May 2022,35 mins
196 Aftermath of the fire: Central government and London Local Authorities
“More complex than 7/7”
20 May 2022,33 mins
195 Aftermath of the fire: The Rest Centres
“2017 was a watershed year for emergencies in the UK”
13 May 2022,33 mins
194 Aftermath of the fire: The Council: Week 2
“Caught in the eye of a terrible storm”
06 May 2022,40 mins
193 Aftermath of the fire: The Council and BSRs
“Bigger than any authority could manage”
29 Apr 2022,41 mins
192 Aftermath of the fire
“The system isn’t broken; it was built this way”
15 Apr 2022,48 mins
191 The Ministers: Week 2
“I don’t find it surprising; I find it astounding”
08 Apr 2022,45 mins
190 Brian Martin and the Ministers
“People looked for loopholes rather than a good solution”
01 Apr 2022,44 mins
189 Brian Martin
“It wasn’t a deliberate decision…simply didn’t think of it”
25 Mar 2022,38 mins
188 The Housing Ministry: Week 2
“A complete failure throughout the proceeding decades"
18 Mar 2022,40 mins
187 The Housing Ministry
“Anger, frustration and exhaustion”
11 Mar 2022,41 mins