The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast Episodes Episode guide
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188 The Housing Ministry: Week 2
“A complete failure throughout the proceeding decades"
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187 The Housing Ministry
“Anger, frustration and exhaustion”
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186 Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
“Appalling, delayed, partial and looks chaotic”
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185 Building Research Establishment & the Government
“What you didn’t do…was spell out that people will die”
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184 Building Research Establishment
‘a buck-passing load of incompetents’
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183 BRE, CWCT and UKAS
"This was a fundamentally incomplete investigation"
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182 National House Building Council
“This act of collaboration was, in one sense, corrupting”
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181 Modules 5 & 6 Closing Statements: Firefighting
“Incompetent and incapable... to respond to a fire that was extreme but foreseeable”
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180 National House Building Council and LABC
‘Does the panel feel that potentially we are sitting on a time bomb?'
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18 Expert witnesses: Niamh Nic Daeid
How and where the fire started
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179 Module 6 Opening Statements and LABC
“One of the major scandals of our time”
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179 Module 6 Opening Statements and LABC
“One of the major scandals of our time”
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178 London Fire Brigade: Week 7
“It was the most appalling example of institutional failure in recent British history”
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177 London Fire Brigade: Dany Cotton
“Firefighters were not necessarily prepared”
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176 London Fire Brigade: Week 6
“I feel slightly embarrassed because… the advice is not clear”
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175 London Fire Brigade: Week 5
“My review is pretty scathing!”
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174 London Fire Brigade: Week 4
No formal guidance on when and how to end ‘stay put’
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173 Module 3 Closing Statements and Module 6 Opening Statements
“The Grenfell Tower Fire was a human rights disaster”
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172 - Expert Witnesses
‘Incompetence at all levels’
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171 Kent Fire and Rescue Service
An alternative to “stay put”
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170 London Fire Brigade: Week 3
‘This could be the proverbial cat out of the bag’
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17 Expert witnesses: Barbara Lane
The failure of fire safety measures at Grenfell Tower.
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169 The London Fire Brigade
The “uncontrolled spread of fire… is a significant threat”
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168 London Fire Brigade Opening Statements
“The LFB did know. They knew, and lives could and should have been saved”.
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167 Closing Statements
“Truly a case of donkeys led by donkeys”
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166 Expert Witness: Barbara Lane
“Professionally reckless behaviour”.
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165 Expert Witnesses and the TMO
“An unnecessary tragedy”
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164 Lifts
Expert witness Roger Howkins.
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163 Gas Pipes and Lifts
“That culture possibly needs to change”.
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162 The Smoke Ventilation Designers and Contractors
“It was impossible to install any system.. that complied with any current.. regulation.”