The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast Episodes Episode guide
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161 Smoke Ventilation: Building Control
“Another story of incompetence and indifference”
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160 TMO’s Senior Management
“An exercise in concealment and half-truth”.
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16 Opening statements: Day 4
Lawyers for the fire brigade make their case
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159 TMO and the London Fire Brigade
“He may not be competent for his role”.
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158 The Fourth Anniversary
Today marks four years since the fire at Grenfell Tower
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157 The Tenant Management Organisation
“It was clearly a major oversight. I can’t give you any other explanation, I’m sorry.”
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156 Carl Stokes: Week 2
“I believe that I undertook the risk assessments to the best of my ability”.
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155 Carl Stokes
“Is that not a very incurious approach for a fire risk assessor?”
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154 RBKC Councillors
“I think we lacked a little humanity”.
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153 Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
“Getting out of this building by the stairs is extremely difficult”.
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152 The Tenant Management Organisation: Week 2
‘Stay put’ relied on despite evacuations after fires in other TMO properties
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151 The Tenant Management Organisation
‘Let’s hope our luck holds out and there are no fires in the meantime’.
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150 Residents of Grenfell Tower
‘They didn’t treat us with respect or humanity or empathy’.
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15 Opening statements: Day 3
Lawyers for the tenant in whose flat the fire started and the council make their cases
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149 Race and Class at Grenfell
Relatives explain why they want the inquiry to consider the role played by race and class
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148 Module 3 Opening Statements
Grenfell Tower ‘a landmark act of discrimination against disabled and vulnerable people’.
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147 Kingspan and the BBA
‘Would it be fair… to say that you were set up by others…as Kingspan’s useful idiot’?
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146 The British Board of Agrement
A ‘very basic failure of due diligence’.
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145 Arconic, BBA, Siderise and Panel Systems
Arconic was warned of the risk of a cladding fire that could kill "60 to 70" people.
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144 The Building Research Establishment: Week 2
A manager at the BRE accepted he made a fundamental omission when analysing test data.
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143 The Building Research Establishment
A manager at the BRE denied deliberately concealing test evidence.
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142 Arconic: Week 2
The cladding manufacturer admitted it had been ‘deliberately and dishonestly misleading’.
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141 Arconic
Witnesses from Arconic, the cladding manufacturer, started their evidence.
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140 A Pause in Proceedings
The inquiry pauses for a few weeks because of the pandemic
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14 Opening statements: Day 2
Lawyers for survivors, bereaved and residents set out their stall
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139 Kingspan: Week 3
Kingspan denied a “deliberate attempt to deceive” MPs after the Grenfell fire
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138 Kingspan: Week 2
They’re "getting me confused with someone who gives a damn.”
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137 Kingspan and Celotex
Staff from insulation manufacturer Kingspan ‘stretched the truth’
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136 Celotex
Staff from the insulation manufacturer Celotex admitted they were unethical and dishonest
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135 Module 2 Opening Statements & Celotex
Cladding manufacturers accused of abusing product testing and certification processes.