grenfell tower Podcasts

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.

Welcome to Building safety conversations, a podcast brought to you by building safety experts at law firm Mills & Reeve.We discuss the legislation introduced following the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy and its far-reaching consequences. Parts of the legislation affect all buildings, regardless of height, and potentially any corporate group that has ever owned a building or produced or supplied a product used in the construction industry.Stay tuned for our episodes. You can follow the team on LinkedIn, or visit our website for more information.

Podcast for Program: Grenfell Tower Public Enquiry will be whitewash if controlled by government minister/

Podcast for Program: Ground Zero - Joe Delaney with latest on the Grenfell Tower enquiry

Podcast for Program: How Bristol tenants stopped Lib Dem TMOs that mis-managed London's Grenfell Tower

The Fire Protection Association is the UK's national fire safety organisation and works to identify the dangers of fire and help our clients reduce any fire-related risks. Now in its second series, our monthly podcast launched in February 2021 to provide a collective space in which industry leaders can explore the most pressing issues in fire safety and share expert information and advice. Following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, the conversation around fire safety in the UK has gathered pace. Despite this, however, more still needs to be done to ensure that the tragic consequences of Grenfell and many other major fires are not repeated. Featuring leading experts from across the sector and hosted alternately by the FPA’s respected fire safety professionals, Assembly Point has a growing audience of 600+ listeners and aims to move the debate on fire safety forwards by identifying new ways to work together to improve standards.

The fire coloured the night sky. A wall of flames engulfing the building. From her bedroom  in a neighbouring tower block Gill Kernick watched in horror as the Grenfell tower burned. 72 people lost their lives. Gill had lived on Grenfell’s 21st floor for three years. She loved the place, the exquisite views and the community. Now it was gone. As a consultant working in  high hazard industries to create the culture and leadership needed to prevent disasters, Gill felt helpless. This should never have happened. This podcast and the book it accompanies is the result of a vow Gill made as she watched the building burn, a vow to make sure we learned, to in some way honour the lives of those lost. In this series, Catastrophe The Podcast, Gill Kernick and journalist Matthew Price, who she met while he was covering the Grenfell Tower fire, examine how we create disasters. How our established ways of thinking and working contribute to catastrophe. They explore previous major accidents and explore how and why we rarely learn. And they discover that if we are to stop the next catastrophe we need to tear up the established ways of doing things and start along a new road.Catastrophe The Podcast is sponsored by JMJ Associates and is a Mother Come Quickly Production.  It runs along side the book by Gill Kernick - Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower and Other Disasters, published by the London Publishing Partnership  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.