The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast Episodes Episode guide
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58 Assistant Operations Manager Debbie Real and Control Room Operators Angela Gotts and Aisha Jabin
A 999 call operator spends 40 minutes comforting a woman trapped on the top floor
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57 Operations Manager Alexandra Norman and Control Room Operator Peter Duddy
A 999 call handler describes how he couldn’t persuade a family to leave their flat.
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56 Group Manager Goulbourne, Crew Manager Morrison and Firefighter Wood
The chairman of the inquiry resists calls to make safety recommendations before January
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55 Station Manager Wolfenden, Watch Managers Furnell and Leaver, Firefighters Bell and Juggins
A miscommunication means firefighters don’t act on 999 information for an hour
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54 Crew Managers Codd, Gallagher and Hoare, and firefighters Fernandes, Foster, Lawson and Orchard
Two firefighters tell nine residents to stay inside their flats as the fire spreads
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53 Firefighters Cornelius, Herrera , Merrion, Murphy, Upton, Wharnsby, and Crew Manager McAlonen
Firefighters give their account of what happened on the 14th floor
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52 Watch Manager Johnson and Station Manager Loft
A lack of ‘vital’ building plans hampers rescues
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51 Station Managers Kipling and Myatt, Watch Managers Johnson and Moore and Firefighters King and Moore
Firefighters struggle with low water pressure, falling debris and a lack of training
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50 Group Manager Goodall and Station Manager Myatt
Firefighters are overwhelmed by the volume of 999 calls
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5 Hopes and expectations
What do families and campaigners want the Grenfell Tower Inquiry to achieve?
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49 Ambrose Mendy
A man who lost two relatives in the fire visits Grenfell
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48 The Story So Far
What we’ve learnt over the past nine weeks
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47 Crew Manager Batcheldor, 999 Control Operator Sharon Darby and Watch Manager Beale
A firefighter comforts a mother and her son trapped on the fourteenth floor
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46 Station Manager Mulholland and 999 Control Operator Darby
A senior firefighter tells the inquiry adhering to policy was a challenge
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45 Watch Managers Williams and Aston-O’Donovan, and firefighter Desforges
Two firefighters help carry out nine rescues on three different floors
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44 Watch Manager Williams
A firefighter struggles to keep track of who has been rescued from the tower
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43 Crew Manager Diana
In a special edition Eddie Mair speaks to Aldo Diana who rescued nine people
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42 Watch Managers de Silvo and Peckham
A firefighter writes details of those trapped in the tower on the wall of the third floor
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41 Watch Manager Sadler and Watch Manager de Silvo
Two firefighters vital to passing on information about trapped residents give evidence
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40 Watch Manager Watson and Station Manager Cook
A man carrying an axe and claiming to be an American firefighter is turned away
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4 The Chair
What do we know about the chair of the Grenfell inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick?
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39 Firefighters O’Donoghue, Gillam and Roberts
Firefighters describe their attempt to extinguish the fire from the roof
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38 Firefighters Hippel and Bettinson, and Crew Manager Stern
Two firefighters describe their attempt to rescue a man on the 16th floor
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37 Emergency Control Operators and Firefighter Keane
A 999 operator stays on the phone with a trapped 12-year old girl for an hour
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36 Deputy Assistant Commissioner Fenton
The highest ranked officer in the 999 control room gives evidence
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35 Station Manager Oliff
A firefighter makes the "impossible" decision to tell a man to go back and get his family
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34 Operations Manager Smith: Day 2
Residents are told to evacuate the building
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33 Operations Manager Smith
The first insight into the 999 control room
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32 Watch Manager Meyrick
What happened to information from residents’ 999 calls?
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31 Watch Manager O’Keeffe and Firefighter Dorgu
Firefighter Dorgu carries casualties out of the tower