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The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast

10 Commemoration: Day 5

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast

BBC

News

4.8627 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The inquiry hears commemorations from the family and friends of fifteen people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire. Today the relatives of Vincent Chiejina, Ligaya Moore, Abdulaziz El Wahabi, Faouzia El Wahabi, Yasin El Wahabi, Nur Huda El Wahabi, Mehdi El Wahabi, Hashim Kedir, Nura Jemal, Yahya Hashim, Firdaws Hashim, Yaqub Hashim, Khadija Khaloufi, Steve Power and Jessica Urbano Ramirez spoke. We also talk to one of the people who gave one of the memorials this week – Michael Volpe.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.8

This is the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast, a new podcast every day the inquiry sits.

0:09.5

I'm Eddie Mayer.

0:10.7

All week, the inquiry has been hearing about some of the people who died at Grenfell Tower.

0:16.1

Later in this podcast, a first-hand account of what it was like to be part of this week.

0:21.2

What was incredibly affecting about the inquiry is not just this relentless grief that is around.

0:34.5

It was the way that the community of those victims expresses itself to each other.

0:44.5

And I, you know, I, you like to think you're quite a humble person, you know, in our lives.

0:49.8

And I, and, but I don't, I've got a lesson in humility there really.

0:56.6

When somebody who's lost six members of his family

1:02.2

makes a beeline to comfort a woman who'd lost that,

1:07.7

you know, you just think it's sort of hard to compute almost.

1:12.4

That's Michael Volpe. We spoke to him a little earlier today. It was a very interesting

1:16.8

conversation, everything he had to say, and you can hear part of it later in the podcast.

1:21.8

We've spoken several times this week about how the people giving these memorials are being given

1:26.7

the space and time to make the process as easy as possible.

1:30.8

There's an example of this today.

1:32.1

This is QC Bernard Richmond talking to Mariam, who's 13 years old.

1:37.4

Marion wanted to pay tribute to her cousin, Nohuda El Wahhabi.

1:41.1

Are you next?

1:42.3

Yeah.

1:42.7

Tell everyone who you are.

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