Hello and welcome to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry podcast. I'm Eddie Mayer. We're going to be reporting every night from the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire. It starts on Monday and on Monday we start our daily reporting. We're not entirely sure how we're going to do that. It's a complex business each day at an inquiry.

We're going to try to condense the proceedings into what we need to know and also take time to

explain some of the terminology that's been used, some of the jargon that comes up.

And in the course of the weeks and months to come, we'll interview some of the people taking part in the inquiry

and we'll get our own experts on air onto the podcast so we can all understand what's going on.

In one of the early inquiry hearings held before the official started the process,

lawyers representing the survivors argued that they should be placed at the heart of the process.

That does not mean that you should be biased in their favour. They do not want that. And it does

not mean that you should treat those who could be criticized in an unfair fashion far from

it. But you must put the survivors and bereaved at the centre of the process

because that is where the law requires them to be.

At Holburn bars, the building where the inquiry will be taking place,

people working on the inquiry where it pains to stress to me

how important the survivors and the bereaved were to the process.

In this edition of the podcast,

the last before the inquiry starts on Monday, we're going to hear what some of those people

want from the inquiry. Karim Busili's uncle, Hesham Raman, who lived on the top floor of the

block, died in the fire. He's part of the group Grenfell United,

which is led by survivors and the bereaved.

In times like this, you tend to get told,

as time calls on, it gets better.

But in this situation, it really doesn't.

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