Episode 302 - Grenfell Tower
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Wondery | RedHanded
4.5 • 18.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
On 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed Grenfell Tower, a high-rise residential building in West London.
74 people died, and the tragedy became one of the darkest days in recent British history.
But worst of all, the incident was completely avoidable. This is the story of how decades of government corruption and unbelievable corporate greed killed so many innocent people.
As part of our coverage of the Grenfell case, and to support those still affected today - we’re going to be donating a portion of our ad revenue from this episode to the Grenfell Foundation.
If you’d like to find out more about the Grenfell Foundation please follow this link: https://www.grenfellfoundation.org.uk/fundraising
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| 0:00.0 | Prime members, you can listen to Redhanded early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:15.2 | I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti and welcome to Redhanded. A time you want? One we've been thinking about doing for a while |
| 0:23.4 | but felt like we had to do it at the appropriate time and this is that time. |
| 0:28.8 | It is that time because if you are listening to this as a beloved patron on Wednesday the 14th of June, |
| 0:34.7 | then it will be the 6 year anniversary to the day of the horrific tragedy that we are about to discuss. |
| 0:41.5 | If you are listening to it on the 15th, do the maths. |
| 0:43.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.8 | It's bad times. It's bad times. Today we're going to get very enraged on this podcast when I was reading through the script for this |
| 0:51.9 | and going over the details of it. God, I just found myself and I said this at the podcast show when we were talking about this episode. |
| 0:58.0 | I found myself just like my eyes were just pouring with tears because it is so senseless. |
| 1:06.8 | This was just down to absolute sheer stupidity on the part of the authorities and just an absolute callous disregard for human life |
| 1:17.5 | and it is so infuriating because spoilers not one single person had to die in this case. |
| 1:25.6 | But we're going to get to it if you feel like that episode was quite heavy guys. |
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