From the archive: The Grenfell fire (Pt 1): Stories from the tower
The Story
The Times
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🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The Public Inquiry into the fire at Grenfell Tower will publish its final report on Wednesday. Ahead of its findings, we revisit a two-part podcast from June 2022. In part one, we remember the night of the fire on June 14, 2017, through the stories of three families who called the tower home.
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Guest: Martina Lees, Senior Property Writer, the Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: Channel 4 News, ITV News, BBC News, Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:27.0 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:30.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:36.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:39.5 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:43.8 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:46.3 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:50.4 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:56.1 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 1:10.0 | In the summer of 2017, we watched in horror and disbelief as a raging inferno swept through Grenfell Tower. |
| 1:22.0 | In the aftermath, questions were raised over the failures |
| 1:26.1 | that allowed the fire to spread and the then Prime Minister Theresa May ordered an inquiry. |
| 1:35.0 | Seven years on, its final report is due to be published next week. |
| 1:41.0 | As a reminder of what's at stake for the victims and their families and the issues |
| 1:47.0 | of negligence that the inquiry will address, we're bringing you a two-part podcast on Grenfell, which we first published back when the story was still stories of our times. Tomorrow it will be five years since a fire broke out in a small apartment on the fourth floor of a tower block in West London. |
| 2:21.0 | Five years since this moment. |
| 2:25.0 | Far Brigade? |
| 2:26.0 | Yeah, hello, hi, in the fire, |
| 2:28.0 | flat 16 green filter. |
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