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Ian Wright's Everyday People
Sony Music
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | How do you carry on when you've lost everything? |
| 0:10.4 | Our guest this week has an incredible story of resilience and transformation. |
| 0:16.3 | Back home, the way we were raised is like you don't look at the situation. |
| 0:20.7 | You find a way out of the situation. |
| 0:22.6 | Manera Mahmoud lived on the fifth floor of Grenfell Tower in West London. |
| 0:27.6 | In 2017, a fire ripped through the building, killing 72 people |
| 0:31.6 | and leaving hundreds homeless overnight. |
| 0:34.6 | It was Britain's most deadly domestic fire since the Second World War. |
| 0:38.3 | Three years on, there are still many unanswered questions about how and why it happened. |
| 0:50.3 | Minera's family escaped with just a close on their backs. |
| 0:53.3 | And like hundreds of others displaced by the fire, |
| 0:55.6 | she found herself in emergency shelter looking ahead to an uncertain future. |
| 1:02.5 | But from that place and through her passion for cooking, |
| 1:05.9 | Manera found an unexpected roadmap to move forward. |
| 1:10.0 | I want people to be happy. |
| 1:11.9 | I want to get people together |
| 1:13.2 | because it's the only way you understand each other, |
| 1:15.5 | you help each other, you support each other. |
| 1:17.7 | So I prayed before going to bed. |
| 1:19.2 | I said, please, God, show me the sign. |
| 1:22.4 | I'm Ian Wright, and this is everyday people. |
| 1:26.4 | And before we begin Manera's story, a warning that you might find this episode upsetting. |
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