Latest Grenfell Podcast Episodes
01 – Biographical Sketch
Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell - January 02, 2024 00:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
02 – Adrift on an Ice-Pan
Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell - January 01, 2024 00:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
03 – Appendix
Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Grenfell - December 31, 2023 00:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
Ep.13 All That Remains
Dead Honest - September 28, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsRobert Jensen is the man you want in the room on the worst day of your life. He runs the world's largest disaster recovery business, Kenyon International, and is an expert in recovering the dead and reuniting them with the families they leave behind. We discuss the challenges of collecting ...
Episode 12. What Lies Beneath
Dead Honest - June 08, 2021 13:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSgt Suzanne Crossley supervises a team of police divers who recover dead bodies. She reveals why this is the best job she’s ever had. Based in the north of England, her team is regularly deployed to find missing people and gather forensic evidence. Warning: This episode contains referenc...
Welcome to Catastrophe!
Catastrophe - May 27, 2021 09:47 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA podcast about how we create disasters and why we don’t learn from them. Led by high hazard consultant Gill Kernick and Radio 4 journalist Matthew Price. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1. FIRE
Catastrophe - May 26, 2021 10:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTRIGGER WARNING: THERE IS A VERY SHORT CLIP OF THE FIRST EMERGENCY CALL AND SOUNDS OF THE NIGHT NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THIS PODCAST In this first episode Gill Kernick and Matthew Price go back to June 2017 when Gill witnessed the terrible fire at Grenfell that killed 72 people. As she watched t...
2. AIR
Catastrophe - May 25, 2021 08:11 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode Gill Kernick and Matthew Price examine what went wrong with the Boeing 737 Max aircraft. Why did 346 people lose their lives? With the help of the consulting editor at Flight Global, David Learmount, Gill and Matthew look at the culture of Boeing at the time of the accident, a...
3. WATER
Catastrophe - May 24, 2021 08:16 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode Gill Kernick and Matthew Price look at the Costa Concordia disaster - the ship that hit rocks and capsized off the coast of italy. Despite being so close to land, 33 people lost their lives. A subsequent investigation focused on the shortcomings in the procedures followed by th...
4. DISEASE
Catastrophe - May 23, 2021 08:20 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode Gill Kernick and Matthew Price look at why we weren't more prepared for the pandemic.. We knew it was coming. The World Health Organisation published its first pandemic plan in 1999. The UK had also planned for it. What on earth happened? And what does that story tell us more ...
5. BLAME
Catastrophe - May 21, 2021 08:24 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode Gill Kernick and Matthew Price look at our obsession with blame and blame-avoidance and how that cements our inability to learn. They speak to the former government advisor Salma Shah and Times Radio correspondent Charlotte Ivers about the relationship between politicians and the...
6. HOPE
Catastrophe - May 19, 2021 08:39 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTRIGGER WARNING: THERE IS A SHORT CLIP OF HANAN WAHABI GIVING EVIDENCE AT THE GRENFELL INQUIRY AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS PODCAST. In this episode Gill Kernick and Matthew Price go back to the start, to the Grenfell Tower fire to look for where hope for change might emerge. Joined by Hanan Wah...
Episode 4: Meetings at the Edge
Dead Honest - May 12, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSome midwives guide us into the world. Lizzie Neville guides us out. She’s part of a growing band of Death Doulas supporting us as we die. Lizzie Neville shares her upbeat observations of the many deaths she has attended revealing common regrets and offering sage advice on how to die well. For...
Episode 11. Last Train
Dead Honest - May 07, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsEvery 30 hours someone dies on Britain’s railways. Liam Johnston is a Railway Chaplain supporting the drivers and devastated families left behind. For more information about Liam’s chaplaincy work visit Railway Mission. Warning: This episode contains references to suicide. For information on...
Episode 10. Road to Nowhere
Dead Honest - April 01, 2021 16:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMac Hobbs is a tow truck driver. He recovers vehicles after fatal crashes and from remote locations where people have taken their lives. The hardest part of his job? Reuniting the cars with the families left behind. Warning: This episode contains references to suicide. For information on organ...
Episode 9. Handle With Care
Dead Honest - March 24, 2021 17:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAnita Hardy is an Anatomical Pathology Technologist. She takes great pride in caring for her ‘patients’ in the morgue. For more information about Anita’s work, contact her association: Association of Anatomical Pathology Technology Produced by Georgie Vestey and Kate McAll with original mu...
Ep.1 Gone Too Soon
Dead Honest - March 03, 2021 19:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCheryl Johnson has a heartbreaking day job. She photographs babies whose lives are cut short. For the parents she helps, her photographs are more than precious. They are often the only memory they will have of a much-loved child. You can find out more about Cheryl Johnson and Remember My Baby....
Episode 8. Don't Look Down
Dead Honest - February 07, 2021 17:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCathy MacDonald’s is a former police Crisis Negotiator. Her calm voice and capacity to listen have saved lives. She’s sat on the edge of many high places persuading the troubled to chose life over death. Since leaving the Scottish Police, Cathy has built a successful communications business, ...
Ep.3 Investigating Sudden Death
Dead Honest - January 15, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsBob and Karen are Coroners Officers who investigate sudden deaths, from fatal car accidents to deadly cliff falls. We discuss how you prepare families for viewings, the challenge of dealing with suicides, and the cases they will never forget. This episode includes references to suicide so liste...
Ep. 6: Behind Closed Doors
Dead Honest - January 12, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“Specialist officers are supporting the family at this time” is a chilling phrase. Lou Pye explains why. As a former Police Family Liaison Officer, Lou talks about her role in supporting families after a traumatic death, the surprising reactions she’s witnessed, and why her “parking face” is ne...
Episode 6: Behind Closed Doors
Dead Honest - January 12, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“Specialist officers are supporting the family at this time” is a chilling phrase. Lou Pye explains why. As a former Police Family Liaison Officer, Lou talks about her role in supporting families after a traumatic death, the surprising reactions she’s witnessed, and why her “parking face” is ne...
Episode 7. Dad, we need to talk...
Dead Honest - January 03, 2021 17:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe need to talk about death. Whilst the vast majority of us are not going to die of the coronavirus, some of us will. How do we talk about our last wishes with those we love? And what are our options? A very practical guide to having 'the conversation' with leading UK Death Doula, Hermione Ellio...
Ep.5 "Picking up the Pieces"
Dead Honest - December 26, 2020 15:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStumbling across a dead body is the stuff of nightmares. For Mo Oliver, it’s all in a day's work. That’s because Mo Oliver identifies human remains for a living. It’s a job that’s taken him to some very dark places; from mass graves in Bosnia to Sri Lankan beaches clogged with the bodies of th...
Episode. 6: Behind Closed Doors
Dead Honest - November 08, 2020 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings“Specialist officers are supporting the family at this time” is a chilling phrase. Lou Pye explains why. As a former Police Family Liaison Officer, Lou talks about her role in supporting families after a traumatic death, the surprising reactions she’s witnessed, and why her “parking face” is ne...
Episode 5. "Picking up the Pieces"
Dead Honest - October 04, 2020 14:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStumbling across a dead body is the stuff of nightmares. For Mo Oliver, it’s all in a day's work. That’s because Mo Oliver identifies human remains for a living. It’s a job that’s taken him to some very dark places; from mass graves in Bosnia to Sri Lankan beaches clogged with the bodies of th...
Episode 4. Meetings at the Edge
Dead Honest - September 06, 2020 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSome midwives guide us into the world. Lizzie Neville guides us out. She’s part of a growing band of Death Doulas supporting us as we die. Lizzie Neville shares her upbeat observations of the many deaths she has attended revealing common regrets and offering sage advice on how to die well. For...
Episode 3. Investigating Sudden Death
Dead Honest - August 02, 2020 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsBob and Karen are Coroners Officers who investigate sudden deaths, from fatal car accidents to deadly cliff falls. We discuss how you prepare families for viewings, the challenge of dealing with suicides, and the cases they will never forget. This episode includes references to suicide so liste...
Episode 2. Dying to Meet You
Dead Honest - July 05, 2020 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWhen Andy Holter sees his first dead body he is riveted. He also knows he’s found his vocation. He leaves the police and decides to become a funeral director. We discuss working with death, the mourners that get forgotten and why some people are actually quite pleased to see the back of us. ...
Episode 1. Gone Too Soon
Dead Honest - June 07, 2020 18:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCheryl Johnson has a heartbreaking day job. She photographs babies whose lives are cut short. For the parents she helps, her photographs are more than precious. They are often the only memory they will have of a much-loved child. You can find out more about Cheryl Johnson and Remember My Baby....
Dad, we need to talk...
Dead Honest - March 29, 2020 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWe need to talk about death. Whilst the vast majority of us are not going to die of the coronavirus, some of us will. How do we talk about our last wishes with those we love? And what are our options? A very practical guide to having 'the conversation' with leading UK Death Doula, Hermione Ellio...
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