Inquests and inquiries

Inquests and inquiries

This is the companion podcast to two websites. The first is about the use of risk analysis in emergency planning and intelligence. The second is to increase understanding about the causes of disasters and loss of life by making it easier to access information on them. This can be from inquests, inquiries or other forms of investigation. The channel will use a mix of interviews, case studies and even some experiments with AI podcasters! The channel logo is a sinking black swan. The concept being that work on better understanding of disasters should allow us to ’sink’ black swan events, especially where they were potentially avoidable or not as unknown as we thought.

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December 6, 2025 16 mins

This is a podcast analysing the findings of the final report to the Dawn Sturgess inquiry.  There is a companion webpage with resources here: Dawn Sturgess Inquiry | Inquests & Inquiries

There is also a video explainer here https://youtu.be/5NO9ZO8zUM0

The government inquiry page is The Dawn Sturgess Inquiry – Inquiry into 2018 Salisbury poisonings

And the full website of the project that created this is:

Inquests and Inquiries...

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This is an analysis by AI of the reports and letters produced by the devolved administrations, following the report of module 1 of the UK Covid 19 inquiry. It is intended to see how well the AI forecasts the findings in module 2, which will be the next podcast!  It is an AI episode, with a human introduction and then analysis of the documents by the AI podcasters.

There are additional resources and the reports available here: UK Co...

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May 11, 2025 16 mins

My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning 

The Inquests and Inquiries Brook House inquiry page Brook house | Inquests & Inquiries

This episode examines the investigation in to abuse at the Brook House detention centre.

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My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning 

The Inquests and Inquiries inquiry page Vale of Leven Hospital | Inquests & Inquiries

 

This episode examines the outbreak of Clostridium difficile infection between 2007 and 2008 at the Vale of Leven hospital in Scotland and the subsequent inquiry and government response. 

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My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning 

The Inquests and Inquiries Dawn Sturgess inquiry page Dawn Sturgess Inquiry | Inquests & Inquiries

 

The government inquiry page is The Dawn Sturgess Inquiry – Inquiry into 2018 Salisbury poisonings

and the document used to train the AI is https://dsiweb-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/INQ000612_Part-1-Page-1-132.pdf

 

It is just the first of multiple packets of evi...

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This episode uses examines the Redfern Inquiry.

The Redfern Inquiry investigated the removal and analysis of organs from deceased nuclear workers in the UK between 1961 and 1992, and examined the legal and ethical problems with it. It is often considered alongside the tissue sampling of Miners and presumptions of consent with may have gone beyond the deceased and the family's wishes.

The documents and more information is available ...

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This episode discusses the report from the first module of the Covid 19 inquiry and the government response.

It is supported by a full page UK Covid-19 Inquiry | Inquests & Inquiries which has additional videos, resources and links to download the report and the response.

 

 

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February 2, 2025 28 mins

This episode uses almost 60 reports over 20 years to train an LLM and ask the podcasters to answer three questions:

 

What does this all mean for a non-medical professional?

Are things getting better?

What are the trends?

 

My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning 

National Maternity and Neonatal Recommendations Register - Home

National Maternity and Neonatal Recommendations Register - Published Reports

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January 26, 2025 15 mins

This is an analysis of the causes and contributing factors, themselves identified from three train inquiries

The Southall Rail Accident inquiry can be found here: HSE_Southall1997.pdf

and the excellent Railway archives have a full page about it here The Southall Rail Accident Inquiry Report :: The Railways Archive

Ladbroke Grove

Ladbroke-Grove-Rail-Inquiry-Report-Part-1.pdf

Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry Report Part 2

Clapham Junction

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January 26, 2025 16 mins

This is an analysis requested by listeners, looking at the Inquiry report and the Kerslake report.  It is an AI episode, with a human introduction and then analysis of the documents by the AI podcasters.

The Kerslake report is here the-kerslake-report.pdf

The Manchester Arena attack inquiry reports are here Manchester Arena Inquiry reports - GOV.UK

with the archived inquiry site here [ARCHIVED CONTENT] About – Manchester Arena Inqu...

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January 19, 2025 25 mins
Episode 6 is an exploration of 3 documents on flooding inquiries and incidents in the United Kingdom.  

The discussion, after an initial introduction, is entirely by two AI presenters and their discussion is the result of analysis of the documents by a large language model. 

This is a series with a companion website:

Inquests and inquiries

The specific referenced sources are below:

The sources uploaded are: https://ww...

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January 18, 2025 22 mins

This is an analysis of the causes and contributing factors, themselves identified within the inquiry into the sad events of the Southall Rail Accident. 

The Southall Rail Accident inquiry can be found here: HSE_Southall1997.pdf

and the excellent Railway archives have a full page about it here The Southall Rail Accident Inquiry Report :: The Railways Archive

This is a series with a companion website:

Inquests and inquiries

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This episode examines the Mid-Staffordshire NHS inquiry and response. The discussion, after an initial introduction, is entirely by two AI presenters and their discussion is the result of analysis of the documents by a large language model. 

This is a series with a companion website:

Inquests and inquiries

The specific companion page is: Berwick_report_Health | Inquests and inquiries

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January 11, 2025 20 mins
Episode 3 is an analysis of the Hixon level crossing accident, based on the report of the public inquiry in to the accident at Hixon Level Crossing on January 6th, 1968.    

The discussion, after an initial introduction, is entirely by two AI presenters and their discussion is the result of analysis of the documents by a large language model. 

This is a series with a companion website:

Inquests and inquiries

 

The Hix...

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December 31, 2024 20 mins

Episode 2 is an exploration of 36 documents on health inquiries and incidents in the United Kingdom and NHS.

The discussion, after an initial introduction, is entirely by two AI presenters and their discussion is the result of analysis of the documents by a large language model. 

This is a series with a companion website:

Inquests and inquiries

The specific referenced sources are below and can be downloaded from here

The sources up...

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December 31, 2024 3 mins

Just a short introduction to the series. This series will look at case studies, inquiries, inquests and investigations from around the world. The aim is to help people learn from tragedy and ensure that lessons identified from disaster are not repeated.

This is a series with a companion website:

Inquests and inquiries

And also a companion youtube channel:

www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries

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