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.
Episodes

Saturday Dec 06, 2025
The final report of the Dawn Sturgess inquiry
Saturday Dec 06, 2025
Saturday Dec 06, 2025
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 | Emergency planning

Saturday Nov 22, 2025
Responses of UK nations to the Covid inquiry
Saturday Nov 22, 2025
Saturday Nov 22, 2025
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 Covid-19 Inquiry | Inquests & Inquiries
This is a series with a companion website:
Inquests and inquiries
and associated youtube - with a specific companion video here https://youtu.be/5jIif0bbkvc
www.youtube.com/@inquestsandinquiries

Sunday May 11, 2025
The Brook House Inquiry
Sunday May 11, 2025
Sunday May 11, 2025
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.

Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Vale of Leven C difficile infection inquiry
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
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.

Sunday Feb 23, 2025
Understanding the Salisbury Nerve Agent Inquiry
Sunday Feb 23, 2025
Sunday Feb 23, 2025
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 evidence as a test, but it produced an interesting result.

Sunday Feb 16, 2025
The Redfern Inquiry - The human tissue scandal
Sunday Feb 16, 2025
Sunday Feb 16, 2025
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 on the companion website below.
My site Inquests and Inquiries | Emergency planning
The Inquests and Inquiries Redfern inquiry page Redfern | Inquests & Inquiries

Saturday Feb 08, 2025
UK Covid 19 inquiry module 1 - Initial thoughts and response
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
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.

Sunday Feb 02, 2025
Maternity and perinatal care and mortality
Sunday Feb 02, 2025
Sunday Feb 02, 2025
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
Bulk download of all reports








