A high-rise fire killed Catherine. The cladding firm kept selling

Eight years before the Grenfell tragedy, a fire in a high-rise building killed six people. Now a Sunday Times investigation has raised serious questions about the cladding used on those flats and thousands of others in the UK. So is this Britain's biggest corporate scandal?

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Guest: Martina Lees, Senior Property Writer, The Sunday Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers:

Taryn Siegel Olivia Case.

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