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Opening plenary: The importance of storytelling and the influence you can have

Thursday, 25 Sep 2025 09:15 - 10:00Highwalk forum
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Pete   Apps Pete AppsAuthor of Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen and contributing editor, Inside Housing
Gail   Porter Gail PorterAdvocateHomewards

From personal testimony to investigative journalism, powerful storytelling can cut through noise and shape the national understanding of housing issues. In this insightful conversation, broadcaster and advocate Gail Porter will join award-winning journalist and author Pete Apps to explore how lived experience and compelling narratives can drive change and influence public and political debate.

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