Peter Apps in conversation - Show Me The Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen

3.30-5pm | Free, booking required

Peter Apps is a journalist and deputy editor at Inside Housing - and he broke a story on the dangers of combustible cladding thirty-four days before the Grenfell Fire. Peter will be joining us in Cardiff to discuss his book, Show Me The Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen. Show Me The Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen, won the 2023 Orwell Prize for political writing.

In Show Me The Bodies, Peter Apps meticulously exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused a tragedy. 72 people did not need to die, as the Grenfell Tower Inquiry makes clear. Here is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for justice.

Rowan Moore wrote in The Observer, "Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did, with the story of a Grenfell resident struggling to escape with his young daughters and heavily pregnant wife.”

Join us for a powerful talk from Peter, chaired by Cardiff writer Rachel Dawson. We'll talk to Peter about his exposure of faulty decision making, and the lessons we can learn to ensure a disaster like Grenfell never happens again.

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This event is part Grenfell: We Stand With You, a public programme that accompanies the presentation of the film Grenfell by Steve McQueen.

This national tour of Grenfell is being coordinated by Tate in collaboration with the partner venues and is made possible thanks to support using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and from Art Fund. Each presentation will be free to visit and will be accompanied by a public engagement programme of talks, workshops and community events supported by the Grenfell Foundation.