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In this Friday Afternoon Video, Kassandra describes the complexities, the politics and the possibilities she has been navigating in her experience of bringing narrative ideas into the TV world. Having been invited over the past few years onto several TV shows to discuss, from a professionalised position, a range of topics that relates to experiences of hardship, the video follows Kassandra’s insights of how walking into the studio is similar to walking into a context that is structured by politics – the politics of representation, the politics associated with the hierarchies of knowledges and the politics of dominant discourses. Inspired by David Denborough’s contributions in the narrative field and following adaptations of the concept of ‘enabling people to speak through us not just to us’, the video shares explorations of how the use of collective narrative practices, and other practices in response to issues of power and privilege, offered new possibilities to utilise this public forum as a vehicle for the sharing of insider knowledges, and the linking of people’s lives through shared stories of hard-won wisdom and skills on the issues being discussed on TV.