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Trailer for Channel 4's new show The Experiment

Actor Ellie Wallwock has described her role in Channel 4's controversial documentary The Experiment as one of the “most difficult” of her career, warning viewers that it is a hard-hitting but important watch.

Hosted by actor Mat Fraser and disability rights activist Sophie Morgan, the show explores whether modern society could be persuaded by repackaged Nazi eugenicist rhetoric presented as progressive care solutions.

Members of the public were tricked into touring a fake residential facility named SegriLife House, unaware that its policies for disabled and neurodivergent residents were drawn from 1930s and 1940s Nazi Germany.

Ellie Wallwock, who is blind and plays one of the facility's residents, highlighted the emotional weight of the project and emphasised the crucial importance of telling disabled stories.

The documentary drew mixed critical responses, with a two-star review in The Independent…