One of the castmembers of new Channel 4 show The Experiment has stated that it was one of the “most difficult roles” she has ever undertaken.

Ellie Wallwock warned her followers that the controversial new show would be a “hard-hitting watch” for many but “an important one as well”.

The Experiment is hosted by actor Mat Fraser and disability rights activist Sophie Morgan, and explores whether people could be “persuaded by ideas drawn from Nazi ideology” if they were presented as progressive solutions to a modern social “problem”.

In the documentary, members of the public are invited to tour the fake residential home SegriLife House, believing it to be a real facility that offers “a radical model of supported living”.

Disabled and neurodivergent actors play the residents subjected to the fake residential home’s messaging and policies.

The touring public have no idea that SegriLife’s protocols are in fact based on how the Nazi regime treated disabled people in 1930s and 1940s Germany.

Mat Fraser and…