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I have mixed feelings about prank show activism—I think Ben Palmer does some of the best stuff in the US, but it has limits and stingers embedded into it as a political strategy. But I'd be interested to see how this "docu-prank" hybrid works, with the added Aktion T4 coverage. #eugenics

Frances Ryan@francesryan.bsky.social

My review of The Experiment is now the most read article on the whole of The Guardian website. It is genuinely one of the most shocking, disturbing, and timely things I’ve ever watched. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Curious, though, how much in the show was done to link it to the record of eugenic practices in the UK. It's one thing to blame it on the Nazis, and another to link it to living history. Obviously, the format implicates modern Britain, but I'm still wondering if that's enough...

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