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Anna Constable joins Channel 4 documentary examining disability propaganda
EastEnders actor Anna Constable is part of Channel 4 documentary The Experiment.
Constable, who plays Jodie Hawkins, joined the BBC soap in August and filmed the documentary the previous year.
The programme centres on SegriLife House, a fictional facility presented as a model of supported living for disabled people.
It was conceived by Mat Fraser and Sophie Morgan, who drew on Nazi Germany’s persecution and killing of disabled people during World War II.
The documentary tests whether similar harmful ideas can be made acceptable today.
It examines how language about productivity, dependency and public cost can affect how disabled people are valued.
The one-off programme airs on Channel 4 at 10pm.
Anna Constable is part of the creative team for The Experiment, a one-off Channel 4 documentary about disability propaganda.
The programme examines whether ideas that devalue disabled people can be repackaged to seem acceptable today.
It is set in SegriLife House, a fictional residential facility presented as a model of supported living.
The documentary was conceived by Mat Fraser and Sophie Morgan and draws on the Nazi persecution and killing of disabled people.
The Experiment airs at 10pm on Channel 4.
- Who
- Anna Constable, Mat Fraser and Sophie Morgan are involved in the documentary.
- What
- The Experiment examines disability propaganda and whether similar ideas could persuade the British public today.
- When
- It airs at 10pm on the night of the article’s publication.
- Where
- On Channel 4; the documentary is set in the fictional SegriLife House.
- Why
- The makers want to test whether propaganda can make people view disabled people as disposable or less deserving of a place in society.
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Constable filmed the documentary before she began filming EastEnders.
Constable joined EastEnders.
The Experiment airs at 10pm on Channel 4.
- Programme
- The Experiment
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Air time
- 10pm
- Setting
- SegriLife House, a fictional residential facility
- Creators
- Mat Fraser and Sophie Morgan
What people are saying
But more importantly we wanted to test whether the British public could be persuaded by similar propaganda today – to believe that disabled people are disposable, or less deserving of a place in society.
Last year, before I started filming @bbceastenders, I filmed something very different… and now it’s finally coming to TV!