How can we better understand how the far right operates? Ask the filmmaker whose documentary screening was pulled amid fears of a mobilisation against it. Ask the geneticist who broke the story of American money funding the re-emergence of eugenics. Ask the undercover journalist who spent a year masquerading as an extremist named Chris.
Havana Marking is a British documentary filmmaker known for finding the human stories that reflect the large geopolitical picture. Her latest film is Undercover: Exposing the Far Right. Adam Rutherford lectures in Genetics and Society at UCL. His books include How to Argue With a Racist and Control: the Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics. Harry Shukman’s Year of the Rat is an urgent exposé that follows the Hope Not Hate researcher and reporter on a nail-biting year undercover infiltrating far-right groups in the UK.
They discuss the far right and its work to dismantle our democracy with Jennifer Nadel, co-founder of think tank Compassion in Politics.
