Havana Marking, Adam Rutherford and Harry Shukman talk to Jennifer Nadel

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.