The Reading Room is a slower kind of conversation, built around ideas worth sitting with.

This edition turns to the Stanford Prison Experiment: 1971, a basement, students split into guards and prisoners, and how quickly it unravelled.

We'll look at the story it became, the serious doubts cast on it since, and the harder question underneath: how much of what we do is us, and how much is the role we're handed.

Bring your curiosity and your scepticism.