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1 January. ( 2024-01-01) –. 4 January 2024. ( 2024-01-04) Mr Bates vs The Post Office is a four-part British television drama series for ITV, written by Gwyneth Hughes, directed by James Strong and starring an ensemble cast led by Toby Jones. The series is a dramatisation of the British Post Office scandal, a miscarriage of justice in which ...
(The Wikipedia article "British Post Office scandal" runs to 16,000 words.) And it's cast with actors who can create whole characters from dialogue that is 90% exposition, supplemented with ...
Sir Alan Bates (born 1954 or 1955) [1] is a former subpostmaster and a leading campaigner for victims of the British Post Office scandal, in which thousands of subpostmasters were accused of dishonesty when faulty Post Office accounting software created shortfalls in their accounts. After the Post Office terminated his contract in 2003 over a ...
British Post Office scandal. The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved the Post Office pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for apparent financial shortfalls caused by faults in Horizon, an accounting software system developed by Fujitsu. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were ...
The Post Office Horizon IT scandal has been put in the spotlight again following the release of ITV’s drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, starring actor Toby Jones. – Who is Alan Bates?
What is Mr. Bates vs The Post Office. ITV‘s post office drama that has led to an intense period of reckoning for multiple institutions and pushed the issue to the front pages of UK newspapers ...
June 2, 2024 at 8:08 AM. [Getty] Actor Toby Jones, who played the lead role in the TV series about the Post Office scandal, has said he "played a hero" in the drama. He starred as Alan Bates in ...
Paula Anne Vennells (born 21 February 1959) is a British former businesswoman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Post Office Limited from 2012 to 2019, years which saw the continuing prosecution of innocent subpostmasters and a very costly and unsuccessful attempt to defend a group action. She is also an ordained Anglican priest who ...