Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Despite being one of the biggest miscarriages of justices in history, the British Post Office scandal – in which nearly a thousand sub-postmasters were privately prosecuted for theft or fraud in error, due to a faulty IT software system – never gained the public traction it deserved. Hopefully Gwyneth Hughes’s new drama starring Toby Jones and Julie Hesmondhalgh will give this matter the attention it deserves.
• ITV1, 1 January
