“Everyone thinks of the Post Office as warm and cuddly", one character in ITV's new four-parter Mr Bates vs The Post Office says. And yet... this drama, based on a shocking true story, gives the lie to that impression.
A damning and harrowing few hours, it relays the story the 20-year scandal of sub-postmasters who were wrongly prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting, after faults in the Post Office’s digital accounting system Horizon.
