The Post Office tried to change the storyline of Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the man behind the hit ITV drama, right, has told The Londoner. Producer Patrick Spence said that when he approached Post Office execs with the dramatisation they offered to cooperate in exchange for script amendments. “What they offered to do was to change our story to suit their purposes,” Spence told us. “They were obviously keen to change the narrative, but we had our facts and they couldn’t stop us.”
The script relies heavily on public documents and emails written by Post Office employees, including the CEO at the time of the Horizon scandal, Paula Vennells, pictured. Spence said the Post Office was “so litigious and ghastly that we couldn’t take the risk of inventing anything for fear that they would stop it from being transmitted”.
