Five, four, three, two, two, one, one, one, one, one, One. Normal, the Telegraph Podcasts with Allison Pearson.

Hello?

And me, Liam Halligan.

Co-pilot Pearson and I are on our summer break,

but to help keep you sane, dear citizens of Planet Normal,

while we're away, we're bringing you some of our biggest interviews from

our recent archive. The discussions we've had on Planet Normal, the Rocket of Right Thinking,

the Flying Refuge of Reasoned Views.

Now back in January, just after the realities of the post office scandal had come to the fore,

courtesy of a hard-hitting I-TV drama,

the true scale of the injustice was laid bare for all to see.

Allison spoke to an anonymous insider from Fijitsu, the Japanese company that designed and

managed the Horizon online accounting system

that had caused so many problems for post office

postmasters trying to balance their books.

Over 900 sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted for stealing because of incorrect

information from Horizon with many cents of prison for false accounting and

theft resulting in financial ruin.

In mid-January, Planet Normal featured an interview with Robin, not their real name, who worked at

Fijisu in the mid-2000s and described Horizon as, obsolete only a few years after its rollout

Allison started by asking Robin whether the I TV drama of the post office scandal

was an accurate representation of the system's failures.

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