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🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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For writer Gwyneth Hughes, Mr Bates vs The Post Office is the perfect culmination of her years of experience as a journalist, documentarian, and dramatist. This week, Gwyneth joins us to discuss how she adapted this true story for the screen, and the real-life impact of this drama series as the fallout from the scandal continues to echo in Parliament, the courts, and the halls of power in Britain.
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0:42.0 | On the surface, the British Post Office listening to masterpiece studio. |
0:42.9 | On the surface, the British Post Office might not seem like the most interesting subject for |
0:47.4 | a four-part drama mini-series. |
0:50.2 | After all, how much scandal could there be in an institution responsible for |
0:54.8 | handling the mail? |
0:56.8 | However, this is one instance where truth is very much stranger than fiction. Post Office Limited is stealing my livelihood, my shop, my job, my |
1:10.0 | home, my life savings, my good name. |
1:14.0 | When Americans here post office, we generally think of the USPS, |
1:19.0 | a government institution whose employees are federal workers. |
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1:25.3 | neither rain nor sleet nor snow, |
1:28.4 | elements that are no match for the determined mail carriers |
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