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The Generation Why Podcast

Horizon Post Office Scandal - 422

The Generation Why Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Case, Trial, Conspiracies, 855520, Government, Unsolved, Society & Culture, Missing Person, Controversy, Exhibit C, Serial Killer, Crime, Murder, Documentary, Conspiracy

4.618.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

2000's. United Kingdom. During the 2000's, Post Office Ltd discovered that hundreds of their SubPostmasters were stealing money and punished them for it. Well over 700 people were prosecuted or took plea deals resulting in fines and even prison sentences. As the numbers grew and the postmasters suffered, a reality began to sink in; the Horizon system that was built by Fujitsu to handle transactions, stocktaking, and accounting for Post Office was more complex and buggy than they wanted to publicly admit. Join us as we discuss an ongoing case from the United Kingdom that represents one of the greatest preventable injustices of the last 30 years. https://www.jfsa.org.uk/

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From Wondry.

0:35.0

How are you doing tonight, Aaron?

0:46.0

I'm doing fine, Justin. I'm doing pretty good, actually. How are you?

0:50.0

I'm doing okay. Any announcements?

0:53.0

Yes. Recently, I announced that I was on an episode of It's Fightful,

0:58.0

which is a fairly new podcast about spooky stories that people have shared on the web.

1:05.0

I know a while back when we were doing the personal stories,

1:08.0

I had shared a story about seeing an unidentified flying object.

1:12.0

So we all have them, but now there's this podcast that I'm on

1:16.0

where we are narrating those stories, myself and other podcasters.

1:20.0

I know Nina from already gone has been on there.

1:23.0

And so you can expect to hear me on there some more because I'll be on some feature episodes.

1:28.0

So check out It's Fightful.

1:31.0

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1:46.0

and visualize their family's story in more detail than ever before.

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and their detailed rich crime, prison and punishment records reveal the people and stories

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