For the past few weeks, a TV show has taken the UK by storm.

It's not a period drama like Downtown Abbey or a reality dating show like Love Island.

Instead, it's a TV series about the post office.

Joo. about the post office. How did the post office money get lost?

What is it you've been doing wrong?

I don't know either. I have no idea. Oh I don't want to cry.

Mr Bates versus the post office tells the story of a real life injustice

that ruined thousands of lives across the UK.

It is the biggest miscarriage of justice

in modern British history. That's our colleague Max Colchester.

Over the space of a decade and a half,

people who manage these small post offices

were accused of various crimes including theft and over 200

them went to jail and it turns out that the reason they were found guilty was because of a faulty computer system.

And so their accounts showed a deficit when they shouldn't and they were accused essentially of stealing that money.

Many of the postmasters who were affected were driven into bankruptcy.

At least four people took their own lives. Now, thanks to the TV

show, their stories are resonating with millions of people for the first time and is

forced a reckoning on one of the country's biggest public institutions.

Welcome to the journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Jessica Mendoza. It's Tuesday January 23rd.

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