The Post Office Scandal | The Barrister Who Broke the Case Open | 4
British Scandal
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4.4 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Alice and Matt sit down with Paul Marshall, the barrister who helped reveal the truth behind the Horizon scandal - and nearly paid the price for it himself. He tells us how he uncovered an explosive legal opinion that exposed misleading evidence, discredited a key witness and helped overturn dozens of wrongful convictions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, a quick note before we start. |
| 0:01.7 | The following episode does cover some serious topics, including a description of a suicide attempt. |
| 0:07.7 | If you or someone you know is struggling with their mental health, please see the episode notes for information about support services. |
| 0:17.6 | From Audible Originals, I'm Alice Levine. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm Matt Ford. |
| 0:21.5 | And this is British Scandal. |
| 0:36.2 | Okay, Matt, we're at the end of one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in British history, the post office scandal. |
| 0:43.3 | How are you feeling? |
| 0:44.3 | I feel so many different things. I still feel livid on behalf of the subpostmasters. |
| 0:49.4 | I still feel sad about it. Mainly just disbelief. |
| 0:52.7 | Yeah, it's really confusing. On the surface, it looked like |
| 0:55.4 | a victory. There were convictions overturned, names cleared, and of course the subpostmasters |
| 1:00.1 | were finally believed. Yeah, but scratch that surface and it's still grim because the people |
| 1:04.7 | who suffered lost everything and the biggest organisations involved are still standing. It feels like |
| 1:09.6 | David beats Goliath and then |
| 1:11.7 | Goliath walks off into the sunset with a full wallet. Yes. And to really stretch this analogy to |
| 1:16.7 | its limits, David is the subpostmasters, but David needed a catapult to help beat Goliath. |
| 1:25.3 | Right. And I think we're stretching it too far. |
| 1:27.9 | It's not good, is it? |
| 1:29.4 | Basically, to take on an institution like the post office, backed by the state with serious money, |
| 1:34.9 | the respect of the nation, decades of authority, you need someone in your corner who's pretty fearless, |
| 1:41.3 | someone that knows the law inside out. |
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