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The Post Office Scandal

Newscast

BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today we look at the Post Office Scandal, where over 700 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses were wrongly prosecuted due to a flaw in a computer system.

Adam is joined by former sub-postmistress, Jo Hamilton, the writer of the ITV drama ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ Gwyneth Hughes and former Government minister for postal affairs, Paul Scully.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Joe Wilkinson and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.8

Hello, we've talked a lot this week about whether you watched the Traitors or the Darts.

0:11.0

Then we got this email from Angela, she says I watched neither as I was engrossed in

0:16.4

Mr Bates versus the post office a far more significant and challenging subject worthy of your attention.

0:23.4

Well, Angela, I couldn't agree with you more.

0:25.8

I have been watching Mr Bates versus the post office on I TVX, which is I TV's app.

0:31.9

Lots of people have been watching it every night this week on the

0:35.1

telly and that's what we're going to dedicate this episode of newscast too because

0:40.0

it's a massive story about something that's been called one of the biggest

0:43.3

miscarriages of justice in British history. That's on this episode of

0:46.8

a newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Why can't people buy a house? Look at

0:52.0

their wages.

0:52.8

Do you have any questions on things that are not related to math?

0:54.8

People who say that we were partying simply do not know what they are talking about.

0:59.2

The era of global warming has ended.

1:01.7

The era of global boiling has arrived.

1:04.0

It's the first time ever I've been able to say, well done Kia.

1:08.0

I'll end by tempting her to update newscast and update this house.

1:12.0

The Prime Minister is not under a desk.

1:14.3

Hello it's Adam in the studio and we're going to dedicate this whole episode of

1:18.4

newscast to the real life story behind the hugely successful I TV drama Mr Bates versus the post office.

1:26.8

This is the case of hundreds of sub-postmasters, so who ran little post offices up and down

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