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Mr Bates vs The Post Office

8.0/ 102024Episode runtime

Drama

The story of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Toby Jones

Toby Jones

Alan Bates

Julie Hesmondhalgh

Julie Hesmondhalgh

Suzanne Sercombe

Monica Dolan

Monica Dolan

Jo Hamilton

Shaun Dooley

Shaun Dooley

Michael Rudkin

Ian Hart

Ian Hart

Bob Rutherford

Lia Williams

Lia Williams

Paula Vennells

Will Mellor

Will Mellor

Lee Castleton

Amy Nuttall

Amy Nuttall

Lisa Castleton