Mr Bates Vs The Post Office wins Bafta but fight for victims ‘not over yet’ - The four-part series tells the story about subpostmasters being wrongly convicted of offences such as fraud because of faulty software.

This true David vs. Goliath fight tells the story of a local postal worker blamed by his employer, the government-owned post office,

Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which aired in January 2024, dramatised the fight of sub-postmasters accused of stealing money from the post office. Led by Toby Jones' Alan Bates, the four-part drama reignited public interest in the scandal and led to compensation for hundreds of sub-postmasters and changes in the law.