Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Matt Roush says...

After years of delays, the underdog sub-postmasters get their day in court against the monolithic Post Office that accused them of theft and fraud, refusing to concede their own technology was at fault. “Look at us. Do we look like criminals?” declares one of the plaintiffs in the stirring and somewhat bittersweet conclusion to the four-part docudrama. “You don’t give up, do you, you awkward sod?” a weepy forensic accountant (Ian Hart) tweaks Alan Bates (Toby Jones), whose dogged efforts to bring his fellow victims together pays off after 20 years. In reality, Bates is still fighting the Post Office, and in a companion documentary, The Real Story of Mr Bates vs the Post Office (11/10c, PBS), the real-life versions of these characters tell their story.

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