Nick Wallis & Robert (Rab) Thomson (13:30 BST)

In April 2021, the Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of 39 former Sub-Postmasters and ruled their prosecutions were an affront to the public conscience. They were just a few of the hundreds who had been prosecuted by the Post Office using IT evidence from an unreliable computer system called Horizon. When the Post Office became aware that Horizon didn't work properly, it covered it up.

In The Great Post Office Scandal, journalist and broadcaster Nick Wallis, reporter on the scandal for over ten years who acted as consultant on the ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, recounts hitherto untold stories. Giving voice to the many innocent people who had their lives ruined by a once-loved national institution that has become a byword for corporate callousness and incompetence Wallis narrates how, against overwhelming odds, they fought back to clear their names.

Joining Nick Wallis will be Robert (Rab) Thomson who was Sub-Postmaster at Alloa, wrongly convicted of theft in 2006, and whose case in 2024 became the first in Scotland to be quashed by the Court of Session. He will talk about the tragic impact and emotional toll the Post Office prosecution has had, and continues to have, on him and his family.

In conversation with Sheena McDonald

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