The British Post Office scandal, in which thousands of postmasters were erroneously accused of fraud, is the focus of a four-part docudrama that made waves in the U.K. and comes to the U.S. Sunday on PBS.
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UK writer Kathryn Flett reviews Mr Bates VS The Post Office, the ITV drama exploring the scandal in which 3,500 sub-postmasters were wrongly blamed for a computer system s financial errors.