tonight, we speak live to the real alan bates, the man who dedicated years to bringing the post office scandal to light, and to the woman whose dramatisation for the small screen got a very big reaction. and to gwyneth hughes, the woman whose dramatisation for the small screen has had a very big reaction. wrongful convictions, more than 700 of them prison sentences, reputations trashed, bankruptcy, and now new cases. the post office scandal is only deepening. as we go on air, the petition to strip the former post office boss paula vennells of her cbe is well over a million and the prime minister has said he would support a review of it. it doesn t help the hundreds upon hundreds whose lives were all but destroyed and, in some cases, actually destroyed who will pay their compensation and when? we speak to the subpostmaster at the heart of itv s drama and the writer who s reignited an issue that had slipped from the public consciousness. and we ll be joined by the former
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