Bafta winner ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office' led to real change – here are six more TV shows that did the same
The most popular winner at the weekend's Bafta television awards was, without doubt, ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which won for Best Limited Drama.
The four-parter powerfully dramatised the British Post Office scandal, a miscarriage of justice in which hundreds of sub-postmasters were wrongly prosecuted, privately and publicly, for theft, false accounting or fraud due to a faulty computer system called Horizon.
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