Private Eye piece on the Post Office Issue 1383

In the issue above, the article below appeared:

If you don't already, have a think about subscribing to Private Eye. It publishes proper, serious investigative journalism, and the cartoons are occasionally funny.

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Inside Out pieces on the Post Office Jan 2015

"I have sufficient cause for concern having looked at material that I have been provided that innocent people might have been wrongly convicted." says Sandip Patel QC.

"Speculation" says the Post Office.

If you want to hear what a contract lawyer has to say about the Subpostmaster contract, what a professor of fraud studies has to say about the Post Office's investigation function, why an MP thinks the Post Office has spent millions of pounds on a "sham" scheme and how dozens of people have been sacked, bankrupted and prosecuted after trouble with the Post Office IT system, please do have a watch of Inside Out tonight.

You can watch it as it goes out at 7.30pm across the UK on BBC1HD.

It will also be on BBC1 South, West, East Midlands, West Midlands and North East and Cumbria, and you can, of course, watch it shortly after transmission on BBC iPlayer.

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The One Show commissions: Post Office pts 1 and 2

The clip below features the first film I have made for BBC1's The One Show and subsequent live sofa chat with Matt Baker and Alex Jones. This story was called a "national scandal" in parliament last week.

It was commissioned internally as an Inside Out South production and broadcast on Tuesday 9 Dec 2014. 

It is about the Post Office Horizon computer system, a story I have been following for some time. If you are interested in that sort of thing, or just want to see me sitting on a sofa next to John Cleese, please watch it. 

The film below is a follow up piece, broadcast on Wednesday 17 Dec 2014. It moves the story on and widens it out. 

The broadcast was timed to coincide with an adjournment debate on the Post Office at Westminster Hall, and I was able to incorporate what happened at the debate into my sofa chat (where I got to sit alongside Greg Davies, Michael Ball and Victoria Wood).

 

If you have never come across this story before these two short films are as good a starting point as any. If you can't watch video - I'd thoroughly recommend clicking on the link directly below - a full transcript of James Arbuthnot MP's adjournment debate on the Post Office Horizon system and mediation scheme.

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Further reading: 


Select Committee inquiry written and oral evidence - Feb 2015 
Private Eye pieces about the Select Committee inquiry
Full transcript of Adjournment Debate - Dec 2014  
Private Eye piece about the adjournment debate
The One Show Commissions - Dec 2014
Legal fisking of the 2010 Seema Misra trial by Stephen Mason written in 2016
Second Sight Briefing Report pt 2 - Exclusive
Second Sight interim report July 2013 
My first BBC film on the subject in 2011
Transcript of my first BBC radio piece on the subject in 2011
Justice for Subpostmasters Alliance 
Computer Weekly Timeline 
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