The Great Post Office Trial

Publisher:
BBC Radio 4

The Great Post Office Trial

5.0/5

Critic Rating

An investigation of the largest miscarriage of justice in UK legal history. It's the story of how the Post Office systematically persecuted honest people, and how a small band of victims fought back in the face of impossible odds.


Critic Reviews

Score: 5

Miranda Sawyer • The Guardian Feb 15, 2025

"Much of it is centred on ex-Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells, who doesn’t come across well, being at once bewildered and bewildering; so incurious and sappy as to provoke laughter from the public gallery...Wallis is great at pushing both the new interim head of the Post Office, Neil Brocklehurst, and the MP Gareth Thomas, the minister now in charge of the victims’ compensation..."

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