Jul 21, 2024

Post Office drama star meets real-life victims of scandal

BBC. The night before Will Mellor was offered a part in a TV drama about a scandal at the Post Office, he was thinking about giving up acting altogether. ITV. Twenty-five years after the first convictions for theft and fraud, the four-part drama sparked mass public interest in the Post Office scandal like never before. The Post Office told the BBC it is sorry for the suffering caused to so many people, adding that it now works in partnership with postmasters and is "committed to transforming the organisation". In a new BBC documentary Surviving the Post Office, Will revisits the story which has become such a large part of his life. Surviving the Post Office is available to watch on iPlayer from 22 July and on BBC One at 20.30 BST. An accompanying podcast, The Post Office Scandal, will be released on BBC Sounds the same day.

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