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JULIE HESMONDHALGH

Urgent delivery

ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office dramatises one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history – a scandal that criminalised hundreds of Post Office managers. Writer Gwyneth Hughes, director James Strong and star Toby Jones discuss the importance and difficulty of telling this true story.

JULIE HESMONDHALGH

Word to the wise

Peter Bowker, creator and writer of The A Word, and director Fergus O’Brien discuss making the third season of the BBC family drama and their joy at pushing sidelined characters and stories of disability into the limelight.

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