Mr. Bates vs the Post Office DVD / directed by James Strong ; written by Gwyneth Hughes ; produced by Chris Clough.

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: MS62403 | PBSPublisher: [Arlington, VA] : PBS, [2024]Description: 2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9781531717124
1531717128

Other title:

Mister Bates versus the Post office

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Contained within (work) : Masterpiece theatre (Television program)

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DDC classification:

791.43/72 23/eng/20240402

LOC classification:

PN1997.2 .M73 2024

Cast: Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Shaun Dooley, Ian Hart, Alex Jennings, Katherine Kelly, Will Mellor, Amy Nuttall, Amit Shah, Krupa Pattani, Lia Williams, Ifan Huw Dafydd.Summary: After a computer system upgrade, money started to seemingly disappear from British post office branches, and the managers were blamed -- accused of theft, fired, and many charged and sent to prison -- leaving lives, marriages, and reputations in ruins. When Alan Bates was fired, he refused to accept the blame, instead bringing together a group of other wrongly-accused sub-postmasters to form an alliance to fight one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
MOVIE	Meaford Public Library New Movie	Non-fiction	DVD MrBat (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	NewSeries	09/23/2024	30642

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Originally broadcast on television in 2024.

Includes the documentary The Real Story of Mr Bates vs The Post Office!" directed by Clare Richards.

Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Shaun Dooley, Ian Hart, Alex Jennings, Katherine Kelly, Will Mellor, Amy Nuttall, Amit Shah, Krupa Pattani, Lia Williams, Ifan Huw Dafydd.

After a computer system upgrade, money started to seemingly disappear from British post office branches, and the managers were blamed -- accused of theft, fired, and many charged and sent to prison -- leaving lives, marriages, and reputations in ruins. When Alan Bates was fired, he refused to accept the blame, instead bringing together a group of other wrongly-accused sub-postmasters to form an alliance to fight one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history.