Mr Bates V The Post Office with writer Gwyneth Hughes

Name: Mr Bates V The Post Office with writer Gwyneth Hughes
Start: 2024-11-10T21:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-10T22:15:00+01:00
Location: Todmorden Hippodrome

Schedule

Sun Nov 10 2024 at 09:00 pm to 10:15 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Todmorden Hippodrome | Todmorden, EN

Between 1999 and 2015, postmasters across the country were wrongly prosecuted for stealing because of incorrect information from a computer system called Horizon. The actions of the Post Office caused the loss of jobs, bankruptcy, family breakdown, criminal convictions, prison sentences and at least four suicides.
Go behind the scenes with the writer of the gripping ITV drama in this rare chance to hear more about surely ‘one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history. How did the art of storytelling succeed in finally forcing action where the legal system had failed?
Gwyneth Hughes’s first job in television was on the Yorkshire Television newsdesk. From there she became a Bafta-nominated documentary director specialising in history and true crime, moving into drama on episodes of The Bill and Silent Witness. Her original thriller miniseries Five Days, and her Tippi Hedren biopic The Girl, were both nominated for BAFTAs and the Golden Globes. Her classic dramatisations include The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Vanity Fair. Gwyneth will be in conversation with writer and TV executive Ruth Pitt.