Mr Bates vs The Post Office depicts one of the UK’s worst miscarriages of justice: Here’s why so many victims didn’t speak out

On 1 January Britain’s ITV aired the first episode of a four-part series Mr Bates vs the Post Office. The drama, which looks into the wrongful prosecution of 736 sub-postmasters, has been breaking viewing and streaming records ever since and has seen the UK Government committing, to date, to compensation payments amounting to millions of pounds. In this piece for The Conversation, Grace Augustine, Jan Lodge and Mislav Radic background the scandal and look at why many victims did not speak up