Investigating the Post Office Scandal – the podcast

Rebecca Thomson and Nick Wallis cover the ongoing Post Office Horizon IT scandal. This podcast is entirely funded by donation, but it is free to listen to, either by streaming through your browser from the Audioboom website, or by searching for it in Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. We hope you like it.

30: Ep 30 – Post Office Minister on launch of GLO scheme Investigating the Post Office Scandal

In which the Post Office Minister Kevin Hollinrake explains the new compensation scheme for Postmasters who were part of the High Court group litigation, declares the Historical Shortfall Scheme fit for purpose, says he wants people held to account over the Horizon scandal and appears ready to support a Duty of Candour law if it prevents something similar happening again. After the interview with Mr Hollinrake, Nick speaks once more to Lee Castleton, a likely applicant to the scheme, nineteen years to the day after Post Office auditors walked into Lee's branch and closed it down, setting him on the path to bankruptcy and ruining his life. Government's compensation scheme for Group Litigation Subpostmasters: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/compensation-scheme-for-group-litigation-order-case-postmasters Post Office Horizon IT inquiry legal advice on bankruptcies: https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/legal-opinion-catherine-addy-kc-matters-relating-bankruptcy-and-compensation A longer interview with Lee Castleton: https://audioboom.com/posts/8156279-ep-10-lee-castleton-justice-for-subpostmasters-alliance-founding-member Rebecca's Substack page: https://rebeccathomson.substack.com Nick's Post Office Scandal website: https://www.postofficescandal.uk/donate/ Nick's book: https://bathpublishing.com/products/the-great-post-office-scandal-updated-pbk Rebecca's first investigation for Computer Weekly in 2009: https://www.computerweekly.com/news Update Description
  1. 30: Ep 30 – Post Office Minister on launch of GLO scheme
  2. 29: Ep 29 – So That Was The End of Part 2 of Phase 3 of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry
  3. 28: Ep 28 – A bit of Neidle
  4. 27: Ep 27 – The Sethis wait and wait and wait
  5. 26: Ep 26 – Alan Bates No.B.E.
  6. 25: Ep 25 – The Compensation Crunch
  7. 24: Ep 24 – Meet the Ministers
  8. 23: Ep 23 – Byers Beware
  9. 22: Ep 22 – Dave the Destroyer
  10. 21: Ep 21 – The Special Laptop!
  11. 20: Ep 20 – Master interview: Lord Arbuthnot
  12. 19: Ep 19 – Dark secrets about Horizon's birth revealed
  13. 18: Ep 18 – Miller Time
  14. 17: Ep 17 – The Oppenheim Project
  15. 16: Ep 16 – Inquiry digs in to how Subpostmasters were set up to fail
  16. 15: Ep 15 – Inquiry phase 2 Wk 1: Tony Blair et al under scrutiny
  17. 14: Ep 14 – Inquiry Re-start Primer, David Enright interview, Crowdfunding launch!
  18. 13: Ep 13 – Turning the Post Office scandal into a play
  19. 12: Ep12 – Deirdre Connolly – a Subpostmaster who still hasn't had any interim compensation
  20. 11: Ep 11 – Former Subpostmaster Tim Brentnall on his secret trip to the Inquiry
  21. 10: Ep 10 – Lee Castleton: Justice For Subpostmasters Alliance founding member
  22. 9: Ep 9 – Being John O'Sullivan, Rebel with a Cause
  23. 8: Ep 8 – Paul Marshall on the Secret Chairman's Review and why he wrote to the DPP
  24. 7: Ep 7 – Interview with Dr Hannah Quirk, miscarriages of justice expert
  25. 6: Ep 6 – Richard Hawkes on his quashed conviction and Professor Richard Moorhead on legal ethics
  26. 5: Ep 5 – Postmaster and CWU rep Mark Baker signs off
  27. 4: Ep 4 – The Statutory Inquiry's Second Compensation hearing
  28. 3: Ep 3 – Statutory Inquiry Postmaster compensation hearing (at The Oval!)
  29. 2: Ep 2 – More Postmaster convictions quashed at Southwark Crown Court
  30. 1: Ep 1 – Introducing Rebecca, Nick and the Post Office scandal