Nick Wallis: Exposing the Post Office scandal
Full Disclosure with James O'Brien
Global
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Nick Wallis was presenting the breakfast show for BBC Radio Surrey in 2010 when he was contacted by a listener with a story he’s been investigating ever since. Nick helped expose one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK legal history – the Post Office Horizon IT scandal that has devastated the lives of hundreds of innocent hardworking people across the country. His work has been published in Private Eye and broadcast on BBC Panorama, The One Show and BBC Radio 4. It is also the basis of his first book, The Great Post Office Scandal.
Tickets for his show, Post Office Scandal - the Inside Story are available at postofficescandal.uk
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| 0:32.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm Global Player Original Podcast Hello and welcome to full disclosure. A podcast project conceived to let me spend more time than I would ever get on the radio show with interesting people and or people with interesting stories to tell. |
| 0:55.8 | And this week's guest, Nick Wallace, is definitely both of those things. I presume at the moment, |
| 1:01.6 | Nick, for people who don't know who you are, you were the sort of not the very, very first journalist to shine a light upon what has now become known as the post office scandal. |
| 1:10.5 | But certainly one of the loudest and earliest voices, I presume everybody wants a piece of |
| 1:15.1 | view at the moment. |
| 1:15.7 | Is there a frustration at all that it's taken this long to garner the attention it's now |
| 1:20.8 | receiving? |
| 1:21.5 | It's pure gratitude. |
| 1:22.4 | Is it? |
| 1:22.7 | Just for getting the story out there and seeing it land with so many millions of people now |
| 1:28.3 | and the outrage generated by it it's just wonderful to witness because I was always aware that |
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