Mr Bates vs the Post Office writer discusses ‘astonishing’ response to ITV drama

Mr Bates vs the Post Office writer discusses 'astonishing' response to ITV dramaLorraine, ITV

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00:00 Surely there's something wrong with a system that it takes someone like yourself,

00:03 I know how hard you worked and how long you worked on the script and how long you worked

00:07 on the whole production, it just seems extraordinary that it had to be that to effect change.

00:13 Well we were building on a great foundation, lots of journalism, lots of campaigning down the years

00:19 but yeah, the visibility of all this since our drama is amazing but I don't know, we were really

00:25 surprised how successful it's been. I mean just astonished, we weren't expecting this level of

00:30 impact, a welcome impact but I think when you think about it, I mean it's what drama was designed to

00:35 do, you know reach out the screen, grab you by the throat, say watch me, care about me, be scared,

00:41 be amused, be sad. We have an absolutely unique ability to reach people's hearts and somehow

00:48 this time we reached millions of people's hearts and we did that as a team, you know not just ITV

00:53 but we're working so closely with Jo and Alan and all the others, we really worked as a team for three years.