Here comes the weekender

Hello secret emailers

It’s been quite a week, and deeply gratifying that so many people appear to be tuning in to the Radio 4 series. Thank you very much if you have taken the time to do so, it really means a lot.

Episode 5 of the Great Post Office Trial goes out today at 1.45pm, and then there is an hour-long omnibus edition at 9pm tonight. Episode 5 is called Follow the Money and it concerns Second Sight’s continued attempts to lift up the Post Office rock as the JFSA wonder askance at the ill-fated Complaint and Mediation Scheme.

Hopefully this episode and/or tonight’s omnibus will leave you wanting to pick things up with Episode 6 on Monday, again at 1.45pm.

Of course you can listen to each 14 minute episode after it has been broadcast on the BBC Sounds website. If you’re feeling technical, you could download the BBC Sounds app to your smartphone, subscribe to the Great Post Office Trial and each episode will appear on your phone automatically.

I am very much hoping the BBC will want to reversion the series as a podcast, which means it will become available on all platforms worldwide, which would be nice.

CCRC meeting

The Criminal Cases Review Commission’s Commissioners met on Wednesday (and possibly yesterday, too). We’re expecting that meeting to decide the fate of the remaining 22 Subpostmasters’ cases currently at the CCRC and also approve the Statement of Reasons being sent out to the 39 people whose cases have already been sent to the Court of Appeal.

I’ve contacted the CCRC to try to get some kind of steer on timescales with regard to any public announcement about both the above. If you are in either group and feel able to share any information that comes your way, please forward it to me and we can discuss how or whether to make it public. I am in contact with at least three people whose cases are with the CCRC, but who weren’t in the initial tranche of 39. I realise this is a difficult time for them and it could get worse if the news is not what they wanted to hear.

The great outdoors

I’m going to try to clock off all things Post Office this weekend. My son turned nine on Tuesday and tonight we are going to experience the joys of a virtual cub camp, which means sleeping out in the garden and sharing our experiences on Zoom with other cubs and their parents who are doing the same. I am not sure whether I am looking forward to this. I should at least probably go and buy a tent.

Look after yourselves. More on Monday.

Cheers

Nick