The latter drama sparked public outrage and dominated front page headlines for weeks, bringing attention to a severe issue that had gone unnoticed by large swathes of the general public for more than two decades.
Yet even The Hack screenwriter Jack Thorne confessed to not understanding the true meaning of the story until setting out to write this dramatisation, which stars David Tennant, Robert Carlyle and Mr Bates himself, Toby Jones.
"Mr Bates was a coming together of many different factors, and also it was about ordinary working people being treated abhorrently," he continued.
Spence conceded that while he doesn't expect The Hack "to make the entire country angry" as Mr Bates vs The Post Office did, he and his team can't deny that they "still dream a little of it".
At a Q&A following a screening of the first two episodes, The Hack writer Thorne shared that his perception of the phone-hacking scandal – and its importance – changed fundamentally after researching the details for his scripts.
"My assumption was that the drama was in the journalists behaving badly, whereas actually, it's in the response of the world to this story being broken by these brave people," he explained.
He added: "There was a complacency in how people were prepared to look at themselves and look at their relationships. And trying to understand that felt like a very urgent task, and one that I was very, very keen to be involved in."
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