Actor Toby Jones, who played the lead role in the TV series about the Post Office scandal, has said he "played a hero" in the drama. He starred as Alan Bates in the ITV show Mr Bates vs the Post Office, which tells the story of hundreds of sub-postmasters who were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting. Many of the reported losses in branch accounts which led to prosecutions were actually caused by faults in Horizon - the Post Office's computer system. Jones, speaking at the Hay Festival, said Bates - a former sub-postmaster himself, who led the victims' campaign to get justice - "doesn't want any honours until he's finished the job". "I get to play a hero. Really, someone who I think of as a hero. Someone in the culture who just doesn't seem to be subject to the same forces that we all are," the 57-year-old said.