Ahead of the Class

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2005-08-05

Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is coming up to retirement age, takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in north west London which was facing closure after the notorious murder of its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, in 1995 as he was breaking up a fight between his pupils and those from a rival school.

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Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is coming up to retirement age, takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in north west London which was facing closure after the notorious murder of its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, in 1995 as he was breaking up a fight between his pupils and those from a rival school.

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2005-08-05

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Adrian Shergold

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Drama

TV Movie

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English

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ARG Televison

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Ahead of the Class

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Julie Walters

Reece Dinsdale

Tony Slattery

Michelle Fairley

Inday Ba

Anton Lesser

Danny Nussbaum

Hannah Yelland

Adrian Rawlins

Katherine Parkinson

Calum MacNab

Bernard Holley

Mercedes Grower

Alan McKenna

Kate Lonergan

Neville Jason

Heather Craney

Amy Jo Lamb

Frances Gold

Heshima Thompson

Daniel Anthony

Jack Bence

Tina Asihene

Bhima Bent

Gerard Canning

Amanda Fahy

Gemma Lawrence

Kanana Kirimi

Rosalind March

Martin Savage

Charles Mnene

Luke Savva

Gem Souleyman

James Wong

Stuart Antony

Jason Frederick

Dario Attanasio

Millie Foster

Clara Foster