Ahead of the Class

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.

• Adrian ShergoldDirector
• Paul HeardOriginal Music Composer
• Robert JonesWriter

• Julie WaltersMarie Stubbs
• Reece DinsdaleSean Devlin
• Tony SlatteryStuart Stiles
• Michelle FairleySonia Venning
• Inday BaTrudy Gower
• Anton LesserGraham Ranger
• Danny NussbaumThomas Moreira
• Hannah YellandTracey O'Leary
• Adrian RawlinsTony Mackersie
• Katherine ParkinsonVicky Foley
• Calum MacNabJason Foley
• Bernard HolleyBill Stubbs