| Hope and Glory | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Lucy Gannon |
| Directed by | Juliet May and others |
| Starring | Lenny Henry Amanda Redman Clive Russell Gillian Kearney |
| Theme music composer | Nick Bicât |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Mal Young and Lucy Gannon |
| Producer | Nicolas Brown |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One |
| Release | 22 June 1999 – 5 November 2000 |
| Related | |
| Waterloo Road | |
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Hope and Glory is a BBC television drama about a comprehensive school struggling with financial, staffing and disciplinary problems, and faced with closure. It starred Lenny Henry as maverick "Superhead" Ian George, enlisted to turn around the school's fortunes.
It was created by Lucy Gannon, who had previously created Soldier Soldier, and was inspired by a real head teacher named William Atkinson, who had turned around a secondary school in London which had been placed into special measures.[1][2][3]
- ^ Cassidy, Sarah (26 August 2005). "Poor pupils funded by tycoon secure top grades". The Independent. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ^ Atkinson, William (17 January 2006). "A loss of courage, will and faith". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ^ Taylor, Cyril; Ryan, Conor (2013). Excellence in Education: The Making of Great Schools. Routledge. p. 179.