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Denise Welch one of the BBC's best loved actors returns to her home town of Consett to spend a tough week doing the job that, up until now, she's only acted on television. For one week only she's going to be Playing the Part of a real teacher in a real school.
Denise who plays teacher Steph Haydock in BBC1's Waterloo Road will find that in the real world there are no dress rehearsals, no script and no one to shout "Cut!" when it all goes wrong. She's on her own, left to sink or swim.
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Ms Welsh will be taking over from Head of English at Consett Community Sports College. Home to 800 students and the school that once gave an education to a certain Jacqueline Denise Welch.
How will Denise deal with the day to day life of a teacher; lesson planning, marking, disruptive children and inspections? Over the course of the working week, we get to see just how far an actor's life really is from the genuine article.
BBC1, Thursday 21st May at 8pm