Ann McManus interview

In The Guardian, Peter Wilby talks to Ann McManus, creator of series including Waterloo Road (pictured, above).

...she insists that the series is fundamentally pro-teacher. "At its heart is the view that good teachers matter and can make a difference. Teaching is a hard, hard job to do, you can't let slip for a second, and we try to show how difficult that is and how easy it is to make a mistake. I think most of our teachers withstand the test of scrutiny."