Educating Yorkshire: One Year On (Channel 4, 9pm)

THE Gareth Gates-style footage showing Musharaf Asghar finally conquering his horrendous stammer and delivering a speech in the original series of Educating Yorkshire was one of those moments in reality TV that I’ll never forget.

Thanks to Thornhill Community Academy, Dewsbury, assistant head and English teacher Matthew Burton suggesting that Musharaf tried listening to music on his iPod while reading aloud Margaret Atwood’s The Moment – this being an essential part of his English GCSE – we gained a tear-jerker to rival The King’s Speech.

The series went on to win Most Popular Documentary at the National Television Awards and now we follow what happened to Musharaf and the other pupils and teachers featured in this heart-warming look at the perils of dealing with pupils.

A lot of what we saw is down to the ebullient headteacher Jonny Mitchell, who has forged a dedicated staff to pull Thornhill up the Ofsted rankings and has seen a surge in applications since the showing of the first series last year.

Hopefully we’re happy with discovering what’s happened to political-leader-in-the-making Ryan “'I shaved all my eyebrows off” Bailey. Musharaf is now at college and following his dream of becoming a teacher, even though he still has a long way to go in terms of his pronounced stammer. Sheridan is learning to drive and hoping to finally achieve that elusive C-grade in Maths; Bailey is dreaming of enrolling on a singing course at Leeds College of Music, while Georgia gained nine GCSEs, started a beauty course, but now has a new baby to look after. Younger pupils like chatterbox Robbie Joe are still in school uniform and continue to leave their mark.

As well as Mr Burton, who doesn’t quite live up to his surname by wearing jackets a size or two too small for him, we seek out stressed-out Mr Steer as the school again prepares for the end of the school GCSE exams (which just happen to be due today).

For Mr Mitchell, it's been a whirlwind year, and he says: “I get paid to come to work and do a job that I love doing. The first day that I walk into school of a morning and think, ‘I don't want to be here today’ is the time that I think headteacher is not the role for me anymore."

Mr Burton adds: “I saw Mushy just after he’d seen it (the speech). I said, ‘What did you think?’, and he said, ‘It’s all right. My mum and sister were crying their eyes out. ‘What about your dad?’ ‘Oh yeah, he was crying a bit too’.”

Russia's Lost Princesses (BBC2, 8pm)

FASCINATION will always remain over the four Russian princesses brought up in splendid isolation, only to then be killed by revolutionaries amid rumours (now discredited) that one of them managed to escape. No wonder the story went on to form the basis of a fanciful animated children's movie. This new two-part programme attempts to strip away the myths and tell the true story of Tsar Nicholas II's daughters Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia.

Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC1, 9pm)

NEW Tricks star Tamzin Outhwaite moves on to more detective work in this latest edition of Who Do You Think You Are?, as she goes in search of her roots. There are a lot of cockneys in her family tree, but there's also a distinctly Italian influence. So, she's particularly interested in finding out more about her great-grandfather, former cafe owner Tony Gonella, and his rags-to-riches tale takes her to Italy, Glasgow and the Isle of Man.