The Choir

Gareth Malone takes his choral mission to the Lancaster School, an all-boys' school in Leicester which, like the school in the first series, has no previous singing tradition. The single-sex education setting focuses the programme on issues of gender as Malone tackles the perception that "boys don’t sing". Gareth Malone joins the teaching staff and has to work to gain the trust of fellow teachers. His ambition is to form a 100-strong, all-boys choir performing out on the stage alongside the best school choirs in the country as part of the Schools Prom concert at the Royal Albert Hall. As he tries to drive through his ambitious plans, he also has to spend time in classroom teaching, deal with the daily bureaucracy of being a teacher, and coping with staff politics

Choirmaster Gareth Malone tries to get the boys ready for the school summer show

Choirmaster Gareth Malone decides it's time the boys learnt to sing in ancient Italian.

Gareth Malone finds out if his choir will make the grade to perform in the Albert Hall

Gareth Molone returns to Lancaster School to see if he has made a lasting impact