Many TV viewers shed tears watching Musharaf Asghar, the teenager with a terrible stammer in Educating Yorkshire, overcome his difficulties in the Channel 4 documentary.
And a new programme next week will show how the Yorkshire youngster took the next steps to beat his stammer with the help of a college lecturer from Gloucestershire.
Rich Whincup, who teaches at Hartpury College grew up in Stow-on-the-Wold with a severe stammer.
But he has used his experiences of a particular type of therapy to help Musharaf, and that will be shown on Channel 4 next Thursday in .
Rich, 34, said: "My family and friends were all very supportive when I was in a small village environment as was the Cotswold School, everyone knew me.
"I couldn't make speeches as head boy but I didn't struggle otherwise at school, but when I went to college in Solihull aged 19 I was out of my small, very supportive environment.
"That was much tougher, I couldn't ask for things and I had to give presentations on my sports science course which were terrible.
"One person fell asleep because he was bored and I didn't blame him."
By chance Rich'smother saw a card for the McGuire Programme – a four-day course of treatment for stammerers
Rich, who lives with wife Vicki and sons Tom and Luke in Tewkesbury, said: "I didn't think it would work until I went to a presentation and then after a four-day residential course in Bournemouth I was in control of my speech."
Since then Rich has had no fear of speaking; he lectures at Hartpury and coaches his son's rugby team at Tewkesbury Tigers.
He also continues to work with the McGuire programme as a trainer of tutors and coaches and a course director, though that is a voluntary role.
After the airing of Educating Yorkshire, the McGuire Programme offered to help Musharaf, which production company TwoFour wanted to film, and Rich was selected as his course director.
He said: "It was like nothing I've ever experienced. There were lights and cameras, I was wired for sound I was wearing make-up because my head was too shiny for the HD cameras.
"One day I had to find yesterday's shirt to put it on for a retake.
"But the five students, including Musharaf really raised their game and I think I did and the coaches working one-to-one with the stammerers did as well.
"People will have seen Musharaf helped by wearing headphones. But that's a quick fix and you can't do everything wearing headphones.
"The McGuire Programme makes you confront your stammer and gives you tools, like breathing techniques and psychological work, to gain control of your stammer."
Things are much better for stammerers now, the King's Speech was massive and people now understand what it is rather than just thinking what's wrong with your speech."
Stammer School: Musharaf Finds His Voice is broadcast on Thursday at 9pm on Channel 4.
