Published: July 31, 2007
Burnham-On-Sea funeral director to star in new daytime TV quiz show

A Burnham-On-Sea funeral director is set to appear on a BBC TV daytime quiz show during August.

Jane Macpherson, who is Parish Administrator at St Andrew's Church, and Burnham's only qualified female funeral director, has just returned from the BBC's studios where she took part in a new BBC daytime quiz programme called 'Identity', hosted by American singer and musician Donny Osmond.

In the BBC2 series, contestants have to guess the occupations of panelists - and Jane's job as a funeral director therefore had to be disguised.

"I was reading a magazine earlier this year when I noticed the BBC were looking for people with unusual jobs to take part, so thought I'd give it a go," Jane told Burnham-On-Sea.com.

"To try and confuse the contestants, I wore bright red clothes and appeared as relaxed as possible even though I was actually quite nervous with all of the cameras pointing at me!"

Jane survived until the last three panelists on the show and is now looking forward to watching the programme on telly next month. "It was a lot of fun and very different to anything I'd done before," she said.

The image below shows Jane during filming of the show.