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Room at the Top (2012 TV series)

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Room at the Top is a 2012 BBC television adaptation by Amanda Coe of John Braine's 1957 novel of the same name, with a cast led by Matthew McNulty, Maxine Peake and Jenna Coleman, and directed by Aisling Walsh.

Summary

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Based on John Braine's classic novel about a young man on the make in 1940s Yorkshire. Joe Lampton moves to the wealthy town of Warley.

It's not long before he has attracted the attentions of Susan Brown, a very pretty girl with a rich and successful father. But Joe is already in love with another woman. Older than him and with her looks beginning to fade, Alice Aisgill is married already.

Production

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It aired in two parts on 26 and 27 September 2012 on BBC Four,[1] but was originally due to premiere on 7 April 2011. A statement at the time said that delay was due to "a potential contractual issue",[2] and it later emerged that another film company challenged the sale of the television rights to Great Meadow Productions, which produced the film for BBC.[3] It won a BAFTA Award for Best Miniseries in 2013.[4]

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