Room at the Top

Overview

Joe leaves working-class, industrial Dufton behind him and takes a job as senior audit clerk at the town hall in affluent Warley. He takes lodgings at the poshest part of the town and starts to make his mark on local society.

Network

• BBC Four

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Matthew McNulty

  Joe Lampton

  2 eps

• 

  Tom Brooke

  Charles

  2 eps

• 

  Jenna Coleman

  Susan Brown

  2 eps

• 

  Maxine Peake

  Alice Aisgill

  2 eps

Themes

• england
• yorkshire
• working class
• class differences
• period drama
• social status
• extramarital affair
• woman director
• social climbing
• 1940s

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