Room at the Top

About Room at the Top

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.

BBC Four's Room at the Top is a drama series. It reached one season of 2 episodes from September 2012.

The series is filed under 1940s, extramarital affair, yorkshire, and class differences. Matthew McNulty stars as Joe Lampton, Tom Brooke as Charles, Jenna Coleman as Susan Brown, and Maxine Peake as Alice Aisgill.

Downton Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and Belgravia make useful companions to Room at the Top, all filed under england and period drama.