Screenplay: John Braine

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Simone Signoret · Laurence Harvey · Heather Sears · Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis The English factory town is dreary but Joe Lampton has landed a job with a future. To have something to do at night he joins a theatrical group. His boss's daughter Susan is playing ingenue roles on stage and in...

Direction Mike Vardy

Cast Kenneth Haigh · Nanette Newman · Harry Andrews · William Lucas

Synopsis A man becomes involved with a pharmaceutical concern that has moved a drug to market too quickly, rendering hundreds of African women sterile. When the man approaches his superior, he finds that, perhaps, he is in over his head.

Direction Aisling Walsh

Cast Matthew McNulty · Tom Brooke · Julia Ford · Peter Wight

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

Direction John Braine

Cast Kenneth Haigh · Zena Walker · Paul Hardwick · Avice Landone

Synopsis TV Series (1970-1972). 2 Seasons. TV Series about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain.