Room at the Top (2012 film) Meadow Productions, which produced the film for BBC. It won a BAFTA Award for Best Miniseries in 2013. Room at the Top (2012 film) 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 Coleman, and directed by Aisling Walsh. It aired in two parts on 26 and 27 September 2012 on BBC Four, but was originally due to premiere on 7 April 2011. A statement at the time said that delay was due to "a potential contractual
British Museum Reading Room of Anabel Donald's 1994 novel is the ceiling of the Reading Room, where the denouement is set. Alfred Hitchcock used the Reading Room and the dome of the British Museum as a location for the climax of his first sound film "Blackmail" (1929). Other movies with key scenes in the Reading Room include "Night of the Demon" (1957) and in the 2001 Japanese anime OVA "Read or Die", the Reading Room is used as the secret entrance to the British Library's fictional "Special Operations Division". Probably the first work of fiction in which the British Museum Reading Room plays an