Room at the Top (2012 film) 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 issue", and it later emerged that another film company challenged the sale of the TV rights to Great
David Lindsay (novelist) and deep revision of "A Voyage to Arcturus". Bloom, however, has conceded that his late-comer imitation is overwhelmed by Lindsay's great original. David Lindsay (novelist) David Lindsay (3 March 1876 – 16 July 1945) was a British author now best remembered for the philosophical science fiction novel "A Voyage to Arcturus" (1920). Lindsay was born into a middle-class Scottish Calvinist family in London, and was brought up partly in Jedburgh, where he had family background. He was educated at Colfe's School, Lewisham, and won a scholarship to university, but for financial reasons went into business, becoming an insurance clerk at