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Similarly, in the mid-twentieth century texts the protagonist is frequently shown in contrast to weaker men including Johnson in This Sporting Life, 'the withered limb of my ambition', or in the case of Joe Lampton in Room at the Top with the ordinary man on the bus who has a 'mass-produced face'.

The six-part series will be fronted by Room at the Top presenter Stephen Jardine and filming starts next month.

The report predicts that media players will take a leading position in the industry, although there will also be room at the top for operators who lead the way with location-based services, national reach and personalised content.

Some examples of the modern, postwar antihero, as defined by the "angry young man" generation of writers, include Joe Lampton, in John Braine's Room at the Top (1957), and Arthur Seaton, in Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958).

There is room at the top for the executive computer, but changes must be made o both sides.

Room at the Top BBC Four, Wednesday & Thursday, 9pm The first screen version since the controversial Oscar-winning 1959 film, Room at the Top, is an iconic story based in post-war Yorkshire that centres on Joe (Matthew McNulty), a working class man with great ambition.

The star, who appeared in many west end productions and films such as A Clockwork Orange and Room At The Top, died in a London hospital after a battle with cancer.

If you fancy mingling with the celebs go for a cocktail at the Boom Boom Room at the top of the Standard Hotel where stars such as Madonna and Jude Law have been spotted.

Room at the top: Abbi Watson and Julia South are at the front of the long queue, inset, for Jimmy Choo shoes at the Bullring.

"Not so long ago," the first story begins, "in one of those small, carefree lands that used to be so common but which now, alas, are hardly to be found, there was a prince whose name was Ibrahim." As the collection proceeds, we encounter a range of classic tropes: an outcast son, a maiden locked in a tower, a forbidden room at the top of the stairs, a child (two, actually) of mysterious parentage.

A I met a woman who lived in a water tower and she had her sofa BUILT in the sitting room at the top because she couldn't get it up the stairs.

STV bosses pulled the plug on Room at the Top, the first live daytime chat show north of the border, after less than a year.

There is also a function room at the top of the stand and a new restaurant, as well as lifts for disabled punters.

With the additional floor space generated by the setback configuration, Portzamparc has created a remarkable room at the top that outshines any other like it in New York.

Braine was working as a librarian when Room at the Top appeared.