Man At The Top
It is rather strange that this programme has never drifted into my orbit before, since there was what we would now call a whole franchise around the 'at the top' series of films, book and TV programme. The top part of the title is actually a metaphor for the protagonist's ambitions to better himself: ' Joe Lampton, recently demobilised from the armed forces of late 1940s Britain, is starting in a new job with the Municipal Treasury in the town of Warley. He was a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/POW ">POW who spent his captivity studying to pass his https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountancy ">accountancy examinations. He is an https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan ">orphanwhose parents were killed in an https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airstrike ">air raidagainst his home town. He is determined to make something of himself, targeting a high-paid job with a thousand a year salary. He notices, shortly after arriving, a young man w...