The Sponge Room is an Australian television film which aired in 1964 on ABC.
Produced in Melbourne,[3] it aired in a 50-minute time-slot and was an adaptation of an overseas stage play, written by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse.
A married man secretly meets with a woman each week at the natural history museum in London.
[5] The play had been produced on stage in Sydney that year under the direction of Ken Hannam.
[9] The Sydney Morning Herald praised Barton using "the extremely effective device" of a background of "complete silence from start to finish".