The Mayfair Set

1 series•Entertainment / Factual
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Adam Curtis explores the decline of Britain as a world power, the proliferation of asset stripping in the 70s, and how buccaneer capitalists helped to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, by focusing on London's elite Clermont Club in the 60s.

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Episode 1Who Pays Wins

The story of Colonel David Stirling and the birth of the global arms trade in the 1960s. Contains some upsetting scenes.

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Episode 2Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V.

Entrepreneur Spelt S.P.I.V. The rise of the accountant, game theorist and asset stripper Jim Slater.

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Episode 3Destroy the Technostructure

How James Goldsmith became one of the world's richest men.

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Episode 4Twilight of the Dogs

By the 1980s, the day of the buccaneering tycoons was over.

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