The Mayfair Set - Episode 1: Who Pays Wins (Part 1/6) [Adam Curtis Documentary]

The Mayfair Set is a series of programmes produced by Adam Curtis for the BBC, first broadcast in the summer of 1999.

The programme looked at how buccaneer capitalists of hot money were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland, all members of The Clermont club in the 1960s. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000.

The opening episode, Who Pays Wins, focuses on Colonel David Stirling.

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[Transpersonals]

Do you have any idea how much time and energy and concentration is required to make a piece of art like this? Adam Curtis is a fucking genius. End of.

[DickCabezaLtd]

00:00 to 02:48 is awesome.

[malkooth]

@fredheymans You should dig im up and suck his dick congratulatory like.

[malkooth]

@Transpersonals You are spot on Transpersonals.  Curtis is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

[fredheymans]

Legends, need people Like Stirling to counter the Wild East/ China influence and restore a Great Old European influence back on the world.

[michaeljosephfaherty]

great series



[thatwilldonicely]

one of the greatest documentary series ever seen on uk tv, brilliant, challenging and downright interesting!!

[verbusen]

Thanks for posting, I was curious after reading about Stirling. Sad that no one makes documentaries about the radical leftists, just to give people some balance, but not likely the BBC would do anything like that, unless it was a hero piece.

[47antony]

greed,greed,greed.............­.......