The Mayfair Set

[Shakespear]

A very good documentary which I found when trying to find out more about Sir James Goldsmith

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mayfair_Set


Much here will remind one that what they did then is the same as what has happened today but on a larger scale.

[LargoWinch]

Re: The Mayfair Set

Thanks for bringing this up Shakespear.

Sneak Peek - Runtime 10min.

[Shakespear]

Re: The Mayfair Set

The best in the all four parts of the documentary.

I had no clue that a lot of the Wall Street (we keep thinking they are the worst) maneuvers and ideas had their roots in The City (London) :rolleyes: