The Mayfair Set

The Mayfair Set
Title screen
Written by	Adam Curtis
Directed by	Adam Curtis Annabel Hobley
Theme music composer	John Barry (theme from Vendetta, BBC 1966–68)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Executive producer	Stephen Lambert
Producers	Adam Curtis Annabel Hobley
Cinematography	David Barker Michael Eley
Running time	240 mins (in four parts)
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	18 July (1999-07-18) – 8 August 1999 (1999-08-08)
Related
The Living Dead (1995) The Century of the Self (2002)
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The Mayfair Set, subtitled Four Stories about the Rise of Business and the Decline of Political Power, is a BBC television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It explores the decline of Britain as a world power, the proliferation of asset stripping in the 1970s, and how buccaneer capitalists helped to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, by focusing on Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, Sir James Goldsmith and Tiny Rowland—members of London's elite Clermont Club in the 1960s. It won a BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000.^[1]

Curtis wanted to engage with the moral ambiguity of figures such as Goldsmith.^[2]