London's Clermont Club in the 1960s brought together a set of gamblers and financiers who would go on to reshape British business and politics: Colonel David Stirling, founder of the SAS, plus Jim Slater, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland. Adam Curtis's four-part series for the BBC follows each man's rise as they moved from the card tables of Mayfair into corporate raiding, asset stripping, and political maneuvering that helped set the terms for the Thatcher era. The opening episode, Who Pays Wins, traces Stirling from his wartime SAS command through a private mercenary and political influence operation built to counter what he saw as creeping socialism. Later episodes follow Slater's asset-stripping boom and bust, Goldsmith's takeover raids, and Rowland's business empire in Africa, using archival interviews and news footage rather than reenactment. Curtis's narration ties the four stories together into a single argument: that a small group of buccaneer capitalists, operating outside normal institutional constraints, gained outsized influence over Britain's economy as the country's traditional political power declined. The series won the BAFTA for Best Factual Series in 2000.