Oliver Bullough’s latest book Butler to the World reveals how the UK’s Establishment has put itself at the service of the global super-rich, oligarchs, kleptocrats and gangsters. This is a snappy, polemical follow up to Money Land. Reviewing this, John le Carre urged that “Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it.” 

Alastair Laurence, who is curating this series, is a freelance documentary film maker who lives near Abergavenny. In recent years Alastair has made films about The Battle of the Somme, a history of British Photography and the poets John Betjeman, Philip Larkin and TS Eliot.