The last of six programmes

Do we as a nation make the most of our front runners, do we even recognise them? Every British industry has some products that deserve to be winners. Products that make the best use of the skills of our workforce. It could be our advanced technology that marks them out; it could be straight ingenuity, or even, in a mass-produced world, sheer quality.
William Woollard and Judith Hann look at some of the implications for British industry underlying the stories told in this series of The Risk Business. Is it possible, perhaps, to draw up a strategy for success - a strategy based on recognising and exploiting our strengths rather than trying to prop up those industries particularly vulnerable to competition from the developing world?
Andrew Neil asks union leader Hugh Scanlon, and NEDO'S Sir Ronald McIntosh, whether Britain is making the most of her talent and whether industry is putting its money into the businesses which really can hold their own with the world's best.

BBC Manchester