3: A Touch of Gold-plating Defence is the biggest business in Britain. It employs 750,000 people, making everything from socks to nuclear submarines
... from tanks to high-tec missiles. But the military passion for the brightest and best weapons systems our money can buy is driving the MoD's equipment costs remorselessly upwards. David Taylor reports on moves to cut out gold-plating by exposing the services to the cold draught of market forces.
Assistant producer CHARLES BRUCE Film editor
JOHN CHESWORTH-WIGGER Producers
STEVE ANDERSON , DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester