The Business - 25/10/2009

Presented by Graham Stewart. With the news that Britain is still in recession, Professor David Bell of Stirling University and Peter Hughes, chief executive of Scottish Engineering, give us their assessment on whether the economy is still on track to return to growth by the turn of the year. The former boss of Kaupthing UK, Armann Thorvaldsson, tells us how much he thinks Iceland is to blame for the collapse of its banks a year ago. Ian Hamilton reports on whether modern developers are missing wider applications for their inventions. And the president and CEO of GE Oil and Gas, Claude Santiago, tells Steven Duff why there are reasons to be confident about the North Sea oil and gas sector.