of all the great names of british shipbuilding perhaps harland and wolff is the most famous of all a century ago the belfast spaceship boater also has shipyards on the clyde and liverpool bipartisan in derry on thousands of planes as well as no less than six here on the river thames. it's not the largest ship boat in the world it's certainly both the world's largest ships with the olympic class including the titanic partly launched in the belfast jetty before the great war the decline of the company much thought to british ship boating as a whole with effectively the entire industry not confined to military orders with little presence in any commercial shipping markets a world market now worth some two hundred fifty billion dollars on its peak how did wolf employed nearly forty thousand people in building a new creating ships not consolidated back in belfast it employs little more than one hundred people and has a boat to ship for more than a decade and specializes in stead in making bridges and offshore turbines however i new management is planning a comeback and in today's show we

shipping at the end of the nineteenth century to new in significance just a century later we think of harland and wolff as a famous belfast ship builder but essentially go they had charts on the quite as well as no less than six or pay arts here on the river thames but industry is long gone i've been onto engineering has taken the place of real engineering not in the twenty first century the u.k. government's grand leading to british ship building strategy is entirely focused on military ships while the world commercial shipping markets of two hundred fifty billion has been virtually abandoned to international competitors in this press programme we look initially at the views of m.p.'s on a cross party basis on whether the government will honor its commitments to sustaining a lifeline of military orders and we talked to the general secretary of the ship both in union who is galvanizing this cross party support to get the government's feet to the ship building fire over the next couple of weeks we've been talking to the people who actually run yards across the british isles and to some of the

of the world's most famous companies it's still sinking in to be fair alex i actually started in harland and wolff in one thousand nine hundred six as one of twenty five graduates in one hundred twenty apprentices all started in the same year as an experience for a young man as an engineer myself coming out of university you couldn't think of anything better shipbuilding was still in its boom we had three and a half thousand employees and the experience you got as a young man coming through it was just amazing unfortunately things changed all the way through and i had left for a period of twelve years and went to work in other industries in construction. in countries all around the world i came back about three and a half years ago and i think the one thing people had said was you know has to change much johnson and of course there were familiar faces there were familiar places so i said no what hadn't really but of course it had because we weren't the seam scale or size of company that we had been back in those days so you say but three thousand employees when you started but i mean how

in the book you incorporated harland coben on page 86.e him. >> uh-huh. >> i thought, you don't need to ask for permission to encorps -- incorporate us. john krasinski was here and said it was a thrill that you tweeted him about "the outsiders." you reach out and include them, just saying -- >> it's like you're asking me when did you stop beating your wife. a question that you can't really answer. but there is a character who is watching that other morning show. >> yes. yes. >> it's not on stage. it's off stage. we never -- it's not a big blurb for -- i'm sorry. >> it comes to a terrible end. let me ask you this question. you wrote once that if you do your job, your characters will come to life and start doing stuff on their own. did that happen here in this book? >> yeah, it did. you set up the situation. the person who is accused, the little league coach, is at the time that the murder takes place, he is at this english teacher's convention and actually taped watching harlan coben. his fingerprints, dna, all this other stuff -- >> and w

>> the call from my favorite nba broadcaster, kevin harland that was rookie of the year candidate donovanll with the strong putback to extend the utah jazz's lead over the houston rockets in game two last night. the jazz won, tied the series, game apiece, three is tomorrow night in utah. we've seen a lot of exciting playoff games this year in both the nba and the nhl, but the question is, is it translating into demand for tickets? we got a guy who knows a little bit about that jack groetzinger is the cofounder of seatgeek. i was surprised to see, by the way, that the nhl actually is the hotter ticket this year. >> yeah. you know, we saw that last year. >> where and why >> the very highest is in boston right now. the bruins and winnipeg with the jets as well and i think, you know, hockey is a sport that translates really well to going and seeing it live so we've actually always historically seen nhl playoff tickets a little bit higher than the nba. >> it's a very compressed game they don't break it up for commercials as much. you can go and get out intwo hours. it's a very different experi