Conrad Black might be facing decades in the slammer but he has vowed to return in this interview on BBC Radio 4 which you can listen to here.

I'll be back, he says, no matter what happens. "I only have the background in two areas: publishing and finance. I think I could return to finance. I mean, this is not a difficult area to make money in ... This isn't a fall from grace and this isn't the end," he said. "Even in the worst case I will be back."

"This theory that it's a great rise and fall story, or some sort of Shakespearean or Greek tragedy and that I was misled by my wife and lived to extravagance - it's all nonsense".

And true to form, he insists he has not suffered a fall from grace. According to Black, it's just persecution.

Black will be sentenced on December 10.