Inside the Factory
Inside the Factory is a documentary on BBC2. Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey hit factory floors across Britain for a snoop around their supersized production lines. What are the secrets behind our supermarket staples? The program has been available since 2023. A total of 34 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in July 2024.
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Inside the Factory
Gregg Wallace visits a factory making 432 million crumpets every year. Cherry Healey learns the science of making batter for pancakes, and Ruth Goodman reveals how crumpets got their bubbles.
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In Wigan, Gregg Wallace visits an enormous soup factory, which produces two million tins a day.
Gregg Wallace explores the Vale of Mowbray pork pie factory, which began making pork pies in 1928. Cherry Healey reveals hacks for the perfect vegan shortcrust pastry.
Gregg Wallace is in South Shields at a clothing factory where they produce 650 waxed jackets a day.
Gregg Wallace visits a factory that churns out 1.4 billion Jaffa Cakes a year, while Cherry Healey is in the city responsible for growing the fruit that gives these cakes their name.
Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get special access to a factory that makes as many as a hundred iconic yellow diggers every single day.
Gregg Wallace visits a colourful factory that produces 200,000 litres of paint and 10,000 metres of wallpaper every week.
Gregg Wallace visits an enormous factory in York to learn how millions of peppermint-flavoured bubbly chocolate bars are produced every year.
Gregg Wallace visits a huge carpet factory in Devon to learn how it weaves 46,000 square metres of carpet every year.
Gregg Wallace visits the colourful and fragrant Lush factory in Dorset to learn how an astonishing 14 million bath bombs are produced every year.
Gregg Wallace visits a huge brewery in Dublin to learn how two million litres of an iconic Irish stout are produced every day.
Gregg Wallace visits a food factory in Hertfordshire that produces 500 million parcels of stuffed pasta every year.
Gregg Wallace visits two factories in Italy and Wales to learn how denim cloth is made and then transformed into one of the world's most popular items of clothing - jeans.
Gregg Wallace visits a jelly beans factory in Dublin to reveal the astonishing processes used to make ten million of these colourful little sweets every day.
Gregg Wallace steps inside a huge Yorkshire puddings factory in Hull to learn how Aunt Bessie’s produces a staggering 500 million Yorkshire puddings every year.
Episodes 2023
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1:00:00Gregg Wallace visits a factory that churns out 50,000 litres of dairy ice cream a day, and Cherry Healey enlists an ice hockey team to test methods for stopping brain freeze.
1:00:00Gregg Wallace visits the Denby factory in Derbyshire - which has been making pottery since 1809 - to follow production of the Halo Heritage mug, one of the factory's best-sellers.
1:00:00Gregg Wallace visits the biggest tortilla factory in Europe, Cherry Healey takes on the hottest chilli in the world, and Ruth Goodman explores Elizabethan ruff collars.
1:00:00Gregg Wallace visits a boot factory in Northamptonshire to follow the production of a pair of Doc Martens.